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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 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:
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 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:
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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