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Q: What is the average pharmacy NMS per month?

A: Sue Swift, our Drug Tariff Information Technician looked at
the number of NMS an average pharmacy in the year 22-23 that
dispenses 6,966 items per month.
So, what does that mean regarding NMS to achieve your number of full-service
interventions per month?
This means you would have to do 40% of your target to achieve the maximum
payments for each completion of £28. The maximum number of full interventions
for the month would be 70 and to get to your 40% target you would need to
complete 28-34 NMS.

Volume of Number of full service interventions per month necessary to achieve each target Maximum
prescription number of
items per 10% Target 20% Target 30% Target 40% Target 50% Target 60% Target 70% Target 80% Target 90% Target full service
month £25 per £26 per £27 per full £28 per £28 per £28 per £28 per £28 per £28 per interventions
full service full service service full service full service full service full service full service full service per month
intervention intervention intervention intervention intervention intervention intervention intervention intervention for which
payment will
be recieved
0-1500 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1501-2500 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20
2501-3500 3-5 6-8 9-11 12-14 15-17 18-20 21-23 24-26 27-29 30
3501-4500 4-7 8-11 12-15 16-19 20-23 24-27 28-31 32-35 36-39 40
4501-5500 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50
5501-6500 6-11 12-17 18-23 24-29 30-35 36-41 42-47 48-53 54-59 60
6501-7500 7-13 14-20 21-27 28-34 35-41 42-48 49-55 56-62 63-69 70
7501-8500 8-15 16-23 24-31 32-39 40-47 48-55 56-63 64-71 72-79 80
8501-9500 9-17 18-26 27-35 36-44 45-53 54-62 63-71 72-80 81-89 90
9501- 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-99 100
10500
+1000 (+1)-(+2) (+2)-(+3) (+3)-(+4) (+4)-(+5) (+5)-(+6) (+6)-(+7) (+7)-(+8) (+8)-(+9) (+9)-(+10) (+10)
Table 1 taken from page 68 of the England and Wales Drug Tariff November 2023

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