Archive for General news
Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS)
MDS systems can be known by several other names, but ultimately they all mean the same thing……. Nomad Trays Blister packs Multi Compartment Compliance Aids Dossette Boxes Are all disposable...
PCN Training Funding for 2024-2025!!
Leadership and Management Training Funding The 2024-25 PCN DES contract specification allows for a Leadership and Management payment, but this is now combined into the core PCN Funding. Please click...
Nutritional Supplements Assorted Flavours
By Dispex Missed Dispensing Fees for Services Rendered If you kindly extend a selection of assorted flavours to your patients to ensure patient compliance and satisfaction, ensure you are compensated...
Prescription Fee Increase
By Dispex NHS Prescription Charges from 1st May 2024 Charges for NHS prescriptions increased on the 1st May 2024. The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations...
AI tools: A Practice Manager’s friend or foe?
Source: Practice Index 25th April 2024 In recent years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence or AI-powered applications has brought about a transformative wave across various industries, and healthcare is...
Practice funding rise – An affordable and acceptable uplift?
Source: Practice Index 18.4.24 Another funding storm is on the horizon with the recently announced rise in national practice contract funding for England. For all the people working in general...
Understanding Prescription Charges: Part 1-4
Understanding the PCSE Online Drug Statement Keeping a watchful eye on your PCSE drug statements and prescription charges has always been an important aspect of best practice. However, in...
Duty of candour review
Source: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) The DHSC is to review the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers in England following reports that...
UPDATE: Hormone Replacement Therapy on PPC
HRT Prescribing For PPCs – GP IT update Source: Community Pharmacy England As announced in the NHS Primary Care bulletin (published 14 March 2024), over half of GP surgeries...
Dispex Data – are you using it to its full potential?
Profitability Tools At Dispex, we pride ourselves in the quality and quantity of data we provide to dispensing doctors so that they can improve their dispensary profitability. All the relevant...
Drug Tariff Changes
Each month we publish Additions and Deletions from the Drug Tariff that affect Dispensing doctors. In addition, we sift through the Drug Changes to highlight commonly dispensed items, looking at...
The DES Specification Contract has been announced: Training Funding!!
Leadership and Management Training Funding The 2024-25 PCN DES contract specification allows for a Leadership and Management payment, but this is now combined into the core PCN Funding. Please click...
