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Why your bills might be rising

I’ve worked for PSUK for eight years, starting my career on the
Non-Dispensing telesales team, before moving on to the Dispensing
Telesales team and then progressing to being out on the road in the
south west before moving back home to the north.

I have had a few queries recently around the impact of concessions on
practices drug spend. OpenPrescribing has been a really useful tool in
identifying both to me and to the practices where the increased costs
are coming from and I wanted to share this with you.
With the current pressure on dispensary finances, I wanted to give you an insight
into another useful part of the OpenPrescribing website. Unfortunately for those
customers in Wales and Scotland, as of yet we as a team have not found an
equivalent resource that marries up the prescribing data with the extra cost
associated with the concessions. For the sake of totality, and before getting
into the details on OpenPrescribing, Scottish customers can review Scottish
Concessions at members.cps.scot/adjusted-prices/ and for Welsh Customers
cpwales.org.uk/dispensing-supply/supply/price-concessions/.
I have only recently started using this dashboard in OpenPrescribing, accessed via
searching for your own practice via the find a practice button on the homepage.

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