Enhanced & Advanced Services Claims (NECAF)

National Electronic Claim and Audit Forms (NECAF) is an online service for community pharmacies to make reimbursement claims for the following services: -

Care Home Support & Medicine Optimisation
Collaborative Working Scheme
Dispensing Compensation
Inhaler Review Service
Just in Case Packs
Patient Sharps Service
PCC Pharmacy Lead Role Payment
Pharmacy Independent Prescribing Service (PIPS)
Safe Dispensing and Medicines Optimisation Indicators
Smoking Cessation Level 2
Smoking Cessation Level 3 including Varenicline
Supervised Administration Of Prescribed Medicine
Workforce Development Scheme

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Information relating to the majority of these services can be found in the Drug Tariff, contact your Health Board for those that are not listed.

Further information, including downloading record forms can be found on the Communtiy Pharmacy Wales website.

For assistance please contact the Primary Care Services Help Desk on 02921 500 444

FAQs

How do I contact you?

You can contact us by phone, email or post. Visit our Contact Us page for further information

Why have we moved to automated prescription processing?

Automated processing allows us to improve the accuracy of reimbursement to contractors by reducing the potential for human error. Our accuracy rate has improved from 99.15% to 99.54% since the introduction of automated processing.

It also improves our efficiency, making a significant contribution to: -

Our ability to continue to reimburse contractors in accordance with SLA timescales in the face of ever increasing prescription volumes
Our ability to release funds to be reinvested in front line NHS services. We process 47% more prescription items with 53% fewer staff since the inception of our automation programme.

Medicines Use Review & Prescription Interventions - what is the difference?

A number of queries have been raised by pharmacists regarding the differentiation between MURs and prescription intervention MURs. To clarify the matter Welsh Government has confirmed that there is only one service (i.e. the MUR service) but the service may be prompted in different ways.

Regular MURs can be prompted pro-actively by identification of a certain group of patients that subsequently lead to an invitation for a Medicines Use Review.

A prescription intervention MUR is more reactive, in the sense that it is the response to a significant adherence problem with a person's medication that subsequently leads to an MUR being conducted. This is distinct from pharmacists making clinical interventions on prescriptions (e.g. where an interaction is identified and there is a need to get a prescription amended) which are required by the terms of service for all pharmacy contractors.

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