| Capacity Improvement
Programme - Information for Contractors
Since March 2007, the NHS Business
Services Authority Prescription Pricing Division (PPD)
has been gradually introducing re-engineered systems
to process a number of prescriptions submitted by pharmacies
for reimbursement. This Capacity Improvement Programme
(CIP) has been designed to modernise the way in which
prescription data is captured and to subsequently improve
the service that we are able to offer to all our stakeholders.
Only a limited number of pharmacy accounts are currently
being processed through CIP. If you have not received
a letter notifying you otherwise, your account will
not yet be being processed through CIP, and there is
no requirement for you to do anything different with
your submission of prescriptions.
Over the next 12-18 months, it is intended that PPD
will gradually move all Pharmacy accounts over to CIP
processing. You will be informed of how and when this
will affect you by letter at that time. In the meantime,
please continue to sort your FP10 prescriptions as you
have always done, and in accordance with the guidance
contained on the FP34C.
For Accounts being processed
through CIP
For those pharmacies that have received
a letter informing them that their dispensed prescriptions
are to be processed through CIP, the guidance regarding
revised sorting instructions contained within that letter
still applies. Namely, CIP contractors should sort separately
-
- Any prescriptions where broken bulk
is claimed.
- Any calendar pack prescriptions
where the quantity ordered differs from the pack size,
and the prescribed quantity is supplied.
For any queries regarding CIP and its
impact on your pharmacy account, please feel free to
contact our helpdesk on 0845 6101171. |
