NHS Care Services

Public Health Service

Specification and Remuneration

Read the full PHS core service specification here.

Read the full PHS Smoking Cessation service specification here.

Read the full PHS Sexual Health service specification here.

Latest PHS Circulars and Directions

PCA(P) (2008)17 Additional Pharmaceutical Services Minor Ailment Service and Public Health Service Specifications and Payment Arrangements

Read the full PHS Directions here.

Previous PHS Circulars and Directions

PCA(P)(2008)5 Community Pharmacy Remuneration 2007-8: Public Health Service Tier 2 Supplementary Payment.

PCA(P)(2007)16 New Community Pharmacy Contract: Public Health Service, Tier 2 Arrangements.

PCA(P)(2007)26 National Health Service Scotland Act 1978 Health Board Additional Pharmaceutical Services (Public Health Service)(Scotland) Directions 2007.

PCA(P)(2006)12 National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 Health Board Additional Pharmaceutical Services (Public Health Service) (Scotland) Directions 2006.

Remuneration

The Scottish Government circular PCA (P) (2010) 15 outlined the funding for PHS from May 2010. Remuneration for the core service has been reduced to £250 per month from 1st May 2010.

The funding for the two patient PHS services has been agreed as follows:

Sexual Health Services

EHC Service

• Payment of £25 per EHC Intervention

• Reimbursement for Levonorgestrel prescribed using CPUS Prescription form

• Contractors should remember to prescribe either Levonorgestrel 1500mcg or Levonelle 1500 to ensure payment for medicine supply

Chlamydia Testing and Treatment Service

• A monthly availability for service payment of £40 will remain in place until the end of September

• Payment of £25 per patient counselled and treated if required

• Reimbursement for anti-biotics prescribed using the National PGD using a CPUS Prescription form

• Prescriptions must be written for Azithromycin 250mg capsules to ensure PSD pay

Smoking Cessation Services

• Payment of £25 per patient month for the provision of support and treatment

• Reimbursement for Nicotine Replacement therapy prescribed using a CPUS Prescription form