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2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme (amended)
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A set of rules for four payment mechanisms that establish the amount payable for provision of NHS-funded secondary healthcare.
The 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme (amended) reflects amendments that apply for 2024/25. These amendments were consulted on in December 2023 and January 2024. For more details, see the amendment log.
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A set of rules for four payment mechanisms that establish the amount payable for provision of NHS-funded secondary healthcare.
The 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme (amended) reflects amendments that apply for 2024/25. These amendments were consulted on in December 2023 and January 2024. For more details, see the amendment log.
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2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme - frequently asked questions
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Clarification of frequently asked questions about the NHS Payment Scheme.
Please contact england.pricingenquiries@nhs.net for more information.
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Details of the amendments made to the 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme, following consultation.
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Details of the changes between consultation on proposals for the 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme and final publication.
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This workbook contains prices for 2024/25, updated to reflect a revised cost uplift factor for 2024/25. This has increased from 1.7% (in the 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme (amended), published in March 2024) to 5.0%. The prices should be applied from 1 April 2024.
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Further information and guidance on certain currencies (units of healthcare for which payment is made).
This document has been updated to reflect amendments to the Payment Scheme for 2024/25.
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Guidance to support the implementation of best practice tariffs.
This document has been updated to reflect amendments to the Payment Scheme for 2024/25.
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Details of the calculation of NHS Payment Scheme unit and guide prices and cost adjustments for 2024/25, including cost uplift and efficiency factors.
This document has been updated to reflect amendments to the Payment Scheme for 2024/25.
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This workbook contains the initially published NHS Payment Scheme unit and guide prices, and related information, for 2024/25. The prices in this workbook do not reflect the 2024/25 pay awards for Agenda for Change (AfC), medical and dental staff groups following recommendations from the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) and the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) respectively, or the pay offer for resident doctor staff (junior doctors).
Please use the ‘Pay award prices’ workbook, published above.
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Guidance on the payment mechanisms that apply to NHS providers – aligned payment and incentive (API) and low volume activity block payments (LVA).
This document has been updated to reflect amendments to the Payment Scheme for 2024/25.
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A guide to the market forces factor.
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Template to be used to request variations from the 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme.
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Form to be used to nominate additions and changes to the lists of high cost drugs and devices that are excluded from core payment mechanisms.
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This file contains the 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme that was in effect before the amendments made for 2024/25.
The file includes the initially published Annex A, and the 2023/24 pay award prices workbook that was published in August 2023 but was expected