PSNC agrees transitional methadone payments for hardest hit pharmacies

wow!

Just think - this is supposed to be a "cost neutral simplification" imagine what they could do if they tried to reduce fees and make it complicated!!

PSNC are not fit for purpose, the only negotiating committee who are actually damaging the very people who they speak on behalf of. I bet those at the top of the PSNC will be the toast of the Dept of Health for doing a wonderful job and who knows they may even get knighted in the end ( may be the only way to get rid of this bunch).

The NHS PS cant pay contractors correctly at the moment so to trust them to work out who is eligible for this new transitional payment seems odd.

Obviously, I along with many other independent contractors who dispense to a large number of methadone patients have been well and truley shafted (only word I can think of to describe the impact it is going to have on my pharmacy).

I have little hope for pharmacy in general if the PSNC are to continue our negotiations.
Are the PSNC the dept of health in disguise? or are the dept of health the PSNC in disguise?

This is just the beginning, believe me more pain is to come from the PSNC and it will filter down to everyone who works in a pharmacy, eventually reducing wages and good people losing jobs because our guardians the PSNC are too scared to ask the dept of health for renuminarations for services we are providing rather then proposing real term cuts and passing them of as simplifications. ( I think they think we have our heads stuck in the ground)

I'm pretty good with my maths, but even I find this methadone "simplification" system very difficult to understand.

How's it going with the legal action??? You will have a lot of supporters (methadone dispensing and non-dispensing pharmacies alike).

psnc are not negotiating . they give in besides methadone payments we are losing out big time on broken bulk as well. we have not only given up trying to get b/b on dressings we are now losing out on any items under £50. so if you get a script for 10 tabs of a drug costing 49£ per 100 and you will not use it again you are £43 out of pocket. we lose on ensure as we cant get a discount on it from aah. we LOSE all the time. if the psnc cant negotiate we need to get a change at the top. or we should renegotiate their salaries down along with our income going down.

Talk of the devil, there is a new item we had today where the item is packed in 60 sachets, but only 10 was on prescription. The 60 sachets are £41 for the box, so with the broken bulk taken away, we will lose money!

I will clarify with PSNC or NPA on Monday (have put it with the page 6 from July 2012 Drug Tariff)....