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

Contractors are asked to note that the primary aim of the service is to vaccinate eligible patients where possible.

SUMMARY

  • Community pharmacy can offer a COVID-19 Booster vaccination to all those 50 years of age and over provided there has been be a minimum of 6 months after completing their primary course of COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Frontline Health and Social Care Workers can be vaccinated through this programme including Trust and non-Trust staff. The service is additionally available to those who:
  • Work in or are working for service providers contracted to the HSC in a frontline role as a Health and Social Care Worker (HSCW), if 18 years or over (e.g., Barnardos staff providing HSC services).
  • Work as Funeral Directors, who will present a letter from their employer authorising a vaccination.
  • Please note a booster dose can only be offered six months after a patient has completed their primary COVID-19 vaccination course.
  • Health and Social Care Workers eligible are:
  • Domiciliary care workers and Nursing home and residential home staff.
  • Other frontline HSCW who are patient facing.
  • The seasonal influenza vaccine can be co-administered with COVID-19 vaccinations.

ACTION

  • Contractors are asked to review the correspondence.
  • The community pharmacist should exercise professional judgement if the individual presents evidence such as a work I.D. or is in work uniform.
  • 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
Following on from the update letter regarding Staff Recognition Payment on 14 October 2021, the training zoom sessions mentioned in the letter will be held on Wednesday 3 November 2021, 7-8pm via Zoom HERE.

We would be grateful if this could be shared with the appropriate staff in your organisation so the person who will be completing the template attends the zoom. Further information will be provided with the release of the documentation this afternoon.

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
The final update concessionary prices was granted for October 2021:
DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Amisulpride 50mg tablets60£2.94
Celecoxib 100mg capsules60£1.68
Celecoxib 100mg capsules30£1.72
Chlorpromazine 25mg tablets28£10.74
Cyclizine 50mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules5£7.09
Enalapril 5mg tablets28£5.95
Enalapril 10mg tablets28£5.05
Lansoprazole 30mg orodispersible tablets28£5.17
Nitrofurantoin 50mg capsules30£10.49
Nortriptyline 10mg tablets100£1.99
Nortriptyline 25mg tablets100£2.07
Prednisolone 5mg soluble tablets30£10.35
Ropinirole 1mg tablets84£56.71
Topiramate 25mg tablets60£2.37
Topiramate 50mg tablets60£3.03
Topiramate 100mg tablets60£12.39
Trazodone 100mg capsules56£3.71
Trimethoprim 100mg tablets28£1.81

Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed.

Concessionary prices may be granted up until the end of the month so CPNI will notify you of any further concessionary prices as and when they are agreed.

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

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

SUMMARY

  • Community Pharmacies contracted to provide COVID-19 Moderna vaccine booster doses are encouraged to proceed to vaccinate the patients eligible for this service.
  • Eligible patients:
    • Must present no earlier than six months after completion of the primary vaccine course (for most people this will be two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine) and
    • Must be frontline health and social care workers who operate in a ‘patient facing’ role and where relevant are in receipt of a letter from a qualifying body or
    • All patients who are 50 years of age and older.
  • The qualifying bodies for this service defined by the Department of Health are listed within the correspondence attached HERE.

ACTION

  • Contractors are asked to review the correspondence.
  • Please do not hesitate to contact the CPNI office should you require any further information.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist

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 or 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
Ask Your Pharmacist Week runs from 1-8 November 2021 and the theme is ‘Your local pharmacy can help’. The awareness week, an initiative by the National Pharmacy Association, is an opportunity to highlight the full range of services available through community pharmacy this autumn and winter, including Covid-19 vaccination, booster vaccines and the winter flu vaccination programme. This year there will also be a focus on the Pharmacy First service for everyday health conditions which launches on 1 November 2021.

CPNI will be supporting the Ask Your Pharmacist Week campaign with a range of communications including political engagement, social media activity and press features.

To help promote the awareness week, contractors are invited to share CPNI posts and add the attached card to their social media channels with the hashtag #AskYourPharmacist.

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