FOI 1685 – Primary Care Rebate Schemes

Response

Date: 25 October 2022

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Dear Sir / Madam,

FOI Reference Number: 1685

1. Please can you provide the product names with start and finish dates of all your agreed primary care rebates and please distinguish which rebates are aligned to PrescQIPP and which are independent.

Please find attached list of rebates with start and finish dates.

PrescQIPP assess rebate schemes offered to the NHS by the pharmaceutical industry in response to requests by commissioners to provide guidance on their acceptability. A number of documents detailing and explaining the process are freely available on the PrescQIPP website at the following location: https://www.prescqipp.info/our-resources/webkits/primary-care-rebates/

PrescQIPP provide an independent assessment of any particular scheme. They do not approve or reject schemes, neither do they act as a partner in the contract between the NHS and the company. Individual commissioners may accept or reject any scheme as they see fit. Therefore no rebates are aligned to PrescQIPP.

2. Please can you provide this information at place level as well as ICB level

Primary care rebate schemes are all signed at ICB level.

3. Please can you advise if any of your agreed rebates are conditional on achieving increased volumes/ market shares?

None of these primary care rebate schemes are conditional on increased volumes or market shares.

4. I would also like to request the process of how you review and evaluate the rebates presented to you. Please can you also provide a copy of your primary care rebate policy.

The CCG rebate principles and process can be found on the Derbyshire Medicines Management website at the following location:
http://www.derbyshiremedicinesmanagement.nhs.uk/assets/Non_Clinical_Guidelines/Misc/Derbyshire_Rebate_Scheme_Process.pdf

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Yours faithfully,

Kathryn Jacklin
FOI Officer
Derby and Derbyshire ICB

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