CPCF clinical services IT requirements
Published on: 10th September 2022 | Updated on: 22nd April 2024
This page contains information on the IT requirements for Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) clinical services.
Information on the services themselves can be found in the National Pharmacy Services section of this website.
Introduction
For each clinical service within the CPCF, a dataset is agreed in negotiations prior to the launch of the service.
The dataset specifies the information which must be kept in clinical records for the service, information which must be shared with the patient’s general practice or other professionals (as appropriate) and information which will be share with NHS England and the NHSBSA, to support evaluation of services and post-payment verification.
The information shared with NHS England and the NHSBSA is generally submitted to the NHSBSA’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal via an application programming interface (API) which links pharmacy clinical services IT systems and the MYS portal.
The NHSBSA MYS API dataset for CPCF services (FutureNHS login required), which is primarily for use by IT system suppliers, details the information which is shared via APIs.
IT system suppliers also use the Professional Record Standards Body’s (PRSB) Community Pharmacy Data Standard – which defines the information that should be recorded in the pharmacy clinical record and sent to the patient’s general practice for all the CPCF clinical services – to develop their systems. In summer 2023, the PRSB updated the community pharmacy data standard.
IT system suppliers also apply nationally defined messaging standards to support the sharing of structured information on pharmacy services provided to patients with their general practice (Digital Medicines specification).
Additionally, the PRSB’s Core information standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between IT systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using healthcare services.
Development of APIs within clinical services IT systems
NHS England and the NHSBSA are working with clinical services IT suppliers to assure their IT modules for individual clinical services and the associated MYS APIs. The following table summarises the current situation:
| Progress reported by IT suppliers | |||||
| NHSBSA API spec status | Cegedim | PharmOutcomes | Positive Solutions | Sonar | |
| Hypertension case-finding service | Live | Live | Live | Live | Live |
| Pharmacy First | Live |
Live Work ongoing with NHSE’s TD for use of GP Connect Update Record to replace MESH post event message method |
Live Work ongoing with NHSE’s TD for use of GP Connect Update Record to replace MESH post event message method |
Live Work ongoing with NHSE’s TD for use of GP Connect Update Record to replace MESH post event message method |
Live Work ongoing with NHSE’s TD for use of GP Connect Update Record to replace MESH post event message method |
| Discharge Medicines Service | Work ongoing with suppliers. Go-live planned for early 2024. | Work ongoing with NHSBSA | Work ongoing with NHSBSA | Work ongoing with NHSBSA |
Work ongoing with NHSBSA
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| Smoking Cessation Service | Work ongoing with suppliers seeking assurance. Go-live planned for early 2024. | Work ongoing with NHSBSA | Live | Work ongoing with NHSBSA | Work ongoing with NHSBSA |
| Pharmacy Contraception Service | Live | Live | Live | Not yet developed. | Work ongoing with NHSBSA |
| New Medicine Service | Work ongoing with suppliers. Go-live on 1st December 2023 (optional from then). Date for mandatory use is to be confirmed. | Work ongoing with NHSBSA | Work ongoing with NHSBSA | Live | Work ongoing with NHSBSA |
Note for system suppliers and NHSBSA MYS team: please contact it@cpe.org.uk if/as statuses change.
Technical toolkits for IT suppliers
CPCS Technical Toolkit – NHSBSA CPCS webpage
Hypertension case-finding service draft technical toolkit (PowerPoint)
Discharge Medicines Service draft technical toolkit (PowerPoint)
New Medicine Service draft technical toolkit (PowerPoint)
Pharmacy Contraception Service draft technical toolkit
Smoking Cessation Service draft technical toolkit (PowerPoint)
