PH Campaign Reporting Window Now Open (closes 27 June)
CPAF Screening Questionnaire (closes 30 June)
PHARMACIST TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Vaccination Training for 2019/20 Flu Season - Various Dates and Times
Wirral Contractors - Anti-Cholinergic Burden and Clozapine Care - 26 June, Arrowe Park
Warrington Contractors - Sexual Health Training - 2 July, Warrington
Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Service - Various Dates and Times
CPCW NEWS
Contractor Event - Simon Dukes Presentation and Speech now available to view
CPCW Office Email Address Changes
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SERVICE NEWS
CHESHIRE WEST & CHESTER CONTRACTORS - SHARPS WASTE COLLECTION
Please be reminded that Cheshire West and Chester Council have sent out a communication via PharmOutcomes regarding the Sharps Waste Collection contract.
If you would like to provide a sharps waste collection service you will need to read, sign and return a copy to the council.
If you work for a multiple please ensure that you follow your own defined process for signing up to a new contract.
NUMSAS (Repeat of Article from Last Week's Edition)
When NUMSAS started, any patient who needed an emergency supply when their GP surgery was open was referred back to their practice.
This has changed.
In-hours referrals for NUMSAS are now happening. Patients will not be referred to their GP practice if they contact NHS111 in-hours. Instead, the patient will be referred to a NUMSAS pharmacy. The emergency supply regulations allow for in-hours emergency supplies. Patients should not be refused on the grounds of their surgery being open and a supply via NUMSAS should be made as long as it is legally and clinically appropriate.
PHARMACY CONTRACTS AND MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION REPORTING WINDOW NOW OPEN
Please be aware that the window to report participation in the Children's Oral Health/Smile Month Campaign on PharmOutcomes is now open and will close at 11.59pm on 27 June 2019.
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 **’.
Please remember participation is a contractual requirement and failure to participate may result in a breach notice being issued
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the LPC.
CPAF SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE
Community pharmacy contractors are reminded that the 2019/20 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire is now available for completion; it will remain open until Sunday 30 June so please make sure you have a plan to meed this deadline.
Well done to the 64% of CPCW pharmacies who have already completed it.
Further information is available on the PSNC website.
Please note: Level 2 is the minimum standard expected to demonstrate general compliance with the terms of service.
Please contact the LPC if you require any help or support with the process.
PHARMACIST TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Vaccination Training for 2019/20 Flu Season
CPCW and Sonar Informatics would like to invite you to attend practical vaccination training for Flu, Travel & other PGDs.
We are offering Flu vaccination training at a reduced price of £79+vat.
[ ] Flu refresher Training (online if you trained last year)
£29+ VAT
[ ]Travel Clinic Training Includes PGDs for: Cholera, DTP, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis A+B (combined), hepatitis A + typhoid (combined), Japanese B encephalitis, malaria prophylaxis, meningitis ACWY, jetlag, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, travellers’ diarrhoea, typhoid and yellow fever**
**Yellow fever requires specialist additional training
[ ] £369+ VAT for 1st Pharmacist
[ ] £199+VAT for 2nd Pharmacist
There are 3 training dates available:
Monday 24 June 2019 | 7pm – 10.30pm | Village Hotel Liverpool, Fallows Way, Whiston, Liverpool, L35 1RZ
Sunday 11 August 2019 | 1pm - 4.30pm | Holiday Inn Runcorn, Wood Lane, Beechwood, Cheshire, Runcorn, WA7 3HA
Sunday 11 August 2019 | 1pm - 4.30pm | Princess St. Hotel, 18-24 Princess St, Manchester M1 4LG
If you have regular locum pharmacists who require training - please pass on the details of these training events and booking code.
If you work for a multiple, please check before booking onto any training as this may be arranged centrally.
WIRRAL CONTRACTORS
Anti-Cholinergic Burden and Clozapine Care Presentation
26 June 2019 | Venue: Education Centre, Arrowe Park Hospital| 6.00pm (Tea & Coffee) for 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Anti-Cholinergic Burden and Clozapine Care is the next training session to be hosted by the Healthy Wirral Medicines Optimisation Partners.
Specialist Mental Health Pharmacists, Cheshire & Wirral Partnership
NHS Foundation Trust, will be discussing the following:
What is Anticholinergic Burden?
Risks and significance in practice
Impact in dementia
Practical steps and advice for Pharmacists to reduce anticholinergic burden.
Clozapine use in Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia
Caring for patients prescribed clozapine
Please contact Rebecca Hellier on r.hellier@nhs.net by Friday 22nd June to reserve your free place. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
WARRINGTON CONTRACTORS - SEXUAL HEALTH TRAINING
2 July 2019 | Warrington Town Hall, Sankey Street, Warrington, WA1 1UH | 6.30pm-8.00pm
Pharmacists, team members, and locums particularly aimed at those who currently provide sexual health services or want to develop their knowledge, but also for those who would like to offer these services or would like to find out more information.
Areas that will be covered during the evening include:
Warrington Borough Council Public Health
Pharmacy Contract / Specification / PGD’s
Updates on PharmOutcomes; templates, processes, data and claims
Training options & needs (Declaration of Competence, CPPE)
Bridgewater
Updates in clinical practice led by the sexual health consultant
EHC updates
EHC PGDs (levonorgestrel & Ulipristal acetate)
Quickstart PGDs
Connect (condoms & STI testing) & processing of chlamydia testing & payments
Community Pharmacy Cheshire & Wirral (CPCW) – Nick Thayer, Pharmacy Services Manager
Role and footprint of the LPC
Support and contact information
To attend, could you email jacqueline.burns@warrington.gov.uk the names of the people due to attend and the pharmacy branch you represent (by Monday 24 June at the latest, so refreshments can be ordered in advance and room layout confirmed).
COMMUNITY BLOOD PRESSURE PHARMACY CONTRACTORS ONLY - TRAINING DATES
Various Dates and Times
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 book at the following links:
CONTRACTOR EVENT - SIMON DUKE PRESENTATION AND SPEECH NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW
The LPCs in the Cheshire & Mersey area* recently organised a contractor event on the evening of Wednesday 5 June. All the LPCs were present and we were joined for a keynote speech by Simon Dukes, Chief Executive of PSNC who gave us insights and updates onto what's next for community pharmacy in England. We recorded his presentation and speech and are delighted to be able to share this for viewing by the contractors and pharmacy teams who were not able to join us on the evening.
We did have the opportunity for a Q&A session, however this was not able to be recorded due to the format of the event & room. The contact details on the final slide are live and any questions you may have for Simon he is encouraging you to ask via his chiefexec@psnc.org.uk email address.
* The Association of Mersey Pharmaceutical Committees consists of Community Pharmacy Cheshire and Wirral, Liverpool LPC, Halton St Helens & Knowsley LPC and Sefton LPC
CPCW OFFICE EMAIL ADDRESSES HAVE CHANGED
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