As you may be aware, Northern Ireland’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer recently issued correspondence to Pharmacy Students asking them to consider using any spare capacity they may have, after their academic commitments, to work in our hospital or community pharmacy services.
Students who have capacity and an interest in providing support to the community pharmacy network have been asked to contact CPNI.
ACTION: In order to match any Students who come forward to suitable pharmacies, we would ask that you register your pharmacy’s interest in being connected by completing this short form.
Kind regards
Ennis Shields
Ennis Shields Governance & Support Pharmacist
This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams, including details of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SENT ON BEHALF OF DR. GARETH C. GILVARY Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
Please find correspondence HERE for the attention of all Community Pharmacies offering Living Well service, from HSCB Pharmacy & Medicines Management.
SUMMARY
The first campaign of 2021/2022, Know Your Units, finished on 31 July 2021.
Pharmacies offering Living Well are required to complete an online evaluation survey for this campaign.
It is vital that all pharmacies contracted to provide “Living Well” submit their evaluation survey as it allows HSCB to collate data to demonstrate the value and impact of the service to other sectors. Additionally, it supports future commissioning and service development.
The HSCB monitors compliance with the service requirements, in particular evaluation submission. Should your pharmacy fail to submit an evaluation survey response, the HSCB reserves the right to recover all, or part of, this funding via an adjustment to the pharmacy’s BSO payment account.
Pharmacies offering Living Well service are required to complete an evaluation survey, for the ‘Know Your Units‘ campaign available HERE by 20 September 2021.
If you have already completed this, you do not need to do anything further.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF DR. GARETH C. GILVARY Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
The Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) has, today, launched a consultation in respect of a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) model which can be found HERE.
The aim of the model is to better enable decision making within the current regulatory frameworks around the provision of pharmaceutical services relative to need in localities.
It is widely recognised that community pharmacies play an important role, not only in the supply and dispensing of medicines, but increasingly in providing a first point of contact with the health service. Over the past 18 months and more, the community pharmacy sector has been the most visible and accessible part of primary care and the face-to-face nature of community pharmacy allows patients to develop a professional relationship with their patients ensuring continuity of care.
This is a public consultation which closes on Tuesday 30 November 2021 and CPNI Board will meet on Thursday 9 September 2021 to discuss this further.
We will be advising contractors and members of the public on this issue and will be in contact with more information in due course.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
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