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As I said in the last article – your focus regarding
PAs must be on ensuring items that are not
tagged as PAs by the PPA are identified and staff
upskilled to understand the consequences if wrong
categorisation. Nurses need to understand many
of the items they use are not PAs and as such, if
they issue FP10s for such items, the patient should
pay a prescription fee should they not be exempt.

And, you must focus on ‘claiming’ the VAT on
PAs that are not used in practice; those that are
dispensed to patients. And this ‘claim’ will be via
your VAT return, but the information will need to
be provided by the dispensary as the items may
not always be obvious to the accounts team.

Think about when can a PA not be a PA. When it is
dispensed to a patient. Profit by default – happy
days if you get it right!

I know there will still be questions around this issue
so don’t be worried about reaching out…

Contact me at

carolinepond@chasepeople.com

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