Official Veterinarians (OVs) in England and Wales should submit invoices to make claims for miscellaneous duties and DNA packing and tagging.
This replaces the earlier APHA self-billing system.
The best way to create and ship invoices
OV practices should submit invoices month-to-month. After an bill is submitted, the APHA veterinarian authorising the duty should add a observe to the related Sam report.
To make sure funds are made on time, invoices should embrace all accomplished companies in addition to the next data:
- distinctive bill quantity
- observe particulars, together with registered buying and selling title with the deal with and VAT registration quantity within the letterhead
- date of go to
- County Parish Holding (CPH) quantity and farm or buyer title
- particulars of the duty and applicable price (headage or hourly as applicable), together with the variety of animals or hours in keeping with the dimensions of charges
- mileage being charged
- VAT (present this as a separate cost)
The place to ship your bill
Invoices ought to be emailed to FinanceEnglandServiceDelivery@apha.gov.uk.
The e-mail topic line ought to comprise ‘OV Miscellaneous Declare’ adopted by the observe title.
Contact the Finance and Enterprise Help Workforce on (0)20 802 65644 when you can’t e mail your bill.
Charges and mileage charges
Scale of charges
There’s a go to price of £52.12 and an hourly price of £72.53 for the next work areas or duties instructed by APHA:
- bluetongue, foot and mouth illness, glanders, parasitic mange, rabies, sheep scab, swine fever, swine vesicular illness, equine infectious anaemia, equine viral arteritis, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- quarantine examinations
- inspection of animals and poultry in markets
- importation or exportation of animals, together with horses
- welfare visits or reviews
For instance: a go to of lower than one hour would price £52.12, a go to of 1 hour would price £72.52, and a go to of two hours half-hour would price £181.33.
Mileage charges
Mileage charges are £0.40 per mile, between 1 and 1,000 miles.
DNA packing and tagging charges
DNA packing and tagging can solely be charged for when the proprietor of the animals in a tuberclin (TB) check is paying for the check. No mileage might be claimed on these duties.
For DNA packing there’s a price of £3 per go to.
For DNA tagging there’s a price of £6.04 per animal.
Something exterior of those charges must be agreed earlier than the duty date with the Veterinary Head of Subject Supply (VHoFD) or Veterinary Lead Wales (VLW).
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