NMS forms part of the Advanced Services within the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF).
This service provides support to people who are newly prescribed a medicine to manage a long-term condition (LTC). This will generally help them to appropriately improve their medication adherence and self-manage their LTC.
Read more information in the Advance Service Specification – NHS New Medicine Service.
NMS monthly payment
From April 2025, a monthly payment will be paid for each completed intervention consultation and each completed follow-up consultation. The fee per consultation will be £14.
The number of NMS consultations interventions is subject to an overall cap of 1% of monthly prescriptions. This can be found in Table 1 of Part VIC of the Drug Tariff.
Claiming
Claims must be made using the manage your service (MYS) portal no later than the fifth of the following month.
NMS claim figures
You can view your NMS figures on your Schedule of Payments.
You can also view the NMS figures on the Information Services section of the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) website.
You can search for your pharmacy using ‘Ctrl and F’ and enter your OCS code into the search box.
The NMS figure for that month is shown in column S.
The information is collated from the monthly submissions made by pharmacy contractors. The information is available after the payment schedules have been sent for the dispensing month.