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Pharmacy Quality Payments report

PharmData tracks numbers of prescription items, MURs, NMS, EPS nominations and more for all NHS community pharmacies in the UK. We also track Quality Payments for all pharmacies in England and this page is a summary of our analysis for the 2019, 2018 and 2017 data.


Search for a pharmacy to see all statistics including their Quality Payments score:

April 2017

0

...the number of pharmacies that fulfilled the gateway criteria to participate in the scheme. 97 pharmacies did not fulfil these criteria.

0 out of 72.5

The average number of points achieved by each pharmacy that fulfilled the gateway criteria. Each point is expected to be worth £64, making the average pharmacy payout £2,880

0

...the number of pharmacies who achieved a maximum score of 72.5 points, estimated at £4,640 of additional funding. This represents less than 10% of all pharmacies taking part in the scheme.


November 2017

0

...the number of pharmacies that fulfilled the gateway criteria to participate in the scheme. 110 pharmacies did not fulfil these criteria.

0 out of 72.5

The average number of points achieved by each pharmacy that fulfilled the gateway criteria.

0

...the number of pharmacies who achieved a maximum score of 72.5 points. This represents more than 77% of all pharmacies taking part in the scheme.


June 2018

0

...the number of pharmacies that fulfilled the gateway criteria to participate in the scheme. 39 pharmacies did not fulfil these criteria.

0 out of 72.5

The average number of points achieved by each pharmacy that fulfilled the gateway criteria. With £37.5m funding agreed for this review point, that equates to a payment of £50.88 per point, and an average pharmacy payment of £3,482.

0

...the number of pharmacies who achieved a maximum score of 72.5 points. This represents just under 80% of all pharmacies taking part in the scheme.


February 2019

0

...the number of pharmacies that fulfilled the gateway criteria to participate in the scheme. 1,032 pharmacies did not fulfil these criteria (or chose not to take part in the scheme).

0 out of 100

The average number of points achieved by each pharmacy that fulfilled the gateway criteria. With £37.5m funding agreed for this review point, that equates to a payment of £36.34 per point, and an average pharmacy payment of £3,512.

0

...the number of pharmacies who achieved a maximum score of 100 points. This represents just under 87% of all pharmacies taking part in the scheme.


Pharmacy2u Quality Payments

Feb 2019
Gateway criteria This pharmacy fulfilled the QP gateway criteria
Patient safety report +20 points
Risk management +20 points
NSAID audit +20 points
Healthy Living Pharmacy
NHS 111 Directory of Services +2.5 points
Asthma audit +20 points
Dementia friends
Total 82.5 out of 100
Jun 2018
Gateway criteria This pharmacy fulfilled the QP gateway criteria
Patient safety report +20 points
Safeguarding +5 points
Community Pharmacy Patient Questionnaire +5 points
Healthy Living Pharmacy
SCR usage +5 points
NHS 111 Directory of Services +2.5 points
Asthma audit +10 points
Dementia friends
Total 47.5 out of 72.5
Apr 2017 Nov 2017
Gateway criteria This pharmacy fulfilled the QP gateway criteria This pharmacy fulfilled the QP gateway criteria
Patient safety report +20 points +20 points
Safeguarding +5 points +5 points
Community Pharmacy Patient Questionnaire +5 points +5 points
Healthy Living Pharmacy
SCR usage
NHS 111 Directory of Services +2.5 points
Asthma audit +10 points +10 points
Dementia friends
Total 42.5 out of 72.5 40 out of 72.5
Pharmacy2u achieved a final Quality Payments score of 62.5 out of 100 points.

Pharmacy performance by quality area

Percentage of pharmacies who claimed a particular criterion after already passing the gateway criteria.

Criterion Points value (Feb 2019) % of pharmacies attaining (Feb 19) % of pharmacies attaining (Jun 18)
Patient safety report20
98%
98%
Risk management20
98%
n/a
NSAID audit20
98%
n/a
Healthy Living Pharmacy15
89%
88%
NHS 111 Directory of Services2.5
99%
99%
Asthma audit20
97%
96%
Dementia friends5
99%
99%

Comparison of pharmacy multiples

Please note that estimations of average number of QP points for pharmacy multiples are approximate only. Please contact us to discuss further!


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