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PharmData tracks data on a range of NHS pharmacy reimbursement, including the temporary safeguarding payment arrangements put in place where a pharmacy contractor’s dispensing business is negatively affected if prescribers systematically increase prescription duration length on a significant proportion of their prescription items, due to direct or indirect coercion by the local CCG.
Want to know if your pharmacy or pharmacies have potential claims under the Temporary Safeguarding Payments scheme? Try the PharmData TSP service for free
Not to be confused with safeguarding (protecting vulnerable people from harm and abuse), temporary safeguarding payments are a scheme laid out in part XIVC of the Drug Tariff to allow for payments to be made to contractors in England who have suffered from local prescribers increasing the prescription duration on a large proportion of prescriptions; for example, if a local GP surgery were to move from 28-day prescribing to 56-day prescriptions or 90-day prescriptions.
There are 2 types of temporary safeguarding payments available:
For more information on the scheme, visit the PSNC page on temporary safeguarding payments
Be careful! Submitting a type 2 claim to NHSBSA will lead to them calculating what money, if any, you might be owed due to a reduced number of items being dispensed compared to what was expected. However, if they determine that you dispensed more items than would be expected, you might receive a negative payment instead!
To see if your pharmacy might be eligible for a claim under the Temporary Safeguarding Payments scheme, try the PharmData TSP service.
| Total remuneration | Pharmacy |
|---|---|
| £99,351 | CLAREPHARM LIMITED (FP995) CLAREMONT GROVE, EX8 2JW |
| £81,659 | LINCOLN CO-OP CHEMISTS LTD (FJX51) 5 PROCTORS ROAD, LN2 4LA |
| £78,718 | WELL (FP823) 10 PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, NE34 8PS |
| £76,481 | COHENS CHEMIST (FXP85) WATERS GREEN MEDICAL CTR, SUNDERLAND STREET, SK11 6JL |
| £68,289 | COHENS CHEMIST (FG314) NORTH ORMESBY HTH VILLAGE, 9 TRINITY MEWS, N.ORMESBY, TS3 6AL |
| £65,636 | WOODHOUSE PHARMACY (FNX07) 1 MARKET SQUARE, WOODHOUSE, S13 7JX |
| £64,678 | COHENS CHEMIST (FA419) FRESHNEY GREEN PCC, SORRELL ROAD, DN34 4GB |
| £63,896 | COHENS CHEMIST (FWW83) 4 DICKSON HOUSE, CROWN HEIGHTS,ALENCON LNK, RG21 7AH |
| £63,764 | COHENS CHEMIST (FMD55) 12-13 MARIAN SQUARE, GLOVERS LANE, L30 5QA |
| £60,862 | COHENS CHEMIST (FW861) THE HEALTH CENTRE, HOLME LANE, CROSSHILLS, BD20 7LG |
Our TSP tool estimated that up to 3,427 pharmacies could have had potential TSP claims for that month. To see potential claims for your pharmacy, try out our TSP tool for free.
