| Notes
to Prescribers
| Changing
Practice |
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If
you are a prescribing only GP and you change practice
mid-month your prescriptions will be accredited
to your old practice until the end of the month
in which the PPA was notified of the move by your
PCT. From the start of the following dispensing
month prescriptions are accredited to your new practice.
Note: if the PPA receive late notification of
changes from your PCT, it may affect your prescribing
reports.
If you move mid-month to a dispensing practice,
prescriptions written after the changeover date
will be normally accredited to your new practice.
However, if the PPA receives late notification,
the change will be effected after the changeover
date.
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| Deputising
Services |
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Deputising
services have been instructed by the Department
of Health that they should use prescription forms
that have been stamped with the PCT identifier and
an L. At the time of prescribing, the deputising
doctor should add the identification number of the
appropriate GP, e.g. the patient’s normal
GP; this enables the deputising doctor's prescribing
to be allocated to the correct practice. Prescribing
by deputising doctors is not included with the GP's
details, but is aggregated at practice level. If
the GP identification number is not provided practice
information on reports will be incomplete. |
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| Prescriber
Identification Number |
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Your
PACT reports are based on the data from all prescription
forms that bear your prescriber identification number.
Therefore if reports are to reflect individual prescribing
accurately, each prescriber in your practice should
use the correct prescriber code. |
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| Personalised
Prescription Forms |
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The
PPA supplies prescriber information to ASTRON for
personalisation of printed prescriptions. This information
needs to be as up to date as possible as the PPA
relies on timely notification of new/amended data
from prescriber organisations. |
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| Prescriptions
included in reports |
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The
Department of Health requires the PPA, to issue
PMD (Practice Prescribing Statements) by a defined
date each month. This ensures that statements are
issued to all practices and PCTs in time to monitor
expenditure to date. In order to accomplish this,
and to ensure that details provided from all reports
for the same period will reconcile, PACT reports
and the PMD (Practice Prescribing Statement) are
based on prescriptions dispensed, received and processed
by the PPA for a whole calendar month. PACT
reports and the PMD (Practice Prescribing Statement)
include details of prescriptions written by you,
and other prescribers on behalf of your patients,
which have been dispensed and submitted for reimbursement
in England, Scotland and Wales. These details
are collected from the prescription forms submitted
to the PPA by pharmacists, appliance contractors,
dispensing GPs and GPs who have personally administered
items.
If
you are a dispensing GP, your prescribing reports,
i.e. PACT Standard Report, PACT Prescribing Catalogue
and the PMD (Practice Prescribing Statement),
will also include details of your prescriptions,
which have been dispensed away from your practice
dispensary. Your dispensing report, i.e. the PACT
Dispensing Catalogue, will only include details
of prescriptions prescribed by you and dispensed
within your practice dispensary.
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| Salaried
GP |
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A
doctor who is employed as a GP on a salaried basis
by either a GP practice under the salaried doctor’s
scheme (ref. FHSL (97) 46) or by a PMS pilot.
Salaried GPs will receive the same information as
GPs who are members of a partnership. |
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| Trainee(s)/
GP Registrar(s) |
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Trainee/GP
Registrar figures are for all prescribing which
is identified by a ‘D’ in red ink alongside
the GP identification number on the prescription
form. |
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Walk-In Centre |
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If
you are a GP prescribing in a WIC, you will do so
with a unique code allocated by the PPA. This code
will appear on the GP prescription pad for the WIC,
and therefore may also be used by other GPs. You
should ensure that if you have a prescription pad
with your own GP identification number, you do not
use this when prescribing for patients in the WIC
as the prescribing costs will be attributed to your
other practice. Practice nurses and community nurses
may prescribe in a WIC but both must use the nurse
prescription form (FP10P). They should ensure that
they use a prescription pad which is personalised
with their own nurse PIN number and correct WIC
practice identification number. PMD (Practice Prescribing
Statements) and PACT Catalogue reports will be available
for the WIC. |
Further
Advice for Prescribers
England
General
queries
For general queries relating to Prescribing Analysis
Reports, Practice Detailed Prescribing Information report,
Prescribing Catalogue reports and your PMD
– Practice Prescribing Statement(s), the Help
Desk should be contacted by telephoning 0191 203 5050,
emailing help@ppa.nhs.uk
or by writing to:
Help
Desk
Prescription Pricing Authority
Block B, Scottish Life House
Archbold Terrace
Jesmond
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1DB
Interpreting
your reports
If you would like advice on interpreting your reports,
your PCT professional adviser should be approached in
the first instance. If they are unable to help, the
Senior Manager Prescribing Services, Dr Helen Kendall,
can be contacted in writing at this address:
Prescription
Pricing Authority
Bridge House
152 Pilgrim Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6SN
or by email: helen.kendall@ppa.nhs.uk
Isle of Man
Requests
For general queries relating to Prescribing Analysis
Reports, Prescribing Catalogues and your PMD
– Practice Prescribing Statement(s), the Help
Desk should be contacted by telephoning 0191 203 5050,
emailing help@ppa.nhs.uk
or by writing to:
Help
Desk
Prescription Pricing Authority
Block B, Scottish Life House
Archbold Terrace
Jesmond
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1DB
Missing
reports
If your Prescribing Analysis Reports, Prescribing
Catalogues and your PMD – Practice
Prescribing Statement has gone missing, Prescriber Information
should be contacted either by telephoning 0191 203 5110
or by writing to:
Prescriber
Information
Prescription Pricing Authority
Block B, Scottish Life House
Archbold Terrace
Jesmond
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1DB
Interpreting
your reports
If you would like advice on interpreting your reports,
your PCT professional adviser should be approached in
the first instance. If they are unable to help, the
Senior Manager Prescribing Services, Dr Helen Kendall,
can be contacted in writing at this address:
Prescription
Pricing Authority
Bridge House
152 Pilgrim Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6SN
or by email: helen.kendall@ppa.nhs.uk
Jersey
General
queries and interpreting your reports
For general queries relating to Prescribing Analysis
Reports, Prescribing Catalogues reports, for example
missing reports, or if you would like advice on interpreting
your reports, your JSSD Health Administrator should
be approached in the first instance. If they are unable
to resolve the query, they will forward the enquiry
to the PPA on your behalf.
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