Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire Update 16th June 2022

UPCOMING DEADLINES

17th June 2022 - Pharmacy Review Steering Group Voting Deadline
See item in this newsletter - voting closes tomorrow!
17th June 2022 - Deadline to send Expression of Interest for opening on Christmas Day 2022

Enhanced pay rate available for two hours. See item in this newsletter

20th June 2022 - Consultation Deadline for Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

The Lincolnshire Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (2022) will be published in October 2022 to review the locations, accessibility and the services provided by pharmacies in Lincolnshire both now, and with a view to the future. To achieve the best outcomes and give residents and interested parties a chance to comment and give feedback, there is a statutory consultation period of a minimum of 60 days on the draft content. The consultation starts on 19 April and runs until 20 June 2022 (63 days). An Executive Summary and all related information are available to download using this link.

30th June 2022 - Information Governance Declaration

PSNC has published new guidance to help community pharmacy contractors to complete the 2021/22 Data Security and Protection Toolkit. Read PSNC's Toolkit guidance.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Changes to Monthly Service Transitional Payments Qualification - The requirement to do one NMS per month and be signed up for CPCS from January 2022

From 1 January 2022 pharmacy contractors who dispense 101 prescription items or more in any month will receive a monthly Transitional Payment which consists of two separate payments For the pharmacy contractors to receive the monthly service payment of the transitional payment they must have claimed for at least one New Medicine Service (NMS) in the previous month and been registered to provide the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) on the Manage Your Service (MYS) platform for greater than or equal to half of the number of full days in the previous month. In our 20th January 2022 newsletter here we covered this in more detail.

30th September 2022 - GPhC temporary register to close. Click here for more information

Pharmacy Review Steering Group Voting Deadline this Friday, 17th June,11.59pm.

The proposals put forward by the Review Steering Group (RSG) set out a range of ways in which the RSG believes PSNC and the LPCs could work better together to ensure that contractors get the best possible representation. They include setting a vision for community pharmacy, reducing duplication between LPCs and PSNC, and ensuring contractors get the same levels of support, wherever they are in the country. 

Community pharmacy contractors are being asked to consider the proposals and vote on whether they would like these changes to PSNC and the LPCs to be taken forward. Find out more about the RSG and its work at: https://pharmacy-review.org/.

Voting on the online portal closes at 11.59pm on Friday 17th June 2022.

The results of the ballot and independent scrutineer’s report will be published to the sector by Wednesday 22nd June 2022.

Expressions of interest (EOI) to open Christmas Day 25th December 2022 – Pharmacy Provision

In case you missed the email from the East Midlands team:

NHS England is looking to commission pharmacies to open for 2 hours on Christmas Day 25^th December 2022.

The remuneration on Christmas Day 2022 will be £244 per hour and pharmacies who are interested in opening on this day should email their expressions of interest and preferred opening hours to england.eastmidspharmacy@nhs.net no later than Friday 17 June 2022.

If more than the required number of expressions of interest are received per CCG/STP area, NHS England will make a decision based on those received.

In previous years a number of pharmacies have offered to open for more than 2 hours for 2 hours remuneration, if you are willing to open for a longer period than 2 hours for no additional remuneration then please indicate this on the form.

The form here: Christmas 2022 EOI letter includes the remaining bank holidays for the financial year. Christmas Day is highlighted in yellow.

Please see request from Health Education England below. HEE are asking for support in sharing a survey aimed at frontline community pharmacists who deliver CPCS and other Advanced Services:

At Health Education England (HEE) we are working closely with our colleagues at NHS England and NHS Improvement to provide training opportunities to pharmacists delivering NHS community pharmacy services across England.

During 2019-2022 CPPE and RPS delivered Pharmacy Integration Programme-funded training to support the delivery of the community pharmacist consultation service. An evaluation of this training highlighted many positive aspects and taking this further, we are commissioning the next phase of training for post-registration pharmacists delivering NHS community pharmacy services.

To collate as much frontline knowledge in the development of the training modules, we are seeking opinions from learning and education leads, frontline pharmacists, and employers.

We would appreciate the dissemination and completion of this survey by Friday 17 June 2022, to gather feedback on the commentary we have received from the employer groups and gain an understanding of frontline pharmacists’ skills and potential gaps in training.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the team via pharmacyteam@hee.nhs.uk stating – Clinical Skills Training

Welcome to Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire News

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Pharmacy Review Steering Group Voting Deadline this Friday, 17th June,11.59pm.

Expressions of interest (EOI) to open Christmas Day 25th December 2022 – Pharmacy Provision

Clinical Skills Training Survey. Deadline: Friday 17 June 2022

Please see request from Health Education England below. HEE are asking for support in sharing a survey aimed at frontline community pharmacists who deliver CPCS and other Advanced Services: