Health Solutions Wales

In general, community pharmacies will purchase most of the items they dispense via one or two local wholesalers. In return for this business, wholesalers will provide a discount on the cost of the items to the pharmacy. As pharmacies will be reimbursed the cost of the medication via the Prescription Pricing Division or Health Solutions Wales, a deduction percentage is applied to the items being reimbursed. This aims to prevent the NHS having to pay more for any prescription items than the pharmacy contractor paid the wholesaler. This deduction is based on a scale, set against the monthly total of the price of the items dispensed. Details of this scale can be found in Part V. 

Finally, once the prescription item(s) have been passed to the patient or the patient s representative, the pharmacist or pharmacy technician should confirm that the prescription form has been endorsed properly (to ensure that the pharmacy will be correctly reimbursed and remunerated for the supply - see Section 2.4.1, Part IIIA) and the prescription form can then be filed ready for submission at the end of the month. In England, this will be to the Prescription Pricing Division (PPD) of the NHS Business Services Authority in Northern Ireland, the Central Services Agency in Scotland, Practitioner Services Division (PSD) of NHS National Services Scotland and in Wales, Health Solutions Wales (HSW). 

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