Stoptober Public Health Reporting - Deadline 14 November
Cheshire West and Chester 'Play Your Part' Survey
SERVICE NEWS
Cheshire East Sexual Health Services
Cheshire Think Pharmacy Minor Ailments Service
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (Re-run of last week's article)
Video Guide and Locum Checklist
Annex C
Urgent Supply Top Tips
111 Online Referral Guidance
PHARMACY CONTRACTS AND MANAGEMENT
Christmas Opening Hours - DoS Profile Updater
PHARMACIST TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
VirtualOutcomes PQS Training Module
VR, EC and SC CCG Contractors - Communication Skills - Various Dates/Locations
Community Blood Pressure Pharmacy Contractors Only - Various Dates, Venues and Times
Warrington Contractors - Sexual Health Service - 26 November, Town Hall
CPPE CPCS - Clinical Assessment Essential Skills Workshop - Various Date and Venues
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CPCW NEWS
PRIMARY CARE NETWORK (PCN) - ALIGNMENT AND LEAD VOLUNTEERS
*** PLEASE ENSURE YOU REPLY - TO DATE ONLY 21% OF BRANCHES HAVE DONE SO ***
On 29 October the LPC sent important PCN information to NHSmail accounts. If you haven't already replied can you do so before 13 November to ensure there is no delay in the process enabling contractors to declare this Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) domain.
COMMUNITY PHARMACIST CONSULTATION SERVICE (CPCS) - ANNEX C
Recently the LPC has received a number of requests for information relating to the CPCS which is available in Annex C.
This is to reminder of where you can find the information:
NHHS (Cheshire and Merseyside) have completed Annex C for you and this was sent to your NHS Shared Mailbox on 22 October
The Annexes can also be found on PharmOutcomes as supporting documents on a service module named 'CPCS Annex C Details'
PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION REPORTING WINDOW OPEN UNTIL 14 NOVEMBER
The Stoptober public health campaign has now ended. Please remember to upload your activity to PharmOutcomes by 14 November. A week into the reporting window and just over half of branches have reported - please make sure you report if you haven't already done so.
To access the reporting template please log onto PharmOutcomes; clicking on the Service Tab takes you to the Services screen. The left hand side of the screen shows a list of services under the header “Provide Services”; these are the services you have been accredited to provide. The PH Campaign data entry template will be listed under the heading ‘** Health Promotion Campaign **’.
CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER CONTRACTORS - 'PLAY YOUR PART' SURVEY
Cheshire West and Chester Council has launched an innovative engagement exercise called ‘Play Your Part’ to give residents, businesses, partners, young people and community groups the chance to share ideas about how we can improve the borough.
Play Your Part centres on five key challenges the borough faces, including climate change, supporting children, supporting adults, improving local neighbourhoods and boosting the local economy.
They would like as many people as possible to have their say on what the Council’s focus should be for the next four years, including how the budget should be spent and how their communities could get more involved. The Council has also set out proposals for bridging its funding gap.
There are lots of ways you can get involved:
See the dedicated website www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/playyourpart Here you can fill in a survey, vote in quick polls and post thoughts on online ideas boards. You can choose to engage with all of the challenges or just those that interest you most.
Take part through social media – tweet @Go_CheshireWest using #playyourpartcw,
This engagement exercise will be open from 10 October until 5 December 2019.
SERVICE NEWS
CHESHIRE EAST SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES FAO Pharmacies in Cheshire East providing EHC and Quick Start
As you are aware Cheshire East Council now commission Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust and they will be contacting you shortly with a new contract and SLA for the sexual health services you provide.
They will continue to use PharmOutcomes for the recording and invoicing of the services.
If you wish to continue to provide these service please read, review, sign and return the contracts and SLA when you receive it.
CHESHIRE THINK PHARMACY MINOR AILMENTS SERVICE
The LPC has recently discovered that some branches are entering information incorrectly when they are completing the Think Pharmacy MAS PharmOutcomes template which has resulted in an underpayment for providing the service. This has now been resolved and the branches contacted.
When entering the Number of Levies Collected please enter the number of fees collected and NOT the fee amount.
COMMUNITY PHARMACIST CONSULTATION SERVICE (Re-run of article in last week's newsletter)
Video Guide and Locum Checklist
PharmOutcomes have released the second of their video guides to the new Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.
This short video covers the pharmacy follow-up stage and, as the service is now live, we recommend that all staff involved in the provision of CPCS watch it; please share with your locum and relief pharmacists. Please be reminded that the LPC has produced a locum checklist to help with the successful delivery of the service.
Annex C
The Area Team have also completed Annex C for you - this has been sent to your NHS Shared Mailbox and should be made available to all staff delivering the service. They Annexes can also be found on PharmOutcomes as supporting documents on a service module named 'CPCS Annex C Details'. Urgent Supply Top Tips
The LPC has prepared a briefing to help you to start your preparations for the Urgent Supply element of the CPCS service, which was previously called NUMSAS. This can be accessed on the LPC website at https://www.cpcw.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2019/10/CPCS-Urgent-Supply-Top-Tips.pdf
If you have not already done so, please can you ensure that you update your DoS profile with your Christmas Opening Hours using the following link - https://www.directoryofservices.nhs.uk
Unless Directed to open by NHSE, you can choose what hours you wish to open on:
Christmas Day (25 December 2019)
Boxing Day (26 December 2019)
New Year’s Day (1 January 2020)
If you have had any supplementary hours changes for Christmas Eve and New year’s Eve that have been changed AND AGREED by NHSE, please also ensure that your DoS profile is up to date.
Opening hours information is held by NHS 111 and patients will be directed according to opening times held on this directory.
Please note – In order to claim for a quality payment (for the digital enablers domain) the window closes for you to update your profile at 11:59 on 30 November 2019.
PHARMACIST TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
VIRTUALOUTCOMES PHARMACY QUALITY SCHEME TRAINING MODULE NOW AVAILABLE
Do you know what the 4 gateway criteria are for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme?
Do you understand all the Quality Criteria Bundles?
To make it easier to navigate, our training is divided into separate modules allowing you and the team to easily access the information you require to implement the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS)
The five modules are:
1. Overview and Gateway
2. Risk Management
3. Medicines Safety and Quality
4. Prevention
5. Asthma, PCNs and Digital Enablers
KEY COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN THE WORKPLACE: OPEN TO VALE ROYAL, EAST CHESHIRE AND SOUTH CHESHIRE PHARMACIES
Various Dates, Locations and Times
A Half-Day Interactive Workshop
Do you face communication situations that feel difficult? Are you left feeling that you don’t know what to say or how best to start that conversation? If so, this workshop can give you the opportunity to gain insight into communication skills and strategies that can help you engage more confidently and effectively.
Who is it for?
All health and social care professionals who come into contact with patients/residents/clients (and their families) towards the end of life. End of life can mean any time from when a person is diagnosed or realises that they have a life limiting illness
Course Overview
An introduction to using the ‘Simple Skills Secrets’ approach – an easily remembered visual model for any professional, in any setting or situation where faced with unanswerable questions or who maybe unsure how to respond
Responding sensitively to someone who is distressed or dissatisfied
How to safely respond to cues
Assisting the formulation of the person’s own plan
Cost
Funded places for people employed in South Cheshire, Vale Royal and Eastern Cheshire localities. If you are unsure whether you are eligible for a funded place please call to discuss. £40 to staff working outside these areas.
Course dates
Thursday 14 November 2019 - Winterley Grange – 9:00 – 12:00
Friday 22 November 2019 - St Luke’s Hospice – 13:00 – 16:00
COMMUNITY BLOOD PRESSURE PHARMACY CONTRACTORS ONLY
Various Dates, Times and Venues (see below)
This training is appropriate for new contractors who have been successful in their application to take part in the BHF pilot as well as existing BHF pharmacies (BHF1, BHF2 and NHS England BP expansion service) who need more or new members of staff trained where there has been changes.
The training will have a strong practical focus and will include the following six key elements:
What is blood pressure?
Physiology
How to take a Blood Pressure
What does the result mean?
Lifestyle Advice and Onward Referral
Assessment
To register your attendance please click on the appropriate date below:
*** CANCELLED *** 20 November - The Vicarage Freehouse and Rooms, Crewe, CW4 8EF, 1.30pm-4.30pm
3 December - Runcorn Town Hall, WA7 5TD, 1.30pm-4pm
19 February - Firwood Bootle Cricket Club, L20 2DD, 10am-1pm
27 February - Orford Jubilee Hub, WA2 8HE, 1.30pm-4.30pm
Please be reminded that this is a ticketed event and if you are not booked on, with a confirmed Eventbrite booking email, then please do not attend as you might be turned away.
WARRINGTON CONTRACTORS: SEXUAL HEALTH PHARMACY TRAINING (Open to all Warrington pharmacy staff to find out more about the service/refresher)
Tuesday 26 November | (6pm) 6.30pm-8pm | Town Hall Chamber, Sankey Street, Warrington, WA1 1UH (free parking after 6pm)
There will be attendance and presentations from sexual health staff and Public Health commissioners and the evening will cover:
More NHS Community pharmacist consultation service: clinical assessment - essential skills workshop events have become available to book on the CPPE website.
23/01/20 Cotton Court Business Centre, Preston, PR1 3BY. Event ID 49666
09/02/20 Holiday Inn Express, Leigh, WN7 4JY. Event ID 49659
08/03/20 Holiday Inn Runcorn, Beechwood, WA7 5HA. Event ID 49672
15/03/20 Stonybeck Inn, Penrith, CA11 8RP. Event ID 49673
As a reminder, CPPE have been commissioned by HEE to run these face to face workshops to support the delivery of CPCS.
The workshops are facilitated by CPPE tutors and supported by a GP trainer and a clinical demonstrator.
Participants work through the following topics:
person-centred history taking
clinical assessment and red flags
common clinical examinations
safety netting and referrals.
The day includes brief presentations, demonstration, group work, case studies and a practical session to practice a range of basic clinical examinations and observations. The GP trainer will share examples of best practice and experiences from their own practice.
The link to book on to these events can be found HERE
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