NHS BSA · production
Prescriptions and Dental Exemption check
"A check to confirm whether patients who have signed a declaration to claim free prescriptions or dental treatment and have not been confirmed through Real Time Exemption Checking, are eligible to do so."
Publicly known
- Owner: NHS BSA
- Vendor: Department of Work, Pensions (DWP)
Undisclosed
- Model architecture
- Model performance benchmarks
- Training data provenance
Who is actually being paid
Supplier arrangement · described jointly for all 2 suppliers
Role
DWP allows API (Application Programming Interface) access to NHSBSA in order to check if a patient holds a valid exemption on specific dates.
Procurement procedure
Single source procurement. The ability to check Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) data is chargable and is paid for by NHSBSA as a package, DWP is the only source of the required data and so this route is followed.
Data access terms
NHSBSA provides patient data to DWP to identify and verify claims from patients that they are entitled to exemption or remission from patient charges. Term of access is managed through a Data Sharing Agreement between the parties.
Department of Work
No Companies House number in the record.
Pensions (DWP)
No Companies House number in the record.
Source: ATRS record · last updated Thu Sep 25 2025