| Weekly News Digest - 13th November 2025 |
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| Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) is funding to support community pharmacies in managing winter pressures during the peak of the 2025/26 season. This initiative focuses on respiratory health and will run from 1st December 2025 to 28th February 2026. Expressions of interest is being invited from community pharmacies who wish to deliver this vital service. Please read the attached information carefully before submitting your application. Deadline to apply: Friday 21st November 2025. If you have any questions before completing the EOI form please email: caroline.martinez@nhs.net |
| Due to a policy change aligning NHS service fees pharmacy contractors will notice a difference in their Advance payments, with these payments higher in value than they have been previously. These payments include consultation fees for Flu (adult), Covid-19, Emergency Contraception, Hypertension Case-Finding, and the Pharmacy Contraception Service, with reimbursement for supplied items also factored into the main drug Advance payment. Click here. |
| Read the findings of the 2025 Pressures Survey here. |
| Download the latest edition of Healthwatch Oxfordshire briefing newsletter. |
| This year’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week (18–24 November) highlights the urgent need to act and use antibiotics responsibly. Join free, expert-led webinars to deepen your understanding, learn more about best practice, and gain practical strategies to combat AMR in your work. |
1 WEEK TO GO FOR COMPLETION!Pharmacy owners will receive emails from NHSBSA asking them to complete the mandatory online survey. The survey will closes on Friday 21st November 2025. If you have not completed this survey please be reminded that it is MANDATORY for ALL pharmacy contractors. |
Monthly Deadline TrackerStay on top of your schedule with ease using our Monthly Deadline Tracker. This November edition is designed to keep you organized and help you meet your deadline effortlessly. |
| Solutions 4 Health invites Oxfordshire pharmacies to express interest in delivering the Level 2 Smoking Cessation Service for Smokefree Oxon. Advisors must complete NCSCT training and attend a face-to-face Level 2 session provided by Smokefree Oxon. For payment details and training requirements, please refer to the SLA. To register interest by 19th November 2025, email smokefreeoxon.s4h@nhs.net with staff numbers, roles, availability (including weekends and bank holidays), and experience with Level 2 cessation and PharmOutcomes. |
Frimley ICB is offering full funding for a limited number of pharmacists to complete the Certificate in Advanced History Taking and Clinical Assessment. This initiative is to support the role of pharmacists in Primary Care, equip them with vital skills in patient assessment, clinical decision-making and prescribing - it aligns with services like the NHS Pharmacy First scheme. Interested pharmacists should submit an expression of interest by Friday 14th November. Learn more about the course here.
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| NHS England will be hosting a webinar on 18 November at 7-8pm to update on progress of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework: 2025 - 2026. The webinar will provide service specific information on the Pharmacy Contraception Service and the New Medicine Service expansions, and will share findings from the Independent Prescribing Pathfinder Programme. Pharmacy contractors, pharmacists and other pharmacy colleagues are invited to join this event. Book your place via the NHS England website. |
| To support the introduction of anti-depressants into the New Medicine Service and to support completion of PQS requirements, CPPE has been commissioned to provide this face to face workshop. Workshop details: Sunday 23rd November Solent Hotel and Spa Whiteley Rookery Avenue, Fareham PO15 7AJ 10:00am - 12:00 noon. Booking reference: 62642 Book here. |
| From 24-27 November, all pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and wider pharmacy team members are invited to join a series of free online workshops. Co-produced by 16 national pharmacy partners, sessions will focus on building more diverse leadership in pharmacy, improving patient experiences and reducing health inequalities. Register via the CPPE website. |
| CPPE is running another new face to face workshop in Thames Valley, focusing on blood pressure assessment in community pharmacy on 20th Nov 2025 in Cookham (Thu evening) and 8th Feb 2026 in High Wycombe (Sun morning) These sessions will be supported by a clinical demonstrator, a pharmacist who is delivery this service in community, look forward to great interactive, hands on, practical sessions. See here for further details. |
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