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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has updated the Pharmacy Quality Scheme as part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) for 2020/21. This involves payments being made to community pharmacy contractors meeting certain gateway and quality criteria
CPSC strongly encourages contractors to read all of the NHS England guidance documents to ensure they are fully briefed on the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, initial plans for this year's PQS were suspended to free pharmacies to fully focus on the essential provision of medicines during that time. In July a new PQS was developed for pharmacy contractors to partcipate in, which focusses on the very new circumstances and different environment that all community pharmacies are now working in due to the ongoing COVID-19 risk.
Update July 2020: Part 1details published containing ESSENTIAL CRITERIA CHECKLIST
Update August 2020: Part 2 initial outline of requirements released
Update September 2020: Part 2 details and payment structure published
Below, we have produced referenced indexes for all other important PQS related information, documents and resources that we have uploaded into various CPSC news articles published:
- The indexes are automatically created in date order (newest at the top)
Further documents, detailed information and resources can be found on the following PSNC website hub page, with recommended PQS related actions required to achieve successful completion:
2019-2020
Recommended PQS related actions are contained in the following CPCF weekly updates:
PQS AUDITS 2019-2020
* NSAID audit now available (07/11/2019)
To achieve the PQS bundle payment you must complete the following:
Prior to 2019
Quality Payments Scheme - An introduction and what it means to contractors
Quality Payments Scheme support & resources from PSNC and publication of the NHS England guidance document for the February 2019 review date
Quality Payments Scheme learning resources from Pharmacy Complete
Pharmacy Complete HLP newsletter 2018.06 (QPS edition)
PSNC Guidance & Resources 2018.06
PSNC FAQs 2018.06
PSNC more FAQs 2018.06
PharmOutcomes framework for 2018.06
PSNC Quality Payments 2017-18 reconciliation payment estimate 2018.03
Quality Payments - Webinar
Updated guidance for existing HLPs
Quality Payments - First review period deadline approaching
