The following communication was issued 16th February 2024 by SPPG to those pharmacies involved in the Community Pharmacy Care Home Support Service (CPCHSS).
SUMMARY
A requirement for the Community Care Home Support Service is to complete two care home visits each financial year.
The second care home visit is due to be completed by the end of March 2024.
SPPG have recently introduced a process for partial recuperation of payments made to community pharmacists who are contracted to provide the service but have not completed the required visits in line with service specification.
SPPG will be in contact in early April to seek confirmation and dates of the visits completed for 23/24.
ACTION
Contractors should read the correspondence issued by SPPG 16th February 2024.
Any pharmacy yet to complete the second required care home visit should organise a date before the end of March 2024.
Please share this information with all relevant members of the team.
If you have any queries in relation to this service please contact Breege Brogan Breege.Brogan@hscni.net or Gillian Plant Gillian.Plant@hscni.net.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams.
We wrote to you on 11 December 2023 highlighting the UK-wide public consultation on Pharmacy Supervision which has been launched. The consultation will end on 29 February 2024 and can be accessed using the following link.
The consultation sets out proposals to amend the Medicines Act 1968 and The Human Medicines Regulations 2012. The proposals are to:
enable pharmacists to authorise pharmacy technicians to carry out, or supervise others carrying out, the preparation, assembly, dispensing, sale and supply of medicines;
allow pharmacy technicians to take primary responsibility for the preparation, assembly and dispensing of medicinal products in hospital aseptic facilities; and
enable pharmacists to authorise any member of the pharmacy team to hand out checked and bagged prescriptions in the absence of a pharmacist.
The first two proposals will not yet apply to Northern Ireland as Pharmacy Technicians are not currently a registered health profession here. However, the Department of Health (NI) has established project structures to progress the regulation and registration of Pharmacy Technicians in Northern Ireland and make the necessary legislative changes to enable this. Information on this project work can be found using the following link to the Pharmacy Technician Newsletter which will be updated by the Department on a quarterly basis.
The CPNI team is drafting a response to this consultation and is happy to take views from contractors (please send any comments to Ennis or myself at CPNI). Contractors can also respond directly to the address given in the consultation documents.
The consultation closes on 29 February 2024.
Kind regards
Mike
SENT ON BEHALF OF PROF MIKE MAWHINNEY Head of Regulatory Affairs
Dear Colleague
The first update of concessionary prices were granted today for February 2024:
CPVS Update 13 issued on 12th February relating to the vaccination service.
SUMMARY
SPPG have issued important information regarding community pharmacies providing Influenza and COVID-19 vaccination services.
From 12th February 2024, any community pharmacy vaccinator can contact their local HSC Trust Occupational Health Team for Hep B vaccination.
This service will provide pre-exposure schedule, titres, and 5 year booster as per JCVI guidance.
ACTION
Contractors should review the CPVS update and share the information with all staff acting in the role of Influenza and/or COVID-19 vaccinators.
Those requiring Hep B vaccination should contact the relevant Trust as detailed within the update to book an appointment.
If you have any queries about the Community Pharmacy Vaccination Service (CPVS) please contact Greg Miller (greg.miller@hscni.net) or Grainne McMahon (Grainne.McMahon4@hscni.net).
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
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