PCT Reports

The PCT Reports suite consists of three reports for monitoring prescribing against national comparators and for monitoring new initiatives such as repeat dispensing and non-FP10 supply by out of hours care providers.

The PCT Prescribing Report

The quarterly PCT Prescribing Report allows the PCT Board and their prescribing advisor to compare and measure their prescribing performance against Strategic Health Authority and National comparators in order to determine and manage their overall performance.

The report is presented in three sections:

• Section 1 describes the trends and current position of prescribing within the PCT in terms of both cost and volume. This is based on chapters and sections in the British National Formulary (BNF). Actual values and growth from the same quarter in the previous year is provided for the PCT, SHA and England.



• Section 2 examines an area of prescribing which has been identified as a current area of concern or driver of growth for primary care. This is intended to cover areas such as DH policy statements, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance and implementation of National Service Frameworks (NSFs).



• Section 3 is intended as a reference source to information. It includes contact details for the collaborating organisations and useful web site addresses.

The report is provided electronically to all PCTs on a financial quarter basis. The data is available two months after the quarter end. The recipients of the reports will receive an e-mail notification, alerting them that the report is available, containing a hyperlink to the PPD website, www.ppa.nhs.uk.

When accessing the report they will be required to use their personal username and password to gain access to their information. This can then be viewed on-line, saved as a PDF file or printed locally.

Repeat Dispensing Report

PCT pharmaceutical advisors can access a monthly Repeat Dispensing report, which shows for each practice and prescriber, the total cost and number of items prescribed under the Repeat Dispensing initiative forms compared to the total cost and number of items of general prescribing.

Out of Hours Care (OOHC) Non-FP10 Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) Report

An Out of Hours Provider can supply drugs, dressings, etc from stock based on a Patient Group Direction (PGD). This is known as non-FP10 supply. A non-FP10 prescription form is used and submitted to the PPD for the capture and reporting of this information.

The PCT OOHC NIC report shows the monthly and cumulative costs of non-FP10 supply by each OOHC provider in the PCT.

The National OOHC NIC report shows the monthly and cumulative costs of non-FP10 information by PCT.