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Welcome to our weekly newsletter.

In this week's email:

Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire authored letter shared directly to MPs and Ministers by Community Pharmacy England
In case you missed it: NHSBSA emails are changing
2023/24 Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Programme Updates From NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Directorate (previously Health Education England) - including webinar booking links

UPCOMING DEADLINES/KEY DATES

Monday 3 July 2023 to midnight on Sunday 30 July 2023: CPAF Questionnaire Completion period

The CPAF questionnaire must be completed through the NHSBSA MYS portal between Monday 3 July 2023 and midnight on Sunday 30 July 2023. We strongly advise contractors complete this short questionnaire as soon as possible on or after 3rd July. Community Pharmacy England has published a short Briefing on the screening process. Read the briefing

17th July 2023 - Independent Pharmacy Awards deadline for entries

For more information and to enter please see the IPA website here.

8th August 2023 - deadline to respond to consultation on GPhC fees 7.5% increase proposal

For more information to respond to the consultation, please see the GPhC website here.

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.

Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire authored letter shared directly to MPs and Ministers by Community Pharmacy England

Last week we updated you on our parliamentary lobbying work, to ensure that the voice of pharmacy is heard both locally and nationally at Westminster.

You may remember from last week's newsletter that, following a letter received from Health Minister Neil O'Brien MP, in response to our correspondence to Sir John Hayes, we sent a response to Sir John Hayes, noting that some of the information provided by Mr O'Brien needed clarification. The response can be read here and the original letter from Neil O'Brien can be found here.

Community Pharmacy England were impressed by the contents of our letter and were keen to use them as part of the negotiating process with government. Subsequent to sending a copy of this letter to Community Pharmacy England it was used as a briefing element for their negotiating team. The letter was passed to Janet Morrison and Jay Patel, was included in the Prime Minister’s Recovery Plan meeting on Friday, and was then passed with background by pharmacy representatives to a wide range of individuals representing central government. Jay Patel was briefing the Secretary of State for Health, NHS Chief Executive, NHS Chair, Pharmacy Ministers and Director for Primary Care last week and he personally handed them hard copies of our Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire branded letter. The full list of those who received the letter from him and their roles is shown below:

Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care
Amanda Pritchard – NHS Chief Executive
Richard Meddings - NHS Chair
Amanda Doyle (OBE) (Dr) - National Director for Primary Care and Community Services
Neil O'Brien - Pharmacy Minister, Member of Parliament for Harborough and a member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
Vin Diwakar - Medical Director for Transformation NHS England. transformation programmes including those which use improvement in science, technology, digital, and data
Will Quince MP- Colchester

We hope that our insight can assist in gaining an appropriate funding level and mechanism for community pharmacy which is certainly overdue. We are very happy to support the work of Community Pharmacy England and will continue to do so as your local community pharmacy representatives.

In case you missed it: NHSBSA emails are changing

Email addresses for the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) are changing. For pharmacy teams this means that some of the email addresses previously used to contact NHS Prescription Services will no longer work.

There will be a small transition period where emails sent to the old address will be automatically forwarded. This ends on Tuesday 18 July.

After this date, emails sent to the old email address will not be received by the NHSBSA, so pharmacy teams are advised to use the new email address from this point on.

For more information click the link to the Community Pharrnacy England Website below.

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2023/24 Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Programme Updates From NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Directorate (previously Health Education England) - including webinar booking links

The Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Programme Assessment Strategy and associated documents have been refreshed for 2023/24. The updated Strategy, Assessment Activities and Tools Guide and the Initial Education and Training Standards of Pharmacists (IETP) Assessment Learning Outcome Visual Mapping excel document, will be available on the website shortly.

E-portfolio Orientation

In collaboration with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, NHS England will be hosting National Orientation Webinars for the Foundation Trainee Pharmacist E-portfolio.

Foundation Trainee Pharmacist event 7-8pm on Monday 17th July 2023
- Link for trainees to register: https://events.rpharms.com/200264566

Designated Supervisor event 7-8pm on Monday 14th August 2023
- Link for supervisors to register: https://events.rpharms.com/200264573

Both webinars will be recorded and a link available from the E-portfolio website page.

The NHS England Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Programme Team will be facilitating a series of drop-in sessions, to assist people to resolve issues with access, or provide further orientation and trouble shooting. These will run from July through to September, please see website for further information.

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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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