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Dear Colleague

Please find correspondence HERE from Kathryn Turner, Pharmacy Lead, HSCB.

SUMMARY

From today, community pharmacies can administer COVID-19 booster vaccinations to:

  • Individuals aged 30 years and over for whom it has been at least 3 months since their primary vaccination course has been completed
  • HSCB will issue further correspondence as further age groupings are authorised by DoH.
  • The service specification, PGD and other relevant documentation for the COVID-19 community pharmacy vaccination service are available on the COVID-19 CPVS webpage.

ACTION

  • Contractors and pharmacists involved in the provision of this service are asked to:
    • Review the correspondence.
    • Review the updated service specification, PGD and other relevant documentation for the COVID-19 community pharmacy vaccination service are available on the COVID-19 CPVS webpage.
  • If you have any queries please contact Deirdre McAree (Deirdre.McAree@hscni.net), Katie Blair (Katie.blair@hscni.net) and Joanne Crawford (Joanne.crawford2@hscni.net).
  • Please do not hesitate to contact the CPNI office should you require any further information.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams, including details of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BSO ALERTS 

CPNI ALERTS 

HSCB ALERTS 

Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).
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 or Situation Reporter.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF 
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
Please find correspondence HERE from Kathryn Turner, Pharmacy Lead, HSCB.

SUMMARY

From today, community pharmacies can administer COVID-19 booster vaccinations to:

  • Individualsaged 40 years and overfor whom it has been at least3 months since their primary vaccination course has been completed
  • All patients inPriority Groups 2-9 (including adult carers) for whom it has been at least 3 months since their primary vaccination course has been completed.  Further detail on Priority Groups can be  found at Greenbook or in Appendix with this letter.
  • HSCB will issue further correspondence as further age groupings are authorised by DoH.
  • The service specification, PGD and other relevant documentation for the COVID-19 community pharmacy vaccination service are available on the COVID-19 CPVS webpage.

ACTION

  • Contractors and pharmacists involved in the provision of this service are asked to:Review the correspondence.
  • Review the updated service specification, PGD and other relevant documentation for the COVID-19 community pharmacy vaccination service are available on the COVID-19 CPVS webpage.
  • If you have any queries please contact Deirdre McAree (Deirdre.McAree@hscni.net), Katie Blair (Katie.blair@hscni.net) and Joanne Crawford (Joanne.crawford2@hscni.net).
  • Please do not hesitate to contact the CPNI office should you require any further information.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
Dear Colleague
I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all pharmacy teams who participated in the Community Pharmacy ‘Big Jab Weekend‘. Over 11,000 COVID-19 vaccinations were administered by community pharmacy across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is a phenomenal achievement in only three days! Community pharmacy has once again demonstrated its ability to deliver the vaccination programme for Northern Ireland. Massive congratulations to all involved! 

Community pharmacy’s hard-work and unyielding commitment to their local communities has been a long running characteristic of the network, and this has not gone unnoticed.  On Saturday, 5 December 2021, the community pharmacy workforce received the ‘Roll of Honour’ award, at the prestigious Aisling Awards, in recognition of their continued dedication to patient care throughout the past twelve months.  

This is a wonderful endorsement of the profession and again, I would like to thank community pharmacists and their teams across the network for all their hard work and commitment. 

Further information relating to the ‘Roll of Honour’ award is available HERE.

Thank you once again to you and your teams and please do not hesitate to contact CPNI Office on 028 9069 0444 for further advice or support.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams, including details of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BSO ALERTS 

CPNI ALERTS 

HSCB ALERTS 

Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).
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 or Situation Reporter.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF 
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
Please see attached correspondence from Kathryn Turner, Pharmacy Lead, HSCB. 

In summary, additional funding is available for community pharmacies to carry out dedicated COVID-19 vaccination clinics for the Community Pharmacy ‘Big Jab Weekend’ on 4-5 December 2021. The following options are available:
Provide clinic(s) in current Pharmacy premises outside of normal commercial opening hours.
Provide clinic(s) at an off-site location (non-pharmacy) premises at any time.

Funding of £200 per eligible vaccination clinic is available.

If you wish to claim this funding, please complete the attached claim form HERE and return to your local Integrated Care office.

Thank you once again to you and your teams and please do not hesitate to contact CPNI Office on 028 9069 0444 for further advice or support.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive