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GMLPC Newsletter - Highlighting the latest news, training and alerts for Pharmacy Contractors across Greater Manchester
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Weekly Bulletin
Issue: 9
Date: 7th December 2016
 
This week's topics:
  • Tell us what we can do for you
  • Changes to registration for NHSMail
  • PSNC CPCF changes hub page
  • Locality News - Tameside
  • New public health campaign resources
  • Should community pharmacy do HIV testing?
  • Reporting tool for supply issues
  • PHE calls for greater role for community pharmacy
  • You & Yours on pharmacy funding
 
Tell us what your new LPC can do for you
 
We want to know what services and support are your top priorities for GM LPC.  There’s a lot going on in pharmacy right now so we need to focus LPC time and resources on delivering what you really want from us. Help us do that by completing this quick survey on your top priorities, service needs, and how we can make it as easy as possible for you to keep up to date with key information and training.   
Changes to registration for NHSMail (nhs.net email)

Community pharmacists must be able to send and receive nhs.net emails (NHSMail) in order to meet the gateway criteria for Quality Payments. The process for registering for NHSMail accounts if you do not have one already changed on 1st December 2016. It is now handled centrally by NHS England and NHS Digital rather than by local organisation administrators (LOAs).

The new approach is being rolled out in phases and the North West is in Phase 2 – scheduled for January 2017.

Details are still being finalised and we will post the information here as soon as it’s available. In the meantime, no new NHSMail accounts are being created for pharmacists in the North West. The PSNC website has further information.
CPCF changes 2016/17 and 2017/18

Keep an eye on the PSNC hub page to keep updated on all the latest developments.

This provides links to other pages on the website, which provide further details on the changes to the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF).
Locality news –
Tameside MP visits

Two Tameside MPs have visited community pharmacies in their constituencies to show their support and raise awareness of the healthcare they provide. GM LPC arranged the visits to highlight the role of community pharmacy.
 
Andrew Gwynne MP (Lab, Denton & Reddish) visited Windmill Pharmacy in Denton, where he heard about the impact that funding changes will have on a small independent pharmacy on a large housing estate with no other health services. Mr Gwynne is a Shadow Health Minister and promised to continue fighting for community pharmacy funding.
 
Jonathan Reynolds MP (Lab, Stalybridge & Hyde) visited Well Pharmacy in Hyde and was keen to encourage people to make pharmacy their first port of call for health queries and concerns. 
 
Gill Stone, GM LPC’s Tameside Locality Lead, attended the visits and said: “Both MPs were extremely positive about the value of community pharmacy and very much enjoyed meeting pharmacy staff and patients. We were able to show our local MPs the range of fantastic services that Tameside pharmacies are providing, and the contribution they make to the NHS.”
 
Other Greater Manchester MPs are also visiting pharmacies in their constituencies arranged by GM LPC.
Free resources for new public health campaign
You can register now for free resources to support a major public health pilot and advertising campaign across the Granada TV region in February.

The campaign aims to prevent antimicrobial resistance by raising public awareness about inappropriate use of antibiotics, and changing their expectations and behaviour.

Public Health England is providing free campaign resources (e.g. leaflets and posters) to community pharmacists and other health professionals involved in prescribing and dispensing antibiotics.

You can register and pre-order materials now at: 
https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/58 

Resources will be sent out in January and strictly embargoed until the campaign begins in February. (Please note the pilot is only running in the Granada region and the resources must not be used anywhere else.)
Should community pharmacies do HIV testing?

NICE certainly thinks so and their new guidance for commissioners and community service providers recommends that pharmacies should be considered as a way of increasing access and take-up of HIV testing. It states: “Providers of community testing services (including outreach and detached services) should set up testing services in: areas with a high prevalence or extremely high prevalence of HIV, using venues such as pharmacies or voluntary sector premises (for example, those of faith groups).”
You can read their recommendations here. 
Latest drug stock and supply issues/ update

The GMLPC has set up a reporting tool for Community Pharmacists to log supply issues. You can access this tool here or by copying this link into your browser:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pharmacystockissues

This is a new tool launched in November 2016 by GMLPC building on the tool utilised by Manchester and Salford and Trafford LPC.  

If you have any feedback, please email the GMLPC office on enquiries@gmlpc.org.uk.

The tool is organic, it can be adapted and changed so we welcome your thoughts, we just don’t want to make it too long!

Going forward the LPC will update our newsletter with prevalent stock issues and we will also report all supply issues direct to the relevant medicines management teams.
Health Campaign Dates
December
World Aids Day - 1/12/2016
DECEMBEARD 
1st - 31st December

January
Dry January
1st - 31st January

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
22nd - 28th January
Useful Links
GMLPC Website

PSNC

Pharmacy Voice

RPS

NPA

Public Health England

Devolution Manchester

Twitter

EPS tracker guide
 
Public health calls for greater role for community pharmacy

Public Health England and the Royal Society for Public Health have published a new report calling for greater use of community pharmacy for promoting public health messages and supporting people to live healthier lifestyles.
The report highlights the value of services including pharmacy-based weight management, smoking cessation and Healthy Living Pharmacies schemes, but also notes the challenges that pharmacy faces in areas where it doesn’t have a seat at health and wellbeing boards, for example, or isn’t high on the commissioning agenda. 
You can read the report here. 
Catch-up: You & Yours on pharmacy funding

Radio 4 consumer programme You & Yours featured pharmacy funding last Friday. It was the first item in the programme and you can hear it here.
Things you may have missed
 
The most recent Pharmacy Voice Newsletter can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/2h27GPY
The most recent Primary Care Talk can be viewed here: https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/primary-care-talk-october-2016/
The most recent Community Pharmacy News can be viewed here: ow.ly/zkuG3069Am2
Latest CSfPP newsletter -  Read the newsletter at: ow.ly/aHbD304nFM4
Contact Information
Email: enquiries@gmlpc.org.uk
Phone: 0161 228 6163
Website http://psnc.org.uk/greater-manchester-lpc
Address: Suite 9-10, Barlow House, Minshull Street, Manchester, M1 3DZ
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