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Network Contract DES (NCD) Payments 2026-2027

Background

Investment and evolution: The five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, describes significant investment in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) through the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

The eighth year of the Network Contract DES will begin in April 2026. The data being collected covers Early Cancer Diagnosis, Structured Medication Reviews and Tackling Neighbourhood Inequalities.

Purpose and outline

The purpose is to support NHS England (NHSE) by providing the relevant data/information that is used by PCNs/practices and commissioners to acknowledge achievement and ultimately ensure payment is accurate and in line with the enhanced service specification.

How this service is commissioned and provided

The requirements for this Service are covered by the Enhanced Service specification.

2026/27: Information about this service

Quality service start date: 1 April 2026

Quality service end date: 31 March 2027

Payment period: Annually

Collection frequency: Monthly

Manual or automatic entry: Automatic data collection

Co-commissioning: No

Service user guides

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe manually enter and declare achievement for this service. Activity and achievement should be recorded monthly.

Manually inputting Achievement data

Declaring an achievement for payment

Network Contract DES (NCD) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 2026/27

This page features Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Network Contract DES (NCD) 2026/27.

Data is collected monthly by the data suppliers who extract data from clinical systems.
The Commissioner is to report this to ODS who will send us the PCN end date. Once received, this will automatically end the participation of the service for the practice, and no further action is required by the Commissioner. Failure to follow this process will result in incorrect calculations at year end. Commissioners are not to apply service end dates.

For more information about Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES), please visit the NHS England website.

Network Contract DES (NCD) Payments 2025-2026

Background

Investment and evolution: The five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, describes significant investment in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) through the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

The seventh year of the Network Contract DES will begin in April 2025, the data being collected covers Early Cancer Diagnosis, Structured Medication Reviews and Tackling neighbourhood Inequalities.

Purpose and outline

The purpose is to support NHS England (NHSE) by providing the relevant data/information that is used by PCNs/practices and commissioners to acknowledge achievement and ultimately ensure payment is accurate and in line with the enhanced service specification.

How this service is commissioned and provided

NHS England service specification, guidance and technical requirements will be published here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/investment/gp-contract/

The requirements for this Service are covered by the Enhanced Service specification.

2025/26: Information about this service

Quality service start date: 1 April 2025

Quality service end date: 31 March 2026

Payment period: Annually

Collection frequency: Monthly

Manual or automatic entry: Automatic data collection

Co-commissioning: No

Service user guides

The below links to user guides describe manually enter and declare achievement for this service. Activity and achievement should be recorded monthly:

Manually inputting Achievement data

Declaring an achievement for payment

Network Contract DES (NCD) 2025/26 Year End Checklist

The below lists the year-end actions required to ensure an accurate NCD achievement calculation:

  1. Check PCN membership

Commissioner to verify all practices with an active PCN membership have had their NCD2025/26 service offered and auto accepted on their behalf.

2. Check CRP figure

Please check the CRP figure for practices within your PCNs if there has been or will be a change of circumstances that will affect the Patient list size that is utilised in the year-end NCD Achievement calculation, we recommend checking  the CRP figure against 1st January 2026 and if a change is required submit the amendment form to: support@cqrs.co.uk  by 31st March 2026 end of day to enable an accurate achievement calculation.

3. Input missing data

Commissioner to input any missing NCD indicator level data into CQRS. A guide on how to identify missing data for the NCD2025/26 service can be found on the NHS Futures site.

4. Confirm subject to declare indicators

Ensure the ‘Subject to declare’ indicators CAN04 and HI03 have been declared by the service provider.

5. Declare Achievement

PCNs are to declare achievement once all data has been inputted either by automated extraction or manual entry, achievement has calculated and all subject to declare indicators have been approved by the service provider.

6. Financially approve payments

Financially approve achievement to ensure a payment by the payment agency (PCSE).

Network Contract DES (NCD) 2025/26 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

This below features Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Network Contract DES (NCD) 2025/26.

The value of the NCD £ per point is £198.00.
Data is collected monthly by the data suppliers who extract data from clinical systems.
The Commissioner is to report this to ODS who will send us the PCN end date. Once received, this will automatically end the participation of the service for the practice, and no further action is required by the Commissioner. Failure to follow this process will result in incorrect calculations at year end. Commissioners are not to apply service end dates within CQRS.
Please ensure you have checked your NCD 2025/26 Achievement before you financially approve as it cannot be amended once submitted and will have to be manually corrected off system if required later.
No, there has been no aspiration payment for the NCD 2025/26 Service.
Only commissioners can amend data for the NCD 2025/26 indicators.
Please see the following guidance on how to amend manually submitted data: https://welcome.cqrs.nhs.uk/training/adjusting-manually-submitted-data/
PCNs calculations can be approved following resolution of the dispute at any point. They will be paid in conjunction with the next appropriate payment run for PCNs. We have highlighted June, July, and August because they are within the time set out in the specification documents. The calculation process is reliant on an aggregation calculation taking place in CQRS and the frequency of that aggregation is substantially reduced later in the financial year.
Mergers depend on the timing and request of the GP Clinical System Supplier (GPSS), particularly if the practices merging are on different systems. Practices and commissioners should speak with the GPSS to understand what the merger will do with the data and how the extractions taking place in April will be affected. Appropriate adjustments will need to be made where required.
Manually entered data for automatic indicators will be overwritten if an extraction takes place. Please note the timing of manual entry.
Scenario 1
If a practice leaves a PCN and is NOT joining another, the Commissioner is to report this to ODS who will then send us a PCN end date. Once the PCN end date is received, the practice will be removed from the PCN in CQRS and from any PCN service participation.

Scenario 2
If a practice leaves a PCN and joins another, the Commissioner is to report the change to ODS who will then send CQRS helpdesk the PCN end date for the old PCN and the start date of the new PCN. The Commissioner will then need to cancel the service offer under the old PCN, re-offer the service under the new PCN to pick the joined practice up and then re-offer the service back to the old PCN.

If a Commissioner does not follow the above processes and they apply a service end date to the practice in the service offer instead, the achievement will not aggregate and will become stuck in the ‘awaiting network achievement’ status. This is because the system still has the practice linked to the PCN and is awaiting its data. The Commissioner will need to make an off the system payment and report the change to ODS for achievements moving forward.

If the Commissioner has applied a service end date and then contacted ODS, the system will not update the change until the Commissioner has removed the service end date. As soon as they amend the service end date back to its original end date, the file will process overnight within CQRS and remove the practice from the PCN.
There is no indicator that requires manual submission for the NCD2025/26 service, however, there is a requirement to manually enter data for any missing indicators under the Data Submission tab. Practices are to check and identify missing data for the NCD service. Guidance on how to identify missing data can be found here.
Once achievement has calculated, it will be available to be declared by the PCN. If there is missing management information data, this will be held in the ‘Service Provider Approved – Awaiting Data’ status until all data has been submitted.  
Data is extracted and transmitted to CQRS for NCD from the following data source:
–  General Practice Extraction Service (GPES). Further information can be found at: Network Contract DES (NCD) NHS England Digital
NCD data is calculated at PCN level. This means that each practice within the PCN will have data extracted individually which is then aggregated (totalled/added together) to produce an overall achievement. This achievement is for the whole PCN (all practices achievements added together).
After extraction, practices can view their data under the data submission tab when logged in as the practice.
The contract specification contains the process if the PCN understands that the data in CQRS is inaccurate. The PCN should engage their commissioner and provide evidence so that the amendments to the data can be considered and applied if agreed.
If a practice does not dispute their data and are happy with all the figures, they are to let their PCN Nominated Payee know so that the data can be aggregated as final figures for the PCN.
If any practice data is missing, there will be a further opportunity to enter the data on CQRS and have it financially approved ahead of a re-run of aggregation for the final August payment. The deadline for this will be confirmed in due course.
The ARRS is not processed on CQRS. A link to the system for ARRS claims can be found here: https://www.primarycareworkforce.nhs.uk/
There are usually 2 users nominated as the PCN Nominated Payee for each PCN. Once all GP Practices within the PCN have confirmed the data, it is the responsibility of the PCN Nominated Payee to declare the NCD achievement. This achievement amount is the overall figure for all practices within the PCN.
The PCN Nominated Payee can run the achievement summary report against 31/03/2026 to view the overall amount. This can be done by following the steps below:

– Go to Reports tab
– Go to Achievement subtab
– Go to Achievement summary report
– Select the financial year
– Leave the payment types
– Select the service
– Ensure the PCN is ticked
– Select 31/03/2026 achievement date
– Run report

They can drill down into each domain to check the overall achievements for each area.

They can also view the achievement via the dashboard. This can be done by following the steps below:

– Go to Achievements tab
– Go to Network declaration management sub-tab
– Select the financial year
– Select the service
– Select the achievement date
A GP practice can check their data by following the below steps:

– Go to Data submission tab
– Select the financial year
– Select the service
– Select the achievement date from the ‘last updated’ section
– Click the relevant domain and check figures in the indicators
A GP practice PCN performance report can be run by following the below steps:

–  Go to report tab
–  Go to Data entry subtab
–  Go to GP Practice PCN performance
–  Select the financial year
–  Select the service
–  Ensure the practice code is populated and tick the check box to the left
–  Select the achievement date
–  Run report

The report will download as an excel document. It will only display data and not achievement amounts.

They can also view the achievement via the dashboard if they have the PCN view permission. This can be done by following the steps below:

– Go to Achievements tab
– Go to Network declaration management sub-tab
– Select the financial year
– Select the service
– Select the achievement date
Once the achievement has been declared it is sent to the Commissioner for the first level approval as the overall achievement amount.
The Commissioner will need to approve the achievement by following the below steps:

–  Go to Achievements tab
–  Select the financial year
–  Select the ‘awaiting commissioning organisation approval’ status
–  Select the service
–  Parent organisation to be ‘all’
–  The achievement to and from date should auto populate
–  Select the relevant achievements
–  Select ‘approve’

The second level approval will then need to be made which is the same steps as first level approval but changing the status:

–  Go to Achievements tab
–  Select the financial year
–  Select the ‘awaiting financial approval’ status
–  Select the service
–  Parent organisation to be ‘all’
–  The achievement to and from date should auto populate
–  Select the relevant achievements
–  Select ‘approve’
Commissioners can run the bulk achievement report for all practices to see data by using the following steps:

–  Go to Reports tab
–  Go to Achievement subtab
–  Go to Bulk achievement export
– Select the financial year
– Select the payment type
– Select the service
– Select the start and end date
– Run report

The report will download and will open in excel format and shows data only but no achievement values.
The Commissioner can run the provider payment declaration report to view the overall achievement amount. They cannot view data at individual practice level. This can be done by following the steps below:

–  Go to Reports tab
–  Go to Declaration subtab
–  Go to Provider payment declaration report tab
–  Select the financial year
–  Leave the payment types
–  Select the service
–  Select ‘all’ practices
–  Run report

Please note if the nominated payee is not a GP Practice, the report will display as ‘awaiting data’. This is because the report is only designed to show amounts for PCN’s whose nominated payee is a GP Practice.

If the nominated payee is not a GP Practice, payment is not sent to PCSE – the Commissioner is to handle this off the system.

The Commissioner can also run the DPA report which will display at PCN level (overall amount):

–  Go to Report tab
–  Go to Achievement subtab
–  Select Detailed provider achievement report
–  Select the financial year
–  Ignore the payment types
–  Select the service
–  Select the PCNs
–  Select the achievement date
–  Run report
The reaggregation job is carried out every day overnight in CQRS. This is currently set for twelve (12) months from the 31st of March 2026 Achievement date.
Achievement for NCD2025/26 service is expected to become available to view on Thursday 21st May 2026.
PCN Membership
Network Organisation Relationship report Guide- How to check a PCN relationship in CQRS National

PCN Service Offers
To run the report for a list of practices who have an offer under a PCN

– Click Participation Management Tab
– Navigate to Manage Services
– Click Offered services
– Select Financial year- 2025/26
– Select Network Contract DES 2025/26
– Select the PCN

It is advised that the membership results are cross-referenced to the service offers in CQRS to identify if any practices have offers yet to be cancelled under old PCNs where Practices have left or joined and reoffered under their new PCN.

Network Contract DES (NCD) 2025/26 Indicator List

CAN04
HI03
SMR01A
SMR01B
SMR01C
SMR01D
SMR03
HI21

For more information about Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES), please visit the NHS England website.

Nerve Conduction Studies

Purpose and outline

Nerve Conduction Studies are a diagnostic test to assess the function of peripheral nerves.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of procedures conducted – Test 1.

Number of procedures conducted – Test 2.

Follow up appointments with patients.

Declaration.

National Enhanced Service (NES) Immediate Care / First Response Care

Purpose and outline

The National Enhanced Service (NES) Immediate Care/First Response Care refers to a service that provides rapid, skilled medical assistance in emergency situations. It augments the ambulance service.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Specialised ICFR training for GPs – in hours.

Number of incidents at practice.

Declaration.

NPT Antipsychotics

Purpose and outline

NPT Antipsychotics refers to medications sometimes prescribed to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of consultations for newly prescribed patients.

Number of follow on appointments.

Declaration.

Non-contraceptive LARC Fitting Service

Purpose and outline

Fitting service for long-acting reversible contraception (LARC).

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of LARC fittings.

Follow up appointments with patients.

Declaration.

Near Patient Testing

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of level 1 patients seen.

Number of level 2 patients seen.

Number of home visits.

Declaration.

Nepalese Registrations

Purpose and outline

GP registrations relating to patients from Nepalese orgin.

Information about this service

Local incentive scheme.

Example components for this service

Number of Nepalese patients at a practice.

Number of hours of translator services used.

Declaration.

National Diabetes Audit Programme 2017-2029

Purpose and outline

The National Diabetes Audit (NDA) supports NHS England (NHSE) in ensuring practices meet contractual requirement set out in the GMS Contract Regulations. It ensures standardised care and improved patient outcomes and provides management information to support practices and commissioners understand their performance and identify areas for improvement.

The NDA is part of the National Clinical Audit Programme commissioned by NHSE. It was established in 2004 and measures the quality of diabetes care against the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended standards and current policies, including the NHS Five Year Forward View. It is used in a number of cardiovascular risk tools such as the Diabetes versus Expenditure Tool and Rightcare Atlas of Variation. It provides key indicators for the measurement of patient care, service improvements and quality standards. The NDA is the only source of diabetes information that offers patient-level analysis and the ability to track changes over time.

Information about this service:

  • Quality service start date: 1st April 2017
  • Quality service end date: 31st March 2029
  • Collection frequency: Quarterly
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (Cegedim, EMIS and TPP)
  • Co-commissioning: No
  • System type: GPES service

National Obesity Audit 2023-2029

Purpose and outline

The purpose of the National Obesity Audit (NOA) service is to support NHS England to see the landscape of care and resources available for people living with overweight and obesity. It ensures standardised care and improved patient outcomes and provides relevant management information to support providers and commissioners understand their performance and to ensure they meet their contractual requirements.

It provides the ability to monitor aspects of the National Obesity Strategy including the impact of additional weight management services as well as commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan.

How this service is commissioned and provided

This service is offered out by NHS England for GP practices to accept.

Information about this service:

  • Quality service start date: 1 October 2023
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2029
  • Payment period: Participation only service in CQRS.

Network Contract DES (NCD) Payments 2024-2025

Network Contract DES (NCD) Payments 2024/25

Background

Investment and evolution: The five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, describes significant investment in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) through the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES). As part of the Network Contract DES, investment is being made to support expansion of the primary care workforce and the implementation of seven national Network Service Requirements between 2019/20 and 2023/24 through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). The sixth year of the Network Contract DES began in April 2024 and the data being collected develops the indicators created since 19/20 around the ARRS and the seven service specifications, covering CVD, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Proactive Care, Personalised Care, Early Cancer Diagnosis, Structured Medication Reviews and Tackling neighbourhood Inequalities.

Purpose and outline

The purpose is to support NHS England (NHSE) by providing the relevant data/information that is used by PCNs/GP practices and commissioners to acknowledge achievement and ultimately ensure payment is accurate and in line with the enhanced service specification.

How this service is commissioned and provided

NHS England service specification, guidance and technical requirements will be published here: Network Contract DES 2024/25 Specification. The service is commissioned by Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).

2024/25 Information about this service

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2024
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2025
  • Payment period: Annually
  • Collection frequency: Monthly
  • Manual or automatic entry: Automatic data collection
  • Co-commissioning: No

Service user guides

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service. Activity and achievement should be recorded monthly.

Network Contract DES (NCD) 2024/25 Year End Checklist

ActionTo be completed byDeadline
1. Verify all practices with an active PCN membership have had their NCD 24/25 service offered and auto accepted on their behalfCommissionersMonday 31st March 2025
2. Manually enter data for the denominator EHCH-01 before the April 25th automated collection for the remaining GPES dataCommissioners or PCN LeadsFriday April 25th 2025 / Before Service Provider Approval
3. Manually enter data for any missing indicators under the Data Submission tabCommissionersBefore Service Provider Approval
4.  Confirm the ‘subject to declare’ indicators CAN04 and HI03 have been declared by the service provider.PCN LeadsBefore Awaiting Commissioning Organisation Approval
5. Verify achievement has calculated and a payment is available to be declared in the Achievement tab. Check accuracy of payment and aggregated data indicators and if they require updatingPCN LeadsBefore Payment Approval Date
6. Financially approve achievement to ensure a payment by the payment agency (PCSE).CommissionersFinancial Approval

The below lists the year-end actions required to ensure an accurate NCD achievement calculation:

Commissioners to verify all practices with an active PCN membership have had their NCD 24/25 service offered and auto accepted on their behalf.
NCD Achievement will only calculate for participating practices in the PCN for example, if a PCN has 5 practices with only 4 participating, the NCD calculation will run on the 4 practices only.
PCN leads/Commissioners to manually enter data for the denominator EHCH-01 (Number of care home beds aligned to the PCN) before the April 25th automated collection for the remaining GPES data.
If this data is not manually entered by April 25th, it will default to 0 in order for achievement to be approved.
Only Commissioners can amend the EHCH-01 indicator after April 25th before the achievement is financially approved.
Please note Care home bed data is also used in PCSE online to support the Care Home Premium PCN payment, which is managed separately to the EHCH-01 indicator within CQRS.
Commissioners to manually enter data for any missing indicators under the Data Submission tab.
Inform practices to check and identify missing data for the NCD service. Guidance can be found in our Training
Once achievement has calculated, it will be available to be declared by the PCN.
If there is missing management information data, this will be held in the ‘Service Provider Approved – Awaiting Data’ status until all data has been submitted.
PCN Leads to confirm ‘subject to declare’ indicators: CAN04 and HI03 have been declared by the PCN lead.
A link for the guide on how to declare indicators can be found in our Training guides.
If these are not entered a payment will not be calculated for the PCN.
If Achievement has not been financially approved, NCD 24/25 indicators can be updated, and the data will re-aggregate overnight.  There are several payment approval date options for Commissioners.
 
PCN Leads to verify achievement has calculated and a payment is available to be declared in the Achievement tab on CQRS. Check accuracy of payment and aggregated data indicators and if they require updating.
 
After all indicators have been submitted, the data will re-aggregate overnight and the achievement can be financially approved.
Commissioners to financially approve achievement to ensure a payment by the payment agency (PCSE) by the ‘Expected Commissioner Payment Approval Date Options’ above.

Network Contract DES (NCD) 2024/25 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The below features Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Network Contract DES (NCD) 2024/25.

The value of the NCD £ per point is £198.00.
Data is collected monthly by the data suppliers who extract data from clinical systems.
The Commissioner is to report this to ODS who will send us the PCN end date. Once received, this will automatically end the participation of the service for the practice and no further action is required by the Commissioner. Failure to follow this process will result in incorrect calculations at year end. Commissioners are not to apply service end dates within CQRS.
Please ensure you have checked your NCD 2024/25 Achievement before you financially approve as it cannot be amended once submitted and will have to be manually corrected off system if required later.
No, there has been no aspiration payment for the NCD 2024/25 Service.
Only commissioners can amend data for the NCD 2024/25 indicators.
Please see the following guidance on how to amend manually submitted data: https://welcome.cqrs.nhs.uk/training/adjusting-manually-submitted-data-on-behalf-of-a-service-provider/
PCNs calculations can be approved following resolution of the dispute at any point. They will be paid in conjunction with the next appropriate payment run for PCNs. We have highlighted June, July, and August because they are within the time set out in the specification documents. The calculation process is reliant on an aggregation calculation taking place in CQRS and the frequency of that aggregation is substantially reduced later in the financial year.
Mergers depend on the timing and request of the GP Clinical System Supplier (GPSS), particularly if the practices merging are on different systems. Practices and commissioners should speak with the GPSS to understand what the merger will do with the data and how the extractions taking place in April will be affected. Appropriate adjustments will need to be made where required.
Manually entered data for automatic indicators will be overwritten if an extraction takes place. Please note the timing of manual entry.
Scenario 1
If a practice leaves a PCN and is NOT joining another, the Commissioner is to report this to ODS who will then send us a PCN end date. Once the PCN end date is received, the practice will be removed from the PCN in CQRS and from any PCN service participation.
Scenario 2
If a practice leaves a PCN and joins another, the Commissioner is to report the change to ODS who will then send CQRS helpdesk the PCN end date for the old PCN and the start date of the new PCN. The Commissioner will then need to cancel the service offer under the old PCN, re-offer the service under the new PCN to pick the joined practice up and then re-offer the service back to the old PCN.
If a Commissioner does not follow the above processes and they apply a service end date to the practice in the service offer instead, the achievement will not aggregate and will become stuck in the ‘awaiting network achievement’ status. This is because the system still has the practice linked to the PCN and is awaiting its data. The Commissioner will need to make an off the system payment and report the change to ODS for achievements moving forward.
If the Commissioner has applied a service end date and then contacted ODS, the system will not update the change until the Commissioner has removed the service end date. As soon as they amend the service end date back to its original end date, the file will process overnight within CQRS and remove the practice from the PCN.
There is requirement to manually enter denominator data for EHCH-01 (Number of care home beds aligned to the PCN) or default to 0. If you require any support accessing the data, please contact your commissioner. Care home bed data is also used in PCSE online to support the Care Home Premium PCN payment, which is managed separately to the EHCH-01 indicator within CQRS.
Data is extracted and transmitted to CQRS for NCD from the following data source: – GPES
NCD data is calculated at PCN level. This means that each practice within the PCN will have data extracted individually which is then aggregated (totalled/added together) to produce an overall achievement. This achievement is for the whole PCN (all practices achievements added together).
After extraction, practices can view their data under the data submission tab when logged in as the practice.
The contract specification contains the process if the PCN understands that the data in CQRS is inaccurate. The PCN should engage their commissioner and provide evidence so that the amendments to the data can be considered and applied if agreed.
If a practice does not dispute their data and are happy with all the figures, they are to let their PCN Nominated Payee know so that the data can be aggregated as final figures for the PCN.
If any practice data is missing, you will have up until the 6th of August 2025 to enter the data on CQRS and have it financially approved for aggregation to be re-run in time for the final August 20th Payment.
The ARRS is not processed on CQRS. A link to the system for ARRS claims can be found here: https://www.primarycareworkforce.nhs.uk/
There are usually 2 users nominated as the PCN Nominated Payee for each PCN. Once all GP Practices within the PCN have confirmed the data, it is the responsibility of the PCN Nominated Payee to declare the NCD achievement. This achievement amount is the overall figure for all practices within the PCN.
The PCN Nominated Payee can run the achievement summary report against 31/03/2025 to view the overall amount. This can be done by following the steps below:
– Go to Reports tab
– Go to Achievement subtab
– Go to Achievement summary report
– Select the financial year
– Leave the payment types
– Select the service
– Ensure the PCN is ticked
– Select 31/03/2025 achievement date
– Run report
They can drill down into each domain to check the overall achievements for each area.
They can also view the achievement via the dashboard. This can be done by following the steps below:
– Go to Achievements tab
– Go to Network declaration management sub-tab
– Select the financial year
– Select the service
– Select the achievement date
A GP practice can check their data by following the below steps:
– Go to Data submission tab
– Select the financial year
– Select the service
– Select the achievement date from the ‘last updated’ section
– Click the relevant domain and check figures in the indicators
A GP practice PCN performance report can be run by following the following steps:
–  Go to report tab
–  Go to Data entry subtab
–  Go to GP Practice PCN performance
–  Select the financial year
–  Select the service
–  Ensure the practice code is populated and tick the check box to the left
–  Select the achievement date
–  Run report
The report will download as an excel document. It will only display data and not achievement amounts.
They can also view the achievement via the dashboard if they have the PCN view permission. This can be done by following the steps below:
– Go to Achievements tab
– Go to Network declaration management sub-tab
– Select the financial year
– Select the service
– Select the achievement date
Once the achievement has been declared it is sent to the Commissioner for the first level approval as the overall achievement amount.
The Commissioner will need to approve the achievement by following the below steps:
–  Go to Achievements tab
–  Select the financial year
–  Select the ‘awaiting commissioning organisation approval’ status
–  Select the service
–  Parent organisation to be ‘all’
–  The achievement to and from date should auto populate
–  Select the relevant achievements
–  Select ‘approve’
The second level approval will then need to be made which is the same steps as first level approval but changing the status:
–  Go to Achievements tab
–  Select the financial year
–  Select the ‘awaiting financial approval’ status
–  Select the service
–  Parent organisation to be ‘all’
–  The achievement to and from date should auto populate
–  Select the relevant achievements
–  Select ‘approve’
Commissioners can run the bulk achievement report for all practices to see data by using the following steps:
–  Go to Reports tab
–  Go to Achievement subtab
–  Go to Bulk achievement export
– Select the financial year
– Select the payment type
– Select the service
– Select the start and end date
– Run report
The report will download and will open in excel format and shows data only but no achievement values.
The Commissioner can run the provider payment declaration report to view the overall achievement amount. They cannot view data at individual practice level. This can be done by following the steps below:
–  Go to Reports tab
–  Go to Declaration subtab
–  Go to Provider payment declaration report tab
–  Select the financial year
–  Leave the payment types
–  Select the service
–  Select ‘all’ practices
–  Run report
Please note if the nominated payee is not a GP Practice, the report will display as ‘awaiting data’. This is because the report is only designed to show amounts for PCN’s whose nominated payee is a GP Practice.
If the nominated payee is not a GP Practice, payment is not sent to PCSE – the Commissioner is to handle this off the system.
The Commissioner can also run the DPA report which will display at PCN level (overall amount):
–  Go to Report tab
–  Go to Achievement subtab
–  Select Detailed provider achievement report
–  Select the financial year
–  Ignore the payment types
–  Select the service
–  Select the PCNs
–  Select the achievement date
–  Run report
The reaggregation job is carried out every day overnight in CQRS. This is currently set for seven months from the 31st of March 2025 Achievement date.
Achievement for NCD 2024/25 service is expected to become available to view on Thursday 19th of June 2025.
PCN Membership
Network Organisation Relationship report Guide – How to check a PCN relationship in CQRS National

PCN Service Offers
To run the report for a list of practices who have an offer under a PCN:
               >Participation Management Tab 
               >Manage Services
               >Offered Services
               >Financial year – Select 2024/2025
               >Network Contract DES 2024/25
               >Select the PCN 
It is advised that the membership results are cross-referenced to the service offers in CQRS to identify if any practices have offers yet to be cancelled under old PCNs where Practices have left or joined and reoffered under their new PCN.

Network Contract DES (NCD) 2024/25 Indicator List

ACC09
ACC15
CAN04
CAN03
CVD10
CVD11
CVD13
CVD14
CVD03
CVD04
CVD07
CVD08
CVD01
EHCH01
EHCH02
EHCH04
EHCH05
EHCH14
EHCH24
EHCH27
EHCH28
EHCH29
ES01
HI03
PC01
PC02
PC03
PC14
PC15
PC17
PC20
PR001
PR002
RESP01
RESP02
SMR01A
SMR01B
SMR01C
SMR01D
SMR02A
SMR02B
SMR02C
SMR02D
SMR03
SMR25
SMR26
SMR30
SMR31
SMR32
SMR33
SMR34
SMR35
SMR36
SMR37
HI08
HI09
HI17
HI18
HI21
HI01
HI02
HI04
HI27
VI01
VI02
VI03

For more information about Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES), please visit the NHS England website.