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New Branding

You can see from the format of this newsletter that we are moving to the standardised branding adopted by Community Pharmacy England. 

The branding is designed to help Community Pharmacy England be more authoritative and as we work together to support community pharmacy we speak with one voice but also one vision and image. 

We will gradually be updating our documents and email signatures to align to this new format over the next few months.
 

Annual General Meeting of Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire - Report

Last Thursday 21st September saw our Annual General Meeting take place at Washingborough Hall near Lincoln.  

The event was well attended, with those who came along first enjoying a buffet meal and opportunity for networking with colleagues, followed by the formal part of the AGM, where the Chair gave an overview of the work completed last financial year ending 31st March 2023 and the focus for the year ahead, and the Treasurer presenting the annual accounts.

The annual accounts were approved and a copy can be found here.
A copy of the Committee's Annual Report can be found here.

A very informative and useful presentation followed, delivered by Dr Claire Brookings. The talk covered contraceptive choices, supporting the roll out of the current Tier 1 – Ongoing monitoring and supply of repeat oral contraception (OC) prescriptions national service and the Tier 2 – Initiation of OC via a Patient Group Direction (PGD) currently at the pilot stage.

We thank Claire for her time and assistance.


The slides are available to download here: AGM-2023-Contraceptive-Choices-Talk.pptx (live.com)

We hope that those who attended will join us next year and that those who were not able to come along will be able to do so next time.

Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) Update

Remember DMS is an essential service so all community pharmacy contractors must complete referrals received. 

The team at the LPC is continuing to work hard with United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust to enable the roll out of DMS from ULHT sites via the EPMA system. We are aiming to do this on a staged basis to ensure everything works smoothly prior to full rollout.

However, cross border referrals are still being made so you need to look out for them in your nhs.net store in boxes and on PharmOutcomes.

Referrals will also continue to arrive from LPFT and LCHS

Funding to Support Expansion of Pharmacy Technician Workforce 2023/24 MIDLANDS

NHS England Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E) directorate are offering funding to support the training of pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians (PTPTs) on a multi-sector or single sector community pharmacy integrated training programme. We will be holding a series of 60-minute webinars during the application window to provide further details regarding this funding opportunity.
 
The application window is open from Thursday 20 September until 11.59p.m Sunday 15 October 2023. Submit your application by completing the expression of interest form, click here.
Please register to attend any of the webinars using the link below.
Register here to attend on
 
Thursday 28 September         12.00pm to 1.00pm – Register
Thursday 28 September         6.00pm to 7.00pm – Register
Monday 2 October                  11.00am to 12.00pm - Register
Wednesday 4 October            7.00pm to 8.00pm – Register
Monday 9 October                  1.00pm to 2.00pm –  Register
Thursday 12 October             6.00pm to 7.00pm – Register
 
How much funding is available?

• £46,099 per PTPT over the 2-year training period.
• Funding is intended to contribute to the cost of developing and running a two-year work-based training programme.
• It is recommended education costs are covered through apprenticeship levy.

• Identify you can provide educational supervision from a GPhC registered pharmacy professional throughout the full 24-month training programme.
• Complete a short on-line expression of interest with an overview of your proposed training programme. This will be used to shortlist allocation of funding.
• For organisations wishing to deliver a multi-sector programme, have formed a partnership that includes a minimum of two healthcare settings, at least one of which must be responsible for delivery of day-to-day patient facing pharmacy services.

• Support from a dedicated pharmacy programme facilitator to offer guidance and expertise throughout the 2-year training period.
• Employer network meetings to share experience, practice and resources.
• A range of resources including examples of job adverts and learning plans shared by existing training placements.

 
If you have any questions, please email england.wtepharmacy.mids@nhs.net with PTPT Expansion Programme in the subject field.

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Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire is the name for Lincolnshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee. We are 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