NHAIS Finance Development News - NHS Connecting for Health

Issue 40 – April 2011the application was issued to Wiltshire (requesting site) to commence pilot trial. Full nationalrelease is imminently anticipated.2.3 Outstanding enhancements required for New GMS Paymentswhich are approved as essential National ProgrammedevelopmentsThe following includes imminent legislative changes and other development proposals and CRswhich have been approved by the SPG and the SPUG.The following two CRs, CR 1231 and CR 1261 raised by Welsh Agency sites were documentedin detail in previous issues of this Newsletter. Both concern provision of payments facilities fromPCOs directly into GP Practice Bank Accounts. These CRs have now been re-assigned intowork-package 13 but are likely to be withdrawn, depending on decision by the SPUG as theremoval of PCTs as proposed by the White Paper removes any need for PCT level paymentsas proposed by these CRs.2.3.1 CR 1231 – Extend the existing FJ-BACS application to supportnomination of multiple PCT Bank Accounts (by page-on on HGscreen) – and also allow payments directly from these accountsSubject to decision by the SPUG – but cannot be justified against removal of PCTs from April2013, as proposed under White Paper changes.2.3.2 CR 1261 – Builds and depends upon delivery of CR 1231 (Paymentsdirectly from PCTs) and extends this to include BACS Stand Alone (BAand BP applications) and also payments to Pharmacists (FJ-PMPP) –still used by the Welsh Payments AgenciesSubject to decision by the SPUG – but cannot be justified against removal of PCTs from April2013, as proposed under White Paper changes.The following CRs, 1258 and 1270 are approved by the SPUG and await resource allocation tocommence development.2.3.3 CR 1258 – This proposes a change within FJ-NMPP processing toensure that Drugs Payments where both Drugs Paid and DispensingFees are set to ‘N’ (don’t pay) have the full payment recorded as zero,ignoring any negative claw-back amounts accruing from PrescriptionChargesPMS Practice contract set-up (previously on the PF screen) has always included the option toomit payments for Drugs Costs (Drugs Paid) and/or Dispensing Fees, On Cost and Oxygen.Roll-out of Single Payment Phase 2 in March 2010 has now replaced the recording of PMSContracts on the PF screen with a new /*B Qualifier Suffix on the ED screen. An example of theED screen showing Drugs Paid and Dispensing Fees both set to ‘N’ is shown below:© Crown Copyright 19