Welcome to Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire News

Reminder: NHSE Funded CPPE Pharmacy First - Ear, Nose and Throat clinical assessment skills workshops now open for booking - Book Now as places very limited

Please find a flyer attached here with live links to the ENT booking page on the CPPE website, the workshops are now  open for booking 

There are only 120 places at the Leicester event on February 4th but there are 120 places per region across England so you may find a venue closer to you depending on where you live, please check the booking page for all events.

Book now as the places are limited and will be filled quickly!

Mandatory Workforce Survey closes this Sunday 17th December

The 2023 Community Pharmacy Workforce Survey, conducted by North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS) on behalf of NHS England, opened on 23rd October 2023. Completion of the survey is a mandatory requirement for all pharmacy owners.

Access the 2023 workforce survey

In some cases, e.g. Company Chemists’ Association member companies and other multiple pharmacy groups, head offices will complete the survey centrally. If you are not sure whether the survey will be completed centrally, please ask your head office for guidance.

The survey is open for eight weeks and will close on Sunday 17th December 2023.

More information can be found on Community Pharmacy England's website here.

LPC office closed over the festive period

The LPC office is closed over the festive period from midday 21st December 2023 to 8.30am on Tuesday 2nd January 2024. Emails will not be responded to within this time.

If your enquiry is urgent please send it to info@pharmacylincolnshire.org with URGENT in the title. This email box will only be checked intermittently within this period, so there still may be a delay in response.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The Team at Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire
 

University of Lincoln Independent Prescriber Course

Did you know that the University of Lincoln are now accredited by the GPhC to provide an Independent Prescribing Course for Pharmacists. The brand new course will be starting in February 2024 and places are available. Please see the leaflet here for more information or contact pharmacy@lincoln.ac.uk’
 

Links to Community Pharmacy England key pages

In light of recent announcements that have come out in different correspondence from CPE, we have included links to four main webpages for your reference below:

CPE Pharmacy First Service webpage.
CPE Hypertension webpage
CPE Pharmacy Contraception Service webpage
Main CPE Advanced Services webpage

CPE have also have published a new web page highlighting important dates relating to national services and terms of service requirements:
 
https://cpe.org.uk/national-pharmacy-services/cpcf-services-and-terms-of-service-important-dates/
 
This is a live page and CPE will continue to update it as and when announcements are made.

Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire are continuing to update and refresh our website. Let us know if there are any specific things you'd like to see, You can email us at info@pharmacylincolnshire.org

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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