| Weekly News Digest - 2nd January 2025 |
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Happy New Year!As we welcome the New Year, we want to extend ur sincerest gratitude to all our pharmacy contractors for your unwavering dedication and hard work throughout 2024. Your commitment to providing exceptional care and service to our community has been truly remarkable. Let's make 2025 even more successful together! |
CPPE are running a face to face, 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.
Don't miss out, reserve your place here using the booking code PcsCPTV0125 (case sensitive). Don't miss the postworkshop webinar for further insights for further information see here. |
| The LPC recently secured a 50% increase in remuneration of the EHC Service across East Berkshire (Pharmacies within Bracknell, Slough and RBWM). Requests for Pharmacies to take part in this very important service were recently sent out, but responses have been low. We realise how busy how you all are that this time of year, but would appreciate a high level of participation from those Community Pharmacies in East Berkshire. See here for service specification and PGDs. |
| Public Health Oxfordshire County Council invites community pharmacies in Oxfordshire to sign up for the Take-Home Naloxone Service. With the rise of potent synthetic opioids like nitazenes, expanding access to naloxone is crucial. Evidence shows naloxone effectively reverses the effects of these opioids, essential for those at risk but not in treatment. Full details are in the attached service specification. For questions or to sign up, contact Ify Enemuo at Ify.Enemuo@Oxfordshire.gov.uk or call 07554 103332. |
| With New Year’s Day (1 January 2025) occurring in the first five days of the FP34C submission window, pharmacy owners will have an extra day, until the end of 6 January 2025, to submit their December FP34Cs using the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal and to dispatch their prescription bundle to the relevant pricing division at the NHSBSA. |
| Visit our website to view a very useful webinar detailing the minor ailments clinical pathway. |
| Read the latest edition of Healthwatch Oxfordshire newsletter here. |
We would like to remind contractors with ABPM devices that they will need to calibrate the blood pressure monitors periodically (according to the manufacturers' instructions). See here for excerpt from the specification.
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A Grateful Farewell to Robert Bradshaw We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Robert Bradshaw, who is stepping down from his role as Chair of Thames Valley LPC after nine years of dedicated service. Robert has been a brilliant supporter of contractors over those years, bringing invaluable experience and wisdom to our committee. He will continue to serve as Superintendent of Oxford Online Pharmacy and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors. A new Chair will be selected from the current committee during our next LPC meeting on January 22nd. |
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. |
| Pharmacy teams providing Pharmacy First are asked to help promote the survey. Please encourage as many responses as possible, the survey has been designed to be quick and easy to complete; during testing, most patients took around two minutes to complete it. Please promote the survey using the provided resources. |
| Original Pack Dispensing flexibility starts from 1st January 2025, see here for more information. |
| Earlier this year, the Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) launched a podcast series addressing issues and myths about the Pharmacy First service. The series features pharmacy colleagues and clinical experts discussing the seven clinical conditions, plus an episode on paediatrics. Click here. |
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