Archives: Contractor Email

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:

  1. Weekly drug alerts, shortages information, and serious shortage protocols.
  2. CPNI security grant reminder, CPVS, VBS, and VMS updates.
  3. CPNI Thank You to Community Pharmacy
  4. Concessionary Prices Final Update March
  5. DoH COVID-19 vaccination cohort expansion, Robin Swann receives vaccine at a community pharmacy following its launch this week.
  6. HSCB COVID CPVS updates, resources, and reporting.
  7. NI Medicines Management Newsletter

BSO ALERTS 

CPNI ALERTS 

DoH ALERTS 

HSCB ALERTS 

NORTHERN IRELAND FORMULARY ALERTS 

March 2021, Volume 12, Issue 3

PHARMACY FORUM ALERTS 

PSNI ALERTS 

Pharmaceutical Society NI welcomes launch of public consultation – Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public.

Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).

Pharmacy team(s) can keep updated via CPNI’s Contractor Calendar and Contractor Emails.

Or report medicine shortages or pricing issues via the CPNI’s Medicine Shortage Reporter

Many thanks, stay safe – Gareth

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

Dear Colleague

Please find HERE correspondence from Joe Brogan, Assistant Director of Integrated Care, issued in January 2021.

If you wish to avail of funding, please complete the attached claim form (Appendix 2) and submit original receipted invoices dated prior to 31 March 2021 along with the completed security self-assessment form as soon as possible.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

Dear Colleague

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

Please note that due to an essential systems update VMS will be unavailable from Thursday 1 April 9pm until Friday 2nd April 8am.

Pharmacies will not be able to access the system during this period.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

Dear Colleague

Please see letter here.

I would be grateful if you could also share this with your pharmacy team members.

Yours sincerely

SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

Dear Colleague

Following the contractor meeting held on, Tuesday 30 March 2021, CPNI wrote to provide additional information regarding SimplyBook.Me (SBM) Vaccine Booking Systems (VBS). 

As mentioned at the contractor meeting CPNI will be providing the URL’s to BSO/PHA shortly after mid-day today, Thursday 1 April 2021, for those pharmacies that have undertaken the steps listed HERE and detailed in the SBM VBS User Manual and who are ready for their pharmacy VBS platform to go-live to the public on the PHA/BSO interactive map. 

Can I ask those contractors who wish to have their booking system details published on the BSO/PHA interactive map to advise Gareth Gilvary at CPNI offices via email (ggilvary@communitypharmacyni.co.uk) of your contractor number(s) and pharmacy name, so that CPNI can share the relevant URL details with BSO/PHA this afternoon. I ask that you confirm this with Gareth by 1PM TODAY, THURSDAY 1 APRIL 2021. 

For those contractors that require additional time to complete the requisite steps CPNI will be liaising with BSO/PHA after the Easter holidays to undertake a follow-up URL upload.

CPNI will continue to provide you with resources and assistance in relation to the Community Pharmacy COIVID-19 Vaccination Service and the SBM VBS.

Please do not hesitate to contact CPNI offices should you require additional information or assistance.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

Dear Colleague

Please find HERE for your attention, correspondence from Kathryn Turner, Pharmacy Lead, HSCB.

It is important to note that the Vaccine Management System (VMS) is now operational and that all vaccinations should be recorded on VMS from this point. Any vaccinations previously recorded using the paper vaccination record should be entered on VMS as soon as possible. 

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive