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Reminder - Book your AGM place now - deadline approaching fast.
August 2023 Medicines Optimisation Newsletter
Signposting Support: Cancer Support Team

UPCOMING DEADLINES/KEY DATES

31st August 2023 - Contractors book your AGM place for the evening of 21st September.

Guest Speaker - Dr Claire Brookings. For more details and a link to book see news item here . Alternatively, please complete the form here to book a place

1st September - from this date pharmacy owners need to use an NHS approved clinical IT system to make their clinical records and payment claims for the Hypertension case-finding service

Find out more information in the correspondence that should have been sent to your store email 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.

Reminder: Book your free place at the AGM now - GP Guest Speaker Dr Claire Brookings confirmed

Deadline for booking approaching fast

Contractors are invited to book a place at the Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire AGM, which will take place on Thursday 21st September at Washingborough Hall, near Lincoln. The venue require final booking numbers by the first week in September, therefore, booking will close on Thursday 31st August 2023. A hot buffet will be provided at 1830 and the short AGM meeting will be followed by Dr Brooking's talk. A link to the invitation with full details can be found here.

Washingborough Hall, Venue for the AGM

This year, with the launch of the national contraceptive service, we thought it would be useful to ask our GP guest speaker, Dr Claire Brookings, to give a presentation based on:

‘Supporting contraceptive choice: How do you assist in providing the right option for patients?’

Our Guest Speaker: Dr Claire Brookings

Dr Brookings qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical school in 1999. She obtained her MCRP in 2002. She first worked in Sexual Health in 2003 and never looked back.

After a year of traveling and several sets of maternity leave, she qualified as a consultant in 2013, having worked at St. Mary’s Hospital Paddington and Chelsea and Westminster.

She has worked in LISH for the last 10 years. Family planning became more prominent in her role with the integration of care 2012. She has been the Family Planning Lead Consultant for 10 years and a FRT trainer for 4 years.

Since moving to Lincolnshire she now not only has 3 boys but also a dog, 4 chickens and a cat.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming her to our AGM.

We look forward to seeing you at the AGM.

Book your free place now by completing the form here

August 2023 Medicines Optimisation Newsletter

The August 2023 edition of the Medicines Optimisation (formerly Lincolnshire Integrated Medicines and Prescribing Service) newsletter is now available here.

Contents this month listed below.

New Guidelines:
Mental Health Guidelines on Hypnotics & Anxiolytics and Antidepressants
Antibiotic Guidelines Update and Summary of Key Changes
Management of Asthma in Adults

Medication Safety Matters:
National Patient Safety Alert - Heroin
National Patient Safety Alert - GLP-1
Methotrexate 10mg Tablets Safe Prescribing

Hot Topic:
Community Pharmacy Update

Other Updates:
Medication Safety Update
GLP1 - Supply Information, FAQ and Article
System Delivery Programme Update - Training available
Prescribing Forums - NEW October dates
PACEF Updates - July Meeting
Medicine Supply Notification: Tostran

Signposting Support: Cancer Support Team

Useful information to assist pharmacy professionals in supporting those living with cancer in the county below, from the Cancer Support Team.

The Lincolnshire Living with Cancer Programme was established by Macmillan Cancer Support in June 2016. Since then, the programme has expanded to include Acute, Personalisation and Community Development Teams. And in 2022 the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board agreed to provide substantive funding for the programme enabling the team to continue their valuable work.

The primary objective of the Living with Cancer Community Development Programme has been to create a robust offer of health and wellbeing support for people living with cancer across Lincolnshire communities, and this has been achieved by engaging with partnership organisations to identify existing community assets and create new opportunities for support.

The programme seeks to address health inequalities that are created by a lack of access to support for individuals who are affected by cancer due, to Lincolnshire’s complex demographic, and workstreams have been influenced and shaped by stakeholder feedback.

Projects include the establishment of a successful cancer rehabilitation physical activity programme and a countywide psychological support offer, with additional packages of support currently under development.

Our goal for pharmacies is to create a model of support to give staff members the tools, training, and resources they need to better help cancer patients in Lincolnshire. Working together, we hope to understand the challenges pharmacy teams encounter while assisting individuals who are both newly diagnosed and living with cancer, by sharing our knowledge of local resources that are available and that patients can be signposted to.

We hope to create a lasting partnership that aids the development of a support offer which is easily accessible by patients, both in person and online.

For more information visit the website here Home :: Cancer Support Lincolnshire

The link to this and other signposting resources can be found on our website here: https://pharmacylincolnshire.org/signposting-resources/

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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