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 Provision of Community Health Services – DPS Electronic Procurement Process is now LIVE
Dorset County Council have given notice that the electronic procurement process in Dorset is now live and any pharmacy wishing to deliver services must apply online to become an approved provider. Only those who have completed this process will be able to bid to provide services. The first Lots (services) will be opening after 1st September and if you wish to be included you MUST register as soon as possible. The Dorset LPC website has full details on how to do this.
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 PSNC has reached agreement with the NHS on a community pharmacy funding settlement worth £2.8 billion for the 2015/16 financial year.
The agreement sees the introduction of a new Advanced Service - a flu vaccination service - along with some changes to the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF).
Detailed information, including a series of PSNC Briefings which have been written to help contractors to understand the agreement, new service and changes to the CPCF, are available on the PSNC website.
Training providers for the 2015-2016 Seasonal Influenza Service
A list containing website links, contact details, and details of full training and refresher training, including a brief description of course content and fees is available on the Dorset LPC website.
 Provision of Influenza Immunisation in Community Pharmacies for eligible Local Authority Staff and Contractors in Dorset. Public Health Dorset are offering pharmacies the opportunity to sign up to provide influenza immunisation for eligible Local Authority Staff and Contractors for the period 1st September 2015 to 29th February 2016. The Service Level Agreement, participation agreement document and covering letter from Public Health Dorset are on the Dorset LPC website. If you wish to provide this service, complete and return the agreement for the attention of Barbara O’Reilly, Public Health Dorset Team, Princes House, Princes Street, Dorchester, DT1 1TP or via email b.oreilly@dorsetcc.gov.uk by Friday 14th August 2015. The PGD is currently being revised and will be circulated by Public Health Dorset as soon as possible, however, if you are signed up to a private PGD then is this satisfactory to provide this service. |
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Summary Care Record access is to be rolled out to community pharmacies across England following a proof of concept trial of community pharmacy access.
NHS England has commissioned the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) to support all community pharmacies in England to implement access to the SCR.
More than 96% of the population have an SCR and it is already being used in A&E departments, hospital pharmacies, NHS 111, GP out of hours services and walk in centres.
More information, including how national pharmacy bodies are supporting the roll out, is available at: dld.bz/dHAqK
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Direction of prescriptions
Is there anything that can be done if a large number of patients have stopped coming to your pharmacy, possibly as a consequence of a mailshot by other pharmacies? PSNC have advice and FAQs on their website. They also have a template letter to send to patients who have stopped visiting a pharmacy, which can be modified locally.
- Be proactive and inform patients about local services, explain EPS, obtain consent and set nomination and help them undo mistakes! If they have stopped using the pharmacy find out why, is it poor service or a mistake?
- Help patients to understand when they may have unwittingly signed for a distance selling pharmacy to supply their prescriptions.
- Contact PSNC. It is using software to analyse scripts which should help identify how many items from each practice are going elsewhere.
- Provide information about where patients are being misled, EPS or paper FP10s, to the PSNC.
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 PSNC Endorsing & Submission Good Practice Webinar – how to avoid common errors, is now available on-demand.
Community pharmacy teams can now access an online recording of PSNC’s recent webinar on the dos and don’ts of endorsing and submitting prescriptions. More than 1,350 people tuned in to the webinar on 30th June when PSNC’s in-house Drug Tariff experts conducted the live webinar.
This workshop is a valuable resource for anyone involved in dispensing and end of month processes. So whether you missed out or you just want to watch again, you can find an on-demand recording of the webinar at: www.psnc.org.uk/webinar
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Community Pharmacy Boxing Day Opening: 26 December 2015 
NHS England considers community pharmacy to be an important part of its system resilience and have been promoting it to the public as a first stop for self-care and professional advice to people who are “feeling under the weather”. In order to support this they will be expecting all primary care contractors whose contracted hours include Saturdays, to open as usual on 26 December 2015 as it is not a bank holiday. Local arrangements will be put in place to ensure adequate pharmaceutical services are available on the Boxing Day Bank Holiday on 28th December 2015.
Therefore, for Saturday 26 December, changes to opening hours are as per the normal requirements:
- At least 90 days’ notice to change supplementary hours
- Application to change core hours – but please note that any such application needs to explain why the pharmaceutical needs of the population are different on that day. With the above statement in mind, it is very unlikely that any applications to change core hours will be approved.
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