| Weekly News Digest - 6th February 2025 |
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JOIN OUR TEAM!We're looking for an LPC Committee Member representing Independent Contractors. Interested in making a difference? Please complete and return the attached nomination form or fill out the online version by 12 noon on Friday, 14th February 2025. If nominations exceed available places, an election will be held, and voting papers will be distributed to eligible contractors. Join us in shaping the future! |
Community Pharmacy England has launched its fourth annual Pressures Survey, and Community Pharmacy Thames Valley is asking pharmacy owners and staff to share their views.
This important annual survey provides crucial evidence to monitor and quantify the intolerable challenges facing the community pharmacy sector. Results from the survey are used to raise awareness in the national media and Parliament, and to demonstrate the impact of the crisis in community pharmacy. The data may also be used by Community Pharmacy Thames Valley to respond to media queries and in conversations with local MPs.
Community Pharmacy Thames Valley is focused on supporting national efforts to raise awareness of critical pressures facing community pharmacy. Taking part in the Pressures Survey will help to support this.
Survey Information
The survey consists of two separate surveys; one for pharmacy business owners/head office representatives and the other specifically for pharmacy teams. Expected to take around 10–15 minutes to complete, both surveys will remain open until 23:59 on 28th February 2025. For more information and to complete either of two separate surveys, visit the Community Pharmacy England website.
Community Pharmacy England has asked us to extend their thanks for your continued support in completing these surveys during this busy time. They have confirmed that the data collected will be used directly in discussions with policymakers as they advocate for support and sustained core investment for community pharmacies.
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| You will be aware of the difficulties in sourcing Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT). The attached document summarises actions to be taken by clinicians as detailed in the NatPSAs and provides information on the local arrangement in place for community pharmacies to obtain alternative imported stock. |
The NHS App team seeks your assistance in identifying community pharmacies to measure baseline benefits for prescription tracking and gather feedback on future NHS App roadmap items. They are particularly interested in a diverse range of pharmacies to help measure baseline benefits for prescription tracking and provide their views on upcoming NHS App features aimed at enhancing the medicines ordering journey, such as surfacing medicine review dates to facilitate proactive appointment booking. If you are interested, please contact Jo Cameron at jo.cameron5@nhs.net. |
| Community Pharmacy England’s in-house Drug Tariff and funding experts have created a new video providing guidance on how handling ‘FS’ endorsed prescriptions for free supply of sexual health treatments. See here for more information. |
| From this week, you can update your contact information and opening times on the NHS Profile Manager, this also updates your UEC Directory of Services (DoS) profiles. See here for more details on how to register your account. |
Recognition of Excellence Awards 2025The Recognition of Excellence (RoE) Awards continuing to champion the work of community pharmacy staff across the UK and are pleased to announce that the RoE Awards are now open for entries. Pharmacy teams from across the UK are encouraged to nominate themselves or colleagues before the closing date 4 April 2025 at: https://www.roeawards.co.uk. See here for more information on how to enter. |
| Download the latest edition of the BOB Medicines Optimisation Bulletin. |
| Download the latest edition of the Frimley ICB Prescribing Newsletter. |
| The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) produces a quarterly newsletter called “Hints & Tips for dispensing contractors”. Download the latest edition (Issue 58). |
The revised threshold for February is 25 clinical pathway consultations. Please remember that you only have 3 months to submit a claim after consultation, ie for February 2025 the last date is 5th May 2025. Click here. |
| NHS England, Workforce, Education & Training South East Pharmacy Technician team will be hosting a webinar to showcase the variety of apprenticeships available to those considering pharmacy as a career. We will be highlighting the role of pharmacy support staff, trainee pharmacy technicians, science manufacturing process operatives and science manufacturing technicians and their associated apprenticeships. The event will be held on “Apprentice Wednesday” - Wednesday 12th February, 6.30 - 7.30pm. Our target audience is school and college students, parents, carers, career leads/teachers and even those looking to change careers. See here for registration details. |
Community Pharmacy Englad has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by 30th June 2025. To support with completing your 2025 toolkit submission CPE will be holding a webinar on Thursday 13th February at 7.30pm. See here for information on how to register. |
| Webinars about the future of collaborative pharmacy professional leadership will be held from 3rd to 25th February 2025. The webinars are open to all pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and wider pharmacy team. Membership in a professional leadership body is not required. Why Attend? Contribute to shaping a more collaborative approach to pharmacy professional leadership that benefits patients and professionals alike. Register: See here for dates and sign-up links. |
If you have questions about the NHS Pharmacy contraception service, CPPE is running an online NHS Pharmacy Contraception service (PCS) - panel discussion. Dates: 26th February 2025 and 12th March 2025 from 7pm to 8pm. This webinar is a panel discussion includes representatives from NHSE, CPE and pharmacists delivering the contraception service. To register, click here.
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