URGENT ACTION: Are you meeting gateway criteria?

Published: Fri, 11/19/21

URGENT ACTION

19 November 2021

Are you meeting gateway criteria?

Dear Member,

In order for you to qualify for any payment in the Pharmacy Quality Scheme you must ensure you are meeting gateway criteria. If you do not meet any component you will not qualify for ANY payment.

Gateway Criteria includes:
1.   Must have claimed for a minimum of 20 New Medicines Service (NMS) between 1st April 2021 – 5th January 2022 (see our email from 1/09/2021)
2.   Patient safety requirements (see our email from 9/11/2021)
3.   Risk review (PharmaPlus guidance coming soon)

For the NMS criteria you must ACT NOW to ensure you meet this. You must have completed 20 NMS by 31st December 2021.

What you need to do:

1). Check the NHSBSA NMS spreadsheet to see if you are currently meeting the criterion.
a. Scroll down to the ‘New Medicines Service (NMS) gateway criterion’ section.
b. Download the spreadsheet & check if you are meeting this criterion.

2).   If you are NOT meeting the criterion then you must start providing the service now. It can take 3 to 4 weeks to complete an NMS and this must be done by end of December.
      a.   There are plenty of opportunities with the expansion in conditions and the catch up NMS programme.
      b.   View our NMS guide for more detailed information (see attached).

3). You must claim for your NMS using your FP34C month end claim.

As always, if you require any further support please contact the PharmaPlus team.

Regards,

PharmaPlus

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