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18th January 2024

Welcome to Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire News
In this week's newsletter:
 
  • Pharmacy First ENT training in Lincolnshire Sunday 25th February - Book Now
  • Reminder: Pharmacy First Drop-In Clinics Online - Mondays 2-3pm
  • Reminder: Please complete the Community Pharmacy England Survey by 21st January if you can
  • Pharmacy First: Useful Conditions Summary and Local GP Briefing

UPCOMING DEADLINES/KEY DATES


Community Pharmacy England Key Service Webinars
Although these are now fully booked make a note in your diary as recordings will be available after the date on the CPE website at the link shown below the dates.
10th January 2024 - Pharmacy Contraception Service: getting going with the service 
15th January 2024 - Pharmacy First: Getting ready for launch 
For more details and recordings of previous webinars including Hypertension Case-Finding Service see CPE webpage here 

30th January 2024 - Deadline to sign up for Pharmacy First Service
Remember in order to continue to offer CPCS you need to register for Pharmacy First. If contractors don't opt in to provide Pharmacy First by the deadline they will be de-listed from the list of pharmacies providing CPCS. 
In order to qualify for the £2,000 initial payment contractors need to have registered for the service by 23:59 on 30th January 2024. Read more on Pharmacy First on CPE website here 

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


IMPORTANT GENERAL REMINDERS
From 1st December 2022 - Changes to nhs.net email access requirements.  Inactivity period prior to permanent, irrecoverable account deletion reduced from 180 days to 60 days.
For more on this and other important reminders see item on our web page here.

Make sure you are signed up for Community Pharmacy England Newsletters. 
Sign up to receive these at the link here: https://cpe.org.uk/our-work/updates-events/email-sign-up/
 
 

Pharmacy First ENT Training in Lincolnshire

Sunday 25th February 2024, Lincolnshire 

The Integrated Care System and Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire have accessed some non-recurrent funding to put on a single day of ENT Minor Illness training delivered by CPPE to support Pharmacy First for Lincolnshire contractors. 

There will be a morning and afternoon session on Sunday 25th February and the training will be held at Lincolnshire Showground:

Lincolnshire Showground
Grange-de-Lings
Lincoln 
LN2 2NA

View the CPPE promotional leaflet here.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING ALONG AN OTOSCOPE TO THE TRAINING. MAKE SURE IT HAS BATTERIES IN IT AND YOU HAVE SOME DISPOSABLE TIPS.

Booking a place

To book a place you will need a code from us. To get this you need to send an email entitled 'Pharmacy First Training - Code Request' to info@pharmacylincolnshire.org containing the following information:

  • Your name
  • Whether you are an employed pharmacist or locum
  • Where you work.
If you are a locum please let us know for what companies and approximately how often you have worked in Lincolnshire in the last 3-6 months. If you have not worked in Lincolnshire but live on the borders and work in Nottinghamshire for example just tell us and we will send you a code if places are available after the end of this week, as we will be opening up training to our colleague LPCs at that point.

Once you have your code you can click here to book your place.

If you expressed an interest following last weeks newsletter you will have been emailed a code to book.

 

Reminder: Pharmacy First Drop-In Clinics Online - Mondays for the next few weeks 2-3pm

We have joined up with Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire and Community Pharmacy Derbyshire to deliver Pharmacy First drop-in clinics online. These will take place on Mondays from 2-3pm starting on Monday 15th January. Sessions will run every Monday for the next few weeks at the same time.

Designed for community pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy teams to jump on and ask questions about Pharmacy First, the session will give you the opportunity to discuss any queries you may have and access targeted support to ensure your implementation of Pharmacy First is as successful as it possibly can be.

Here's the link to drop into the clinic anytime you wish between 2 and 3pm with the next being on Monday 22nd January and every Monday afternoon for the next few weeks. It's a rolling link so will work each week.

Click Here to access the drop-in clinic.

We look forward to seeing you!
 

Reminder: Community Pharmacy England Contractor Survey - please complete by 11.59pm Sunday 21st January 2024

Before their next Committee meeting at the end of this month Community Pharmacy England are asking pharmacy owners about the new Pharmacy First Service and the outlook for their business as we enter 2024. The Committee Opinion Poll also includes our financial and operational pressures tracker. We estimate that the poll should take less than ten  minutes to complete.
 
We have been asked to help distribute the Committee Opinion Poll to pharmacy owners is our area, using the link below. Please remember to properly note your ODS or POC code when completing the survey, as this will enable CPE to retrieve background information such as which LPC area contractors are located in which will help us to better understand local issues. 
 
The ten-minute survey, open until 11.59pm on Sunday 21st January 2024, can be completed here:
January 2024 Committee Opinion Poll

Pharmacy First: Useful Conditions Summary and Local GP Briefing

We have been working with system colleagues and the Local Medical Committee and have produced a briefing for local GPs which can be accessed here.

This includes the following pages, as well as a summary sheet giving an overview of the service, linking to Community Pharmacy England resources and an overview of the mitigations in place around anti-microbial resistance..



 

We continue to work together with colleagues across the health system in the county to support Pharmacy First roll-out.

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 






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