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Welcome to Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire News

Welcome to our weekly newsletter.  

In this week's email:

  • GPhC Temporary register to remain open until 2024
  • Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) now published
  • Register now: Connected Pharmacy Online Patient Safety Workshop on DOAC Prescribing and Safety. Tuesday October 4th: 12.30pm to 1.30pm.

UPCOMING DEADLINES

 
  • 30th September 2022 - Update NHS website and DoS profile
Terms of Service require a check of details at least once each quarter of the financial year. For the current financial quarter, the deadline for completing this is 30th September 2022. A link to more information on PSNC website is here: Find out more
 
  • 30th September 2022 - Pharmacy support staff GPhC Grandparenting records request deadline
    GPhC no longer require the original grandparenting forms to be produced as part of an inspection as evidence that the requirements have been met for pharmacy staff. Support staff who want to request a copy of their grandparenting records from us should complete a request form and send this to request.grandparenting@pharmacyregulation.org by 4.00 pm on 30 September 2022. After this date records will be deleted.
 
  • 1st October 2022 - GPhC reinstating full revalidation requirements for registrants with new standards for the reflective account

As GPhC announced on 23 March 2022, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are due to renew their registration on or after 1 October 2022 will need to submit all six revalidation records and when writing their reflective account, pharmacy professionals are expected to reflect on one or more of the three standards, selected by the Council from the Standards for pharmacy professionals. More information can be found here: New standards for the reflective account from October 2022 | General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacyregulation.org)

 
  • 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. 

GPhC Temporary register to remain open until 2024

 

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has asked the General Pharmaceutical Council and the other relevant health professional regulators to keep their temporary registers for a further two years.

The UK Government has made this decision, which is referenced in its new ‘plan for patients’in England to enable health professionals on the temporary registers to continue to support the health and social care system.

The GPhC temporary register was set up in 2020 after the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked us to use our emergency powers in order to rapidly register pharmacy professionals to assist in the national response to the COVID-19 emergency.

The UK Government had previously announced that the temporary registers established by the health professional regulators were expected to close on 30 September 2022.

Read more on the GPhC website here.

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) for Lincolnshire now published


The Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board approved the final Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment PNA and the associated documents on 27th September 2022.

Thank you all for your hard work in responding to the surveys earlier in the year
 
The documents have been published online and available to view using this link https://www.research-lincs.org.uk/JSNA-PNA.aspx  
 

Connected Pharmacy Online Patient Safety Workshop on DOAC Prescribing and Safety  Tuesday October 4th: 12.30pm to 1.30pm

The next Connected Pharmacy Patient Safety Workshop on DOAC Prescribing and Safety will be held  on-line on Tuesday October 4th from 12.30pm to 1.30pm.  So far, over one hundred pharmacists and technicians registered, but there is capacity for many more. 

DID YOU KNOW?
  • 155,000 people in England may be on the incorrect dose of DOAC for non-valvular AF.
  • For every 25 people on a dose above the manufacturer recommended dose for a year, it is estimated that 1 will suffer a major bleed who would not have if the dose had been correct. 
  • Underdosing may leave patients exposed to the original risk of stroke, meaning 1 in 25 patients with NVAF will go on to have a stroke if not adequately anticoagulated for 18 months. 

You are invited to a lunch time session on Patient Safety, focusing on DOAC Prescribing and Safety. This free online event takes place on Tuesday 4th October 2022, 12.30-1.30pm via Zoom.
 
The session will be introduced by Richard Seal, Midlands Regional Chief Pharmacist and we are delighted that Tony Jamieson, National Patient Safety Lead, MedSIP, will be joining us to speak on this important topic.  
 
Furthermore, it will provide you with a chance to network with colleagues within your locality and consider what YOU can do as a system and as an individual pharmacist or technician to improve patient safety with DOACs. 

This event is open to pharmacists and their teams from all system areas across the Midlands.
To join this event you need to register by clicking the link below, or opening the attached flyer for more information. On registration, you will receive your zoom joining details.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patient-safety-focusing-on-doac-prescribing-and-safety-tickets-411535843787
 

 

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Lincolnshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee is the voice of NHS pharmacies in Lincolnshire.  For further information about the work we do, contact chief.officer@pharmacylincolnshire.org or visit www.pharmacylincolnshire.org 
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