| Dear Contractor |
| Please see attached correspondence in relation to a grant funding allocation relating to DM+D clinical system amendment. |
ACTION
Contractors are advised to:
Please contact a member of the CPNI team should you have any queries.
Kind regards
Dear Contractor
SECURING PERSONAL AND BUSINESS EMAILS AND MEDIA ACCOUNTS
As part of Cyber Security month, the PSNI Cyber Crime Centre and partners have been raising awareness of the steps that can be taken to secure personal email and social media accounts from being ‘hacked’.
As the most reported cyber-dependent crime by individuals in NI and the UK as a whole, the ‘hacking’ or compromise of an email or social media account can lead to the loss of personal information, images and potentially lead to the targeting or friends, family or work colleagues by an attacker using your account.
The attached document issued by the PSNI Cyber Crime Centre offers advice on securing your accounts.
ACTION
Contractors are advised to:
Further information can be accessed via the New Cyber Protect webpage HERE.
Kind regards – Mike
SENT ON BEHALF OF
PROF MIKE MAWHINNEY
Head of Regulatory Affairs
| This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams, including details of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
BSO ALERTS
CPNI ALERTS
DOH(NI) ALERTS
| Pharmacy team(s) can keep updated via CPNI’s Contractor Calendar and Contractor Emails. |
| Or report medicine shortages, pricing and staffing issues via the CPNI’s Medicine Shortage Reporter and Situation Reporter. |
| Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s). |
Kind regards
| Dear Colleague |
| The final update of concessionary prices were granted today for October 2022: |
| Drug | Pack Size | Concessionary Price |
| Aripiprazole 1mg/ml oral solution | 150 | £104.90 |
| Bumetanide 1mg/5ml oral solution sugar free | 150 | £235.00 |
| Chlorphenamine 2mg/5ml oral solution | 150 | £4.09 |
| Chlorphenamine 2mg/5ml oral solution sugar free | 150 | £2.80 |
| Cilostazol 100mg tablets | 56 | £14.99 |
| Clobazam 10mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free | 56 | £90.28 |
| Clobazam 10mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free | 250 | £150.46 |
| Co-amilofruse 2.5mg/20mg tablets | 28 | £3.90 |
| Docusate 50mg/5ml oral solution sugar free | 300 | £20.25 |
| Doxycycline 100mg capsules | 8 | £0.85 |
| Fluoxetine 40mg capsules | 30 | £2.47 |
| Hydralazine 25mg tablets | 56 | £4.57 |
| Ivabradine 5mg tablets | 56 | £6.70 |
| Liothyronine 5microgram tablets | 28 | £100.94 |
| Methotrexate 2.5mg tablets | 28 | £1.68 |
| Mometasone 0.1% cream | 100 | £9.48 |
| Nadolol 80mg tablets | 28 | £9.00 |
| Nebivolol 10mg tablets | 28 | £28.18 |
| Rabeprazole 20mg gastro-resistant tablets | 28 | £11.84 |
| Rivastigmine 3mg capsules | 28 | £4.75 |
| Yellow soft paraffin solid | 500 | £5.65 |
| Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed. |
| Please continue to notify CPNI of any pricing issues you are experiencing via our new Medicine Shortage Reporter. |
Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.
Kind regards
| Dear Colleague |
| The fifth update of concessionary prices were granted today for October 2022: |
| Drug | Pack Size | Concessionary Price |
| Aripiprazole 15mg tablets | 28 | £36.80 |
| Aripiprazole 5mg tablets | 28 | £37.78 |
| Carbocisteine 375mg capsules | 120 | £17.04 |
| Chloramphenicol 1% eye ointment | 4 | £3.38 |
| Citalopram 20mg tablets | 28 | £1.96 |
| Clindamycin 150mg capsules | 24 | £4.42 |
| Codeine 30mg tablets | 100 | £3.96 |
| Codeine 30mg tablets | 28 | £1.11 |
| Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg tablets | 28 | £5.15 |
| Digoxin 125microgram tablets | 28 | £1.53 |
| Digoxin 62.5microgram tablets | 28 | £3.83 |
| Gabapentin 300mg capsules | 100 | £3.33 |
| Ibandronic acid 150mg tablets | 1 | £1.80 |
| Levetiracetam 100mg/ml oral solutionsugar free | 300 | £9.15 |
| Mometasone 0.1% cream | 30 | £4.32 |
| Mometasone 0.1% ointment | 30 | £4.19 |
| Mometasone 50micrograms/dose nasal spray | 140 | £3.71 |
| Pregabalin 75mg capsules | 56 | £1.83 |
| Quinine sulfate 200mg tablets | 28 | £3.97 |
| Risperidone 500microgram tablets | 20 | £3.55 |
| Temazepam 20mg tablets | 28 | £29.95 |
| Tetracycline 250mg tablets | 28 | £14.39 |
| Venlafaxine 37.5mg tablets | 56 | £3.53 |
| Venlafaxine 75mg tablets | 56 | £16.14 |
| Zolmitriptan 2.5mg tablets | 12 | £22.01 |
| Zolmitriptan 2.5mg tablets | 6 | £11.01 |
| Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed. |
| Please continue to notify CPNI of any pricing issues you are experiencing via our new Medicine Shortage Reporter. |
Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.
Kind regards
Dear Contractor
PSNI CONSULTATION: DRAFT GUIDANCE ON PHARMACY STAFFING LEVELS
On 14 October 2022, PSNI issued an eight-week public consultation on “Draft Guidance on Pharmacy Staffing Levels” which closes on 9 December 2022. This is very similar in format and content to GPhC guidance issued in 2018.
CPNI will be responding to the consultation questions and would welcome any initial comments which you may have to inform this response.
PSNI CONSULTATION: DRAFT GUIDANCE ON PHARMACY STAFFING LEVELS CALL FOR EVIDENCE: REVIEW OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT, ETHICS AND PERFORMANCE 2016
The Pharmaceutical Society NI has begun a review of the Pharmaceutical Society NI Code (Professional Standards of Conduct, Ethics and Performance for pharmacists in Northern Ireland) 2016. CPNI has secured a place on the Advisory Group associated with this review.
PSNI has issued a Call for Evidence HERE which will be used to inform the proposed revision (the Call for Evidence will close on the 30 November 2022). The draft revised Code will be the subject of a public consultation in early 2023.
Contractors may wish to respond to the Call for Evidence directly via the link provided in the document. Alternatively, you can send comments to CPNI and these will be used to inform our input and response.
Kind regards – Mike
SENT ON BEHALF OF
PROF MIKE MAWHINNEY
Head of Regulatory Affairs
