A number of COVID-19 related payments for community pharmacy contractors have been announced in recent months and PSNC has produced a summary of how to claim for these payments (if required) and how each payment will be made for the month of July.
Payment adjustments include those for the Early May Bank Holiday, the Pandemic Delivery Service and the installation of protective barriers.
ALL THE IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE MONTH IN ONE PLACE
The July edition of the Deadline Tracker is now available to help keep you on track with your monthly tasks and to meet local and national deadlines.
The Tracker can be downloaded from the LPC website here.
The LPC would welcome any feedback on the tracker and will consider suggestions for future versions.
REPORTING MEDICINES SHORTAGES (Standing Item)
Please continue to help PSNC help you and give them evidence to negotiate a decent concession price, report all medicine prices that are invoiced at more than tariff.
Can all contractors please remember to continue report any new medicine shortages not listed on the SPS website using PSNCs online reporting form if you have not been able to source stock of a medicine from any supplier or manufacturer.
If a medicine is not affected by a shortage but is unavailable to purchase from your supplier(s) at or below the Drug Tariff listed price, please report the pricing issue to PSNC to consider a request for a price concession.
SERVICE NEWS
CHESHIRE EAST CONTRACTORS: QUICK START PGD
Can contractors who deliver the EHC service please look out for a message from Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust regarding information on the updated Quick Start PGD and take any necessary action.
A copy of the updated document can be found on the LPC website and also within the service support section of the PharmOutcomes service template.
PHARMACY CONTRACTS AND MANAGEMENT
COMMUNITY PHARMACY CONSULTATION AUDIT: W/C 29 JUNE 2020
*** IF YOU HAVEN'T YET COMPLETED THIS PLEASE DO SO TODAY OR TOMORROW **
Community pharmacy contractors can now access guidance about the upcoming pharmacy advice clinical audit, including full details of how to take part in the audit.
As announced last week, community pharmacy teams are being encouraged to take part in an audit that will capture information about the advice they give to visitors to their pharmacy. The audit, which can be carried out as one of your contractual (clinical) audit for 2020/21, should be carried out on a single day THIS week commencing Monday 29 June.
To successfully complete the audit, pharmacy teams will need to:
Record patient/customer interactions where advice was given by either a non-pharmacist team member and/or a pharmacist.
Carry this out for one whole day recording all consultations. (To be a valid audit, each pharmacy needs to achieve at least 20 consultations, therefore a small number will need to continue for a second day.)
Estimate the percentage of consultations that were recorded during that time period (this is to recognise that some consultations may be missed).
Rate your confidence in the advice given to help identify areas for improvement to reflect on post-audit.
Enter the data on PharmOutcomes.
A team briefing sheet and audit template are now available to support contractors and their teams in preparing to undertake this audit. The briefing sheet sets out the criteria for inclusion, what needs to be recorded and how to reflect on your pharmacy's results. It also answers some frequently asked questions as identified during testing with a small number of pharmacies. The audit template provides a simple way to record the required data, making things smoother for data entry onto PharmOutcomes
This audit will help demonstrate the added value your pharmacy team delivers and, alongside data from other pharmacies, will assist PSNC in gathering evidence to support the ongoing funding negotiations, including our call for more investment in the sector.
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