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Prescribing, Dispensing & Financial Management Services (PDFM)
The single point of access for receiving and accessing a range of reports for PCT, SHA and National users from the PPA website, www.ppa.nhs.uk
Itemised Prescribing Payment Report (IPP)
A report for Finance Officers, Pharmaceutical and Prescribing Advisors showing the monthly apportionment of each month's national cash limited elements of prescriptions dispensed. The report is used to adjust the proportion of the payment already charged to a Primary Care Trust at the beginning of the month, to ensure a fair distribution, based on their level of prescribing, and to calculate the initial shares for the following month's disbursement.
Data within the IPP report is updated on a monthly basis. There are 13 months of historical IPP reports available.
The report shows the prescribing costs for the appropriate reporting organisation on all cash limited elements of prescribing. The figures shown on the report are based on actual cost and can be broken down into the following elements:
- GP/practice nurse prescribing
- Share of unidentified GP/practice prescribing
- Share of unidentified deputising service prescribing
- Community Unit/PCT nurse prescribing
- Adjustment to charge statements
- Share of lost batches
- Share of National Reallocation Factor
- Elements for which resources have been retained centrally (costs not directly attributed to a PCT e.g. VAT, dental prescriptions, National unidentified prescriptions etc.)
- Local payments
- Practice Payments
- Medicines Use Reviews
Each element reported is based on 20% of the previous month's costs and 80% of the current month's costs. This reflects the actual payment made to contractors, which is made up of an 80% advance on the current month's registration and the balance from the previous month's payment.
The recipients of this report are:
- Department of Health
- Strategic Health Authorities
- Primary Care Trusts
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