| Weekly News Digest - 16th January 2025 |
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Secure your place today - limited availability!There are a few spaces left to join the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) Workshop. The workshop aims to support learners in shared decision-making for starting, restarting, or changing contraception within PCS, enhancing their consultation and communication skills. By completing the program, learners will be able to utilize person-centred consultation skills, assess the suitability of oral contraception based on individual needs, discuss contraception options for informed decisions, provide information on long-acting reversible contraceptives, and address concerns or side effects related to contraception. The event will be held on:
Sunday, 19th January 2025
10:30am -12:30pm
at the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Business Centre, Cookham, Maidenhead.
Reserve your place here using the booking code PcsCPTV0125 (case sensitive). |
Read the latest newsletter from Healthwatch Oxfordshire. |
The Food Standards Agency has issued a recall for TriOn Pharma's Aactive D3 2000iu/ml supplements due to excess levels of Vitamin D3. Community pharmacies must check their stock and follow the updated guidance as of 9th January 2025. There is concern that patients in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West have been affected. The alert from the FSA provides necessary details and includes a food recall alert poster. See full details on the attached document from Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. |
Pharmacy owners who submit their FP34C declaration through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal by the 5th of the month (or by the 6th if one or more bank holiday occurs during the first five days of the month) will receive 100% of their advance payments four working days after the submission deadline. View the early advance payment dates for 2025 here.
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Flu Vaccination service: Provider Assurance activity begins
NHS England will begin provider assurance work with pharmacy owners providing the Flu Vaccination service, targeting those who may have administered NHS flu vaccinations to adults outside of the authorised cohorts before 3rd October 2024. The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Provider Assurance Team, will start by contacting pharmacies that submitted claims for patients outside the announced cohorts. See here for more details. |
The Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) Service Contract, starting in April 2025, has been shared with pharmacies via PharmOutcomes. To enhance the availability of this important service across the Reading Borough and West Berkshire Council areas, we need your support. The LPC has secured a 50% increase in remuneration for the EHC Service across East Berkshire, including pharmacies in Bracknell, Slough, and RBWM. Please read and accept the message on PharmOutcomes to join this initiative. For detailed service specifications and Patient Group Directions (PGDs), please see here. |
Read the latest article in the Pharmacy First myth busting series dispersing misconception about the service e.g.
It is fine to always select ‘other’ and free type the outcome of the consultation in the Pharmacy First IT system, rather than select the most appropriate outcome from the list of options. Wrong! Pharmacists should be selecting the most appropriate outcome from the list provided within the Pharmacy First IT system and only free typing text on the very rare occasion that the outcome does not fit into one of the outcome options. Click here.
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| Josh Reynolds MP recently met with the team at H A McParland Pharmacy in Furze Platt to discuss the challenges community pharmacists face. The rising medicine costs and insufficient government reimbursements are forcing pharmacies to operate at a loss. A campaign is being run to save Maidenhead's community pharmacies to sign up to the petition click here. |
| The University of Bath are offering postgraduate pharmacy courses for CPD, PGCert, PGDip, and MSc programs, including our accredited ACP MSc. Applications are open now and close at midnight on 23rd February for units starting in April 2025. Available units include Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Gastroenterology, Managing Minor Illness, Leadership in Healthcare, Mental Health, and Foundation Knowledge and Professional Skills for Medicines Optimisation (PCPEP:APEL version). Further information and deadlines are available here. |
The revised threshold for January is 25 clinical pathway consultations. Please remember that you only have 3 months to submit a claim after consultation, ie for January 2025 the last date is 5th April 2025. Click here. |
Public Health Oxfordshire County Council in collaboration with Community Pharmacy Thames Valley will be holding an online event on Thursday, 6th February 2025 from 7.30pm-8.30pm. The event is open to all practising Community Pharmacists and registered Pharmacy Technicians working within Oxfordshire. The aim is to increase awareness of synthetic opioids, understand available support services and harm reduction interventions, learn how to access these services and manage risks, gain knowledge about take-home naloxone, relevant legislation, distribution services in Oxfordshire, and safety measures and how to join and effectively deliver the Oxfordshire Community Pharmacy Take-Home Naloxone pilot service. Attendees will be presented with Certificates of Completion and will then have met the training requirement for delivery of the Take Home Naloxone pilot service Register here.
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FREE training courses for pharmacy professionalsThe LPC subscribes to the Virtual Outcomes training platform, granting our pharmacies access to an array of online training resources. To get started, simply enter your ODS Code using the link below. |
To view all events please visit Community Pharmacy Thames Valley website |
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