There are not many discounts available on most of the nutritional feed sips that practices are being
asked to prescribe. Often these products are being dispensed at a loss, unless you utilise the additional
dispensing fees which may be available.
If you dispense a selection of assorted flavours to your patients to ensure patient compliance and
satisfaction, ensure you add Assorted Flavours to the main body of the script. It is important that
you ensure your GPs are prescribing assorted flavours for those patients who prefer a mixture, so
the maximum number of dispensing fees can be claimed. If you prescribe starter packs, then you
will automatically get 4-6 dispensing fees depending upon which brand of nutritional supplement
you prescribe. The rule of thumb should be – all nutritional supplements must either be prescribed
as “starter packs”, named flavours (strawberry, mocha etc) or “assorted flavours” within the main
body of the script. If they do NOT and you dispense assorted, only ONE dispensing fee will be
reimbursed! If you add Assorted Flavours to the main body of the script, there is no need to list the
flavours in the Endorsement column on the left-hand side.
Please note: according to the NHSBSA flavours not specified is NOT an indication of assorted
flavours and you will only get one dispensing fee.
The following highlights the number of Dispensing Fees paid, but only if Assorted Flavours is in the
main body of the script: (the full list can be found on the Dispex Brand Comparisons webpage). There
are very few Nutritional Sips which offer Discount. A list of Nutritional Sips which currently offers
discount is available for Dispex members on the Brand Comparisons webpage.
