April 8th 2025

By Ailsa Colquhoun

DDA seeks your help with dispensary cost information

The DDA has launched a dispensary profitability survey to assess the impact of the proposed employer NI increases on the dispensary operation.

The survey is anonymous and seeks information about the staffing and size of the dispensary operation, basic information about dispensing profitability, and how partners plan to cover the increased dispensary staffing costs, following the increased employer NI costs in effect from April 6.

The DDA aims to use the findings to highlight the impact of the increased operational costs on the practice, staff and its patients. The information will also help the DDA, on your behalf, to seek an urgent increase in dispensary remuneration (the dispensing fee) to at least cover these costs.

Please help us to help you. Please take the survey  

The survey will close on Friday 25 April.