A set of prices and rules to help commissioners and providers of NHS care provide best value to their patients.

Please note: As part of the response to Covid-19, the NHS has adopted special payment arrangements under which most providers and commissioners move to block contract payments ‘on account’. Read guidance on payment and contracting for these arrangements.

However, the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) continues to have effect. To the extent that the special payment arrangements involve a departure from the national prices, currencies and blended payment arrangements specified in the NTPS, they involve local variations/departures agreed in accordance with the national tariff rules set out in Sections 3 and 4 of the 2021/22 NTPS. The contracting and payment guidance referred to above includes a template statement to be used by commissioners to record those variations/departures and to submit for publication in accordance with section 116(3) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.