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Dear Contractor,

CPNI is keen to capture through a short contractor survey, the views of the community pharmacy network on a range of aspects including pharmacy services, staffing levels, IT provision, contractor experiences and future plans.  The survey is available here.

I would encourage you to please complete this survey, as the results will provide valuable insights into the current community pharmacy landscape and will be used in an anonymised manner to brief MLAs at the upcoming Committee for Health meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025.

The questions relate specifically to the contractor perspective, so we would ask contractors to please submit a single response to the survey, irrespective of the number of contracts you may hold.

Please note: the survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete and consists of 25 questions which will appear as you proceed through the survey.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with CPNI offices if you need any further clarification or information.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
Dear Colleague
The third update of concessionary prices were granted today for February 2025:
DrugPack
Size		Concessionary Price
Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free7£4.98
Calcium and Ergocalciferol tablets28£6.82
Captopril 25mg tablets56£22.45
Clotrimazole 500mg pessary and Clotrimazole 2% cream1£6.30
Codeine 15mg/5ml linctus200£16.50
Diclofenac potassium 50mg tablets28£7.41
Lidocaine 2% cream30£3.81
Memantine 20mg tablets28£3.69
Mometasone 0.1% cream30£3.59
Oxybutynin 5mg tablets56£3.50
Propantheline bromide 15mg tablets112£103.33
Prucalopride 2mg tablets28£10.94
(previously £10.00)
Riluzole 50mg tablets56£361.07

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 Medicine Shortage Reporter.

Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
For the attention of Community Pharmacies providing the Autumn 2024/25 COVID-19 Community Pharmacy Vaccination Service 
Dear Contractor
SPPG have issued an important update on 25 February 2025 regarding 
the Autumn 2024/25 COVID-19 CPVS programme.

SUMMARY

  • The Autumn 2024/25 COVID-19 CPVS programme is to finish on 28 February 2025 and providers are requested to not vaccinate eligible cohorts after this date.
  • Any residual Comirnaty (Pfizer) JN.1 COVID-19 stock should be disposed of after 28 February 2025 in the waste bins provided.
  • SPPG have requested the number of disposed COVID-19 stock to be logged on to the following MS forms link here to help with future vaccination programme planning.
  • The Autumn 2024/25 Flu vaccination service will continue until 31 March 2025.
  • The CMO letter published today contains details of the upcoming Spring COVID-19 programme including the eligible cohorts and the expected start date. Further information regarding this will be shared by SPPG in the coming days.

ACTION

  • Contractors are asked to: 
    • Read the SPPG correspondence issued on 25 February 2025 regarding the Autumn 2024/25 COVID-19 vaccination programme and share with all relevant staff members.
    • Note the COVID-19 Autumn 2024/25 programme end date of 28 February 2025.

If you have any queries relating to this correspondence please contact Gráinne McMahon (Grainne.McMahon4@hscni.net) or Greg Miller  (Greg.Miller@hscni.net).

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
Dear Contractor,

CPNI is keen to capture through a short contractor survey, the views of the community pharmacy network on a range of aspects including pharmacy services, staffing levels, IT provision, contractor experiences and future plans.  The survey is available here.

I would encourage you to please complete this survey, as the results will provide valuable insights into the current community pharmacy landscape and will be used in an anonymised manner to brief MLAs at the upcoming Committee for Health meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025.

The questions relate specifically to the contractor perspective, so we would ask contractors to please submit a single response to the survey, irrespective of the number of contracts you may hold.

The return date for the survey is Wednesday 26th February 2025.  Please note: the survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete and consists of 25 questions which will appear as you proceed through the survey.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with CPNI offices if you need any further clarification or information.

Kind regards,

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams.

CPNI ALERTS

DOH(NI) ALERTS

BSO ALERTS

CPNI Contractor Survey February 2025

CPNI is keen to capture through a short contractor survey, the views of the community pharmacy network on a range of aspects including pharmacy services, staffing levels, IT provision, contractor experiences and future plans.  The survey is available here.

We would encourage contractors to please complete this survey, as the results will provide valuable insights into the current community pharmacy landscape and will be used in an anonymised manner to brief MLAs at the upcoming Committee for Health meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025.

Living Well Campaign  “Look after your mental health”

Kathy Owens, Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement Manager at the PHA joins Justin Crozier, Community Pharmacist and Campaign Champion at the campaign launch at Toome Pharmacy.

This campaign is running throughout February and March 2025 and the social media planner for this campaign is available here (Living Well – Business Services Organisation (BSO) Website).

The campaign press release is available here.

Breastival Event

A baby feeding event is being held on Saturday 22nd February 2025 12-2pm at the Senate Room at Queens University Belfast.  The event which is contributing to the Science Festival will be discussing infant feeding in a changing climate and is open to all staff and mums with an interest in this area.

Further information including tickets can be found here.

Funded Pharmacy Training

CPNI has been made aware that funded pharmacy training places have been made available through Global Horizon Skills, in partnership with the Department for Economy.  Further information is available here.

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

Or report medicine shortages, pricing and staffing issues via CPNI’s Medicine Shortage Reporter and Situation Reporter.

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

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
Gerard Greene
Chief Executive

Dear Contractor,

CPNI is keen to capture through a short contractor survey, the views of the community pharmacy network on a range of aspects including pharmacy services, staffing levels, IT provision, contractor experiences and future plans.  The survey is available here.

I would encourage you to please complete this survey, as the results will provide valuable insights into the current community pharmacy landscape and will be used in an anonymised manner to brief MLAs at the upcoming Committee for Health meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025.

The questions relate specifically to the contractor perspective, so we would ask contractors to please submit a single response to the survey, irrespective of the number of contracts you may hold.

The return date for the survey is Wednesday 26th February 2025.  Please note: the survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete and consists of 25 questions which will appear as you proceed through the survey.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with CPNI offices if you need any further clarification or information.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive