New Medicines Service
NMS Overview
The NMS service provides support for people with long-term conditions newly prescribed a medicine to help improve medicines adherence; it is focused on particular patient groups and conditions.
The PSNC NMS page contains a range of resources including:
- an up to date version of service specification.
- Medicines list
- Record keeping
- Communicating with GPs
- Referring patients to GPs
- FAQ
Quarterly Reports
You are required to submit your NMS (and MUR) quarterly information to the NHSBSA within 10 working days from the last day of the quarter the data refers to (last day of June, September, December and March).
Find out more on the NHSBSA website.
NMS Resources
This page contains a number of resources produced by PSNC and other organisations to support pharmacists when they are providing NMS
NMS Information from NHS Employers
Communicating with Patients
NMS patient leaflet (Microsoft Word)
NMS patient leaflet (PDF)
