DSQS
Audits
DSQS Audits
What are DSQS Audits?
Supporting practices to meet the requirements of the Dispensing Services Quality Scheme (DSQS) through a clinically-led audit.
How Will This Help My Practice?
Supports your DSQS income eligibility
Completing mandated reviews & evidence needed to claim payment.
Reduces administrative & clinical workload
We handle the entire process to keep GPs and nurses focused on frontline care
Enhances clinical safety for dispensing patients
Resolving issues and identifying risks like outdated monitoring, polypharmacy, and interactions.
Provides inspection-ready governance
Creating an audit trail with accurate SNOMED coding and CQC evidence.
matched support for rural & dispensing practices
Providing specialist support of the unique pressures, frailty, and workflows in these areas.
Clear governance demonstration
Audit reports can be uploaded directly to governance folders.
“The team is consistently reliable. Phones are always answered and emails come back the same day. It’s made a real difference to how we run our medication reviews.”
“Fast email replies and always there when we need clinical input. The pharmacists fit straight into the team and just get on with the work.”
“Excellent service from start to finish. Easy to reach, quick to reply, and they clearly know NHS workflows inside out. We couldn’t recommend the team more highly.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is DSQS?
The Dispensing Services Quality Scheme (DSQS) is a voluntary programme to help ensure that dispensing practices are committed to providing quality and professional care for their dispensing patients.
Those enrolled on the scheme must give reassurance that they are providing this quality practice by demonstrating their compliance. If the requirements are met, the practice is paid a fee per patient to assure them of the quality of their care.
How many dispensing patients are reviewed for the audit?
Can your pharmacists make clinical changes?
Do you review medication safety as part of DSQS audits?
Yes, we check for any medication interactions, duplications, monitoring gaps, inappropriate repeats, and high-risk medicines.
For any missing monitoring, we request blood tests, escalate safety issues, and ensure appropriate follow-up for the patient from the practice.
What evidence do practices receive? WIll this help us secure DSQS payment?
Our complete DSQS audit package provides a ready-to-submit output to practices to help them with securing payment. This also includes all methodology, findings, action taken, outstanding risks, and reports for governance and CQC.
This clear, compliant audit documentation directly supports a practice’s claim for payment validation.
