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In this week's email:

PQS Aspiration payment deadline 29th September
In case you missed it: GPhC Joint statement on meeting regulatory standards during periods of global or national shortage of medicines
CPPE Workshops to support your practice - limited places left!

UPCOMING DEADLINES/KEY DATES

28th September 2023 - Community pharmacy technician: advancing your role funded programme launches
To register and find out more about the programme visit the CPPE website.

29th September 2023 - PQS Aspiration payment claim deadline
Pharmacy Contractors will have the option to claim via MYS an aspiration payment if participating in the PQS 2023/24. The payment must be claimed by 11.59pm on 29th September.

From 1st September 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.

PQS Aspiration Payment claim deadline 29th September

Pharmacy Contractors will have the option to claim via MYS an aspiration payment if participating in the PQS 2023/24. The payment must be claimed by 11.59pm on 29th September.

NHS Guidance on the 2023/24 scheme can be found here.

A useful summary including a timeline and training requirements can be accessed here

In case you missed it: GPhC Joint statement on meeting regulatory standards during periods of global or national shortage of medicines

In July GPhC released a statement on the above:

"We are concerned to hear that people with Type 2 diabetes are experiencing problems accessing GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs). We know that these are being widely prescribed for weight loss purposes and in some cases prescribed off-label.

We recognise the adverse impact that shortages and supply chain issues can have on patients, the public and wider health and care teams."

For the full statement and more information see GPhC website here.

CPPE workshops to support your practice

Remember, CPPE have some useful workshops coming up over the next few months which may really help you and other pharmacy professionals in your team to support your patients

Supporting People Living With Frailty:
26th Sep 7-9pm (book here)

This workshop will help you to describe what frailty means, recognise people living with frailty and offer them appropriate support, taking a person-centred approach to raising frailty issues and exploring a person’s own goals and priorities for their health and wellbeing.

This is a priority area for many ICBs, including Lincolnshire, and so may be invaluable for pharmacy professionals.

Medicines reconciliation in transfer of care - optimise
11th Oct (book here) or 30th Nov (book here); both 7-8:45pm

This workshop will help pharmacy professionals to complete medicines reconciliation in accordance with national guidance, identify possible barriers and solutions to medicines reconciliation and to explain why this is important during transfer of care.

This is an important aspect of many pharmacy services, including the Discharge Medicines Service (which is an essential service) as well as for day-to-day community pharmacy practice to ensure we can support patients moving between care settings, including discharge from hospital, moving from home to care settings or returning after periods of respite care. Pharmacy technicians in particular have found this workshop invaluable.

The workshops above are supported by our very own Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire chair, and places are limited, so we advise you to book early!

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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