Please see below a request from Nicola Kenny at the BBC who is looking to speak to pharmacists living or working in Belfast about their experience of the pandemic and the effect that music had on them during this time.
Belfast City Council is hosting a concert in August to confer the Freedom of the City on all Belfast key workers for their contribution to the pandemic response. The concert will be filmed and broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland later in the autumn.
When the pandemic hit, key workers used their ingenuity and resilience to find ways to continue working and offer support to people through very difficult circumstances. In these challenging times we sometimes seek music, or it connects with us unknowingly or without reason. It may be a song heard on the radio on the way home in the car or an album you kept revisiting, just music that resonated with you during this time. Did a song help you overcome a challenge or connect you to loved ones?
BBC Northern Ireland are collating all the replies from key workers, and a small number of songs will be performed live with the Ulster Orchestra at the concert in August.
If you would like to be share your experience or would like more information, please email or text Nicola Kenny (nicola.kenny@bbc.co.uk 07915 072 048) with your name and contact details by Friday 29th of July 2022.
Kind Regards
JUDE AUSTIN | Communications Manager
Dear Colleague
The third update of concessionary prices were granted today for July 2022:
Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed.
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 Contractor
Further to Contractor Update on the 7 July 2022, CPNI is continuing to liaise with the Department of Health, SPPG, Pharmacy Wholesalers and PMR providers in relation to the current acute supply shortages affecting NI licensed medicines as well as the consequential PIP-code and DM&D code issues that have also arisen
It is important that any product supply shortages and price increases, especially where the medicine cost price exceeds the tariff price are notified to CPNI via the CPNI Medicine Shortage Reporter.
CPNI has requested urgent mitigations and will continue to work with Departmental and SPPG colleagues to address these ongoing supply issues.
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
As you will be aware, there has been extensive national pharmacy media coverage of significant difficulties experienced by Foundation Training Year (FTY) pharmacists in a number of centres in England in respect of the Common Registration Examination (CRA).
CPNI has also been made aware of difficulties and concerns in respect of the conduct of the CRA held in Northern Ireland on 29 June 2022. CPNI has raised the matter with the Pharmaceutical Society of NI (PSNI) seeking assurances that the PSNI will undertake a full assessment of the administrative and/or organisational difficulties that were experienced to ensure no repeat occurs and to issue an appropriate response and offer any remedial actions which may be necessary.
PSNI has asked us to highlight that the correct procedure for raising concerns in respect of the CRA is via this link regexam@pharmacyregulation.org.
ACTION
Contractors are asked to bring this contractor update to the attention of any FYPs who sat the CRA this year and direct them to the website cited above to register any concerns they have where appropriate.
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
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