Please find for your attention, correspondence from Kathryn Turner, Pharmacy Lead, HSCB.
Contractors are advised to read this carefully and take the appropriate steps to start to set up the link to the Vaccine Management System (VMS) which is expected to be up and running by Wednesday 31 March 2021.
VMS is the central database used by all COVID-19 vaccination providers and it is important it contains accurate, up to date information. As soon as VMS can be accessed by pharmacies it is important to log any patients who have either booked an appointment or already been vaccinated in your pharmacy.
If you plan to provide vaccinations before the VMS can be accessed, please use alternative methods of recording in the interim, a paper vaccination record is available HERE from the BSO website. All vaccination activity should be added retrospectively as soon as VMS is accessible.
Kind regards – Vanessa
SENT ON BEHALF OF Dr. Vanessa Chambers Head of Policy and Development
Contractor Meeting for Pharmacy Teams using the SimplyBook.Me (SBM) Vaccine Booking System (VBS) – Tuesday 30 March @ 7.30pm, by Zoom
Dear Colleague
CPNI will hold a Contractor meeting tomorrow evening by Zoom to provide you and your teams with important pharmacy user information about your SimplyBook.Me online Vaccine Booking System. It is important that you join this Zoom Contractor meeting at which information on how to use the SBM VBS will be provided.
CPNI has also been notified that pharmacies, using the SBM VBS, can expect to receive the login details for their booking platform from SBM by Close of Play today. The platform, that you will be able to access, contains template pharmacy and booking appointment information – this information will need to be amended by you, to reflect your specific pharmacy details, prior to making the booking platform available online in any way. The purpose of the Contractor meeting is to provide you with details and guidance to enable you to do this.
I appreciate that we have only been able to provide one days’ notice for this important Contractor meeting but, as has been the case for the entire Community Pharmacy COVID vaccination service programme, the development associated with it has had to be fast-tracked and accelerated in recent days and weeks.
I wish to re-emphasise that the booking platform should not be hosted publicly before all the required changes to your template booking platform have been made, with instructions, guidance and a tutorial on how to make the requisite changes being provided at the Contractor meeting tomorrow evening, Tuesday 30 March at 7.30pm.
Resources will also be made available to you and your pharmacy teams over the coming days to assist you in using the SBM VMS.
ZOOM login details for the Contractor meeting are as follows:
Meeting ID: 899 6371 7585
Passcode: 936412.
Today’s launch of the Community Pharmacy COVID Vaccination service is highly significant for the community pharmacy sector and I want to wish all pharmacy team members who will be providing this important service over the coming weeks every success in the roll-out of the service.
I look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow evening.
Please do not hesitate to contact CPNI offices should you require any additional information at this stage.
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.
Dear Colleague
In today’s update:
Weekly drug alerts, shortages information and ongoing serious shortage protocols.
COVID-CPVS updates.
2nd Concessionary Prices for March 2021.
Update on Cyber Security relating to Microsoft Vulnerabilities.
DoH Vaccination Protocol for AZ COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccines hesitancy survey for HSCWs.
PSNI updates on CPD requirements and registration assessment.
Due to current vaccine supply issues, each contractor can only be allocated an initial supply of one box of ten vials – this will provide 80 first doses.
Contractors will be notified when further supplies become available and further orders can be made.
Pharmacists must check that a person is eligible to receive a COVID vaccination. i.e.
aged 18 years and over and
registered with a GP practice in Northern Ireland and
in an eligible cohort as defined by DoH COVID-19 vaccination programme (see Appendix 1).
Full documentation regarding the service can be found HERE.
CPNI will provide further information in relation to the COVID-CPVS on Monday 29 March 2021. Please do not hesitate to contact CPNI offices should you require any additional information at this stage.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OFGERARD GREENE Chief Executive
Dear Colleague
The following concessionary prices have been granted for March 2021:
This is the 2nd update of concessionary prices for March 2021.
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.
SENT ON BEHALF OFDR. GARETH C. GILVARY Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
I write to remind Contractors, who will be providing COVID-19 Community Pharmacy Vaccination Service, that all individuals providing the service must have completed the following with the training requirements.
All individuals providing the service are competent to do so.
All vaccinators complete the COVID-19 vaccinator competency assessment tool. Any training needs identified by the COVID-19 vaccinator competency assessment tool should be addressed. Copies of the assessments should be held in the pharmacy. Additional training and information is available on the PHA website.
All vaccinators complete the e-Learning for Health modules on:Core Knowledge for COVID-19 vaccinators.
COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca
All vaccinators have completed Basic Life Support (BLS) and anaphylaxis training within the last year. This can be undertaken either on-line of face to face.
Staff involved in the provision of this service are advised that they should consider being vaccinated against Hepatitis B and be advised of the risks should they decide not to be vaccinated.
Furthermore, CPNI encourages contractors to contact the following agencies for additional training.
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