Contractor Activity - 2020
Information relating to Community Pharmacy activity and the direct pharmaceutical care services they provide.
2020 data by month is shown for each contractor for the following:
Overall dispensing activity
Minor Ailments Service
Medicines: Care and Review Service
Emergency Hormonal Contraception service
Smoking Cessations Service
Methadone dispensing
Please note: Data in this release was revised and updated on 8 December 2020. For data for January to June 2020 it was found that changes in payment processing meant that monthly cost data for the Chronic Medication Service was not fully reported. For example, for data for March 2020 the total Chronic Medication Service payment was reported as £489,617, the correct figure was £3,003,147. On average per Community Pharmacy the payment was reported as £390, the average figure for corrected data was £2,385. Note that the Final Payments measure is calculated separately and was not affected by this error, and the Chronic Medication Service payment represented 2.3% of the Final Payments to Community Pharmacies for March 2020.
Please note also that for data for 2020, data on the Chronic Medication Service has been renamed to reflect the service being updated to the Medicines: Care and Review Service. Data column names for data on registrations, items and payments have been updated, please see the Data Dictionary below.
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Data Dictionary
| Column | Type | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| PaidDateMonth | numeric | The month in which the prescription item was processed by the Data Capture Validation and Pricing system (YYYYMM) | |
| Contractor | numeric | A code to identify a dispensing individual. Codes are unique across dispenser types and are banded according to NHS Board | |
| NumberOfPaidItems | numeric | The number of prescription items dispensed and for which the dispenser has been reimbursed | |
| GrossIngredientCost | numeric | The Gross Ingredient Cost (GIC) is the reimbursement cost for the paid quantity based upon the NHS basic price as listed in the Scottish drug tariff or manufacturer’s price list | |
| MASItems | numeric | Number of items paid through Minor Ailments Service (MAS) | |
| MASRegistrations | numeric | Actual number of patients registered for Minor Ailments Service (MAS) | |
| MASCapitationPayment | numeric | Capitation Payment (£) for Minor Ailments Scheme (MAS). This is based on the number of patients registered for current month, plus any adjustment for the previous month | |
| MCRItems | numeric | Number of items paid through Medicines: Care and Review Service. Note that this field was previously named CMSItems (for the Chronic Medication Service) and was updated on 8th December 2020. | |
| MCRRegistrations | numeric | Actual number of patients registered for Medicines: Care and Review Service. Note that this field was previously named CMSRegistrations (for the Chronic Medication Service) and was updated on 8th December 2020. | |
| MedicinesCareandReviewPayment | numeric | Capitation Payment (£) for providing Medicines: Care and Review Service. Note that this field was previously named CMSCapitationPayment (for the Chronic Medication Service) and was updated on 8th December 2020. | |
| EHCItems | numeric | Number of items paid through Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) service | |
| SmokingCessationItems | numeric | Number of items paid through Smoking Cessations Service | |
| SmokingCessationPayment | numeric | Payment (£) for providing Smoking Cessations Service | |
| InstalmentDispensings | numeric | The number of instalment dispensings for which the dispenser has claimed for and has been reimbursed | |
| MethadoneDispensingFeeNumber | numeric | Number of methadone dispensing fees | |
| MethadoneDispensingFeeRate | numeric | Methadone dispensing fee rate (£), where advised | |
| SupervisedDispensingFeeNumber | numeric | Number of supervised dispensing fees | |
| SupervisionFeeRate | numeric | Rate of supervised dispensing fees (£), where advised | |
| FinalPayments | numeric | Total payment (£) made to the contractor |
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | March 9, 2021 |
| Metadata last updated | June 9, 2020 |
| Created | June 9, 2020 |
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