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PSNC reminds contractors to complete PQS part 2 work before June 30 deadline

Community pharmacy contractors have been reminded to complete the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) Part 2 for their 2020-21 work until June 30, 2021.NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) and the Department of Health and Social Care were requested by the pharmacy negotiator, PSNC, for more "flexible timings" for completion of the PQS work earlier so contractors had enough time to submit their claims.Contractors will need to collate the evidence to demonstrate that they were compliant with the requirements in the domains they declared as having met in their PQS Part 2 2020/21 declaration between February 1 and March 1 2021. 

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