DRUG TARIFF

Question 1

What is a drug tariff?

Answer 1

• Sets standards and payments for drugs and appliances
• Little info on drugs and detailed information on appliances
• Sent free to pharmacy contractors and upon request of GPs
• Tells you how much pharmacy will be paid and how much patient should pay

Question 2

What can an FP10 prescription contain

Answer 2

Dressings, Appliances, Reagents, Drugs, Food, Cosmetics, Toiletries
- Cannot contain blacklisted items

Question 3

What is a black list

Answer 3

• Restricts prescribing of medicines of some proprietary products and products of limited efficacy
• If generic drug itself is not black listed some brands of the generic drug may be dispensed

Question 4

Pricing for special containers

Answer 4

Payment is based on the number of packs nearest to the quantity ordered

Question 5

What is the halfway pack rule

Answer 5

• If quantity ordered falls halfway between two packs, you must dispense the lower number of packs
• Does not apply to oral liquid antibiotics

Question 6

What does the advisory committee on borderline substances do?

Answer 6

• Advises DH on whether food or toiletry item can be classified as drugs in certain circumstances
• ACBS prescriptions are not checked
• Pharmacist always paid even if doctor has not endorsed prescription as ACBS

Question 7

What is an SLS

Answer 7

• Drug prescribed under certain circumstances
• May only be prescribed for patient type and indication listed for that drug
• Prescriber must endorse with SLS

Question 8

What are the four gateway criteria

Answer 8

• Contractors must meet this on the day they make their declaration for PQS payment
• This alone will not get the payment
  1. Advanced services - NMS and NHS community pharmacy seasonal influenza vaccination services offered at pharmacy
  2. NHSmail - Must have two live linked accounts to NHSmail which sends and receives NHSmail
  3. NHS website - Update NHS website profile with opening hours and public holidays
  4. Safeguarding level 2 - 80% of registered pharmacy professionals must have level 2 safeguarding status of dealing with children and vulnerable adults in the last 2 years prior to declaration

Question 9

Achieving quality criteria

Answer 9

Contractors need to achieve all criterias within a domain to recieve payment for domain.
There are six domains and contractor can achieve as many domains as they wish

Question 10

What are the six domains

Answer 10

1. Risk management and safety
2. Medicines safety audit quality and outcomes framework (QOF) quality improvement (QI) module
3. Prevention
4. Primary care networks
5. Asthma
6. Digital enablers