For details on the pharmacy quality payments scheme, please visit the PQS page of this website.

NHS England resources

• Findings and recommendations from the antimicrobial stewardship initiatives
• Oral anticoagulant safety audit 2021/22
• Preventing harm from valproate audit report 2019/20
• High-risk medicines audit report – lithium, methotrexate, amiodarone and phenobarbital 2019/20
• NSAID safety audit 2018/19
• Community pharmacy quality scheme 2022/23: findings and recommendations from the TARGET treating your infection leaflets initiatives

Further external resources

• Independent evaluation of the quality payments scheme (QPS) and pharmacy quality scheme (PQS) 2017 – 2021
• Do pay-for-performance schemes improve quality in community pharmacy? A mixed-methods study exploring stakeholder perspectives on implementation of the nationwide Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) in England? | PLOS One
• Assessing the impact of using a patient counselling prompt – the TARGET antibiotic checklist in England’s community pharmacies
• An evaluation of oral anticoagulant safety indicators by England’s community pharmacies (mdpi.com)
• Antibiotics – Responding to urinary tract infection symptoms in England’s community pharmacies (mdpi.com)
• The national implementation of a community pharmacy antimicrobial stewardship intervention (PAMSI) through the PQS 2020-22 (mdpi.com)
• The use of the TARGET antibiotic checklist to support antimicrobial stewardship in England’s community pharmacies (mdpi.com)