Correspondence has been issued by SPPG on 5th August 2024 regarding the Living Well Campaign.
SUMMARY
The survey for the campaign ‘MMR vaccination’ opened on 5th August 2024 and can be accessed here.
The survey will remain open until 6pm on 2nd September 2024.
The current campaign ‘Live longer and stronger’ began on 1st August 2024 and online resources for this campaign can be found on the BSO website.
ACTION
Contractors are asked to review the correspondence issued by SPPG on 5th August 2024 regarding the Living Well Service and share with relevant team members.
The survey for the campaign ‘MMR vaccination’ is now available and must be completed before 6pm on 2nd September 2024.
Online resources for the current campaign ‘Live longer and stronger’ are available on the BSO website.
For any further information please contact CPNI offices.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
Dear Colleague
The following concessionary prices granted in July 2024 have rolled over to August 2024:
Drug
Pack Size
Concessionary Price
Clomipramine 50mg capsules
28
£7.99
Flucloxacillin 250mg/5ml oral solution sugar free
100
£4.19
Perindopril erbumine 8mg tablets
30
£7.98
Tacrolimus 0.1% ointment
60
£47.28
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.
NICPLD has advised CPNI that a memo has been issued to Practice Supervisors inviting them to attend refresher training. A copy of the memo is available here. Should contractors have any questions in relation to experiential learning please contact Ennis in CPNI offices.
To assist contractors, CPNI has developed an 18 minute recorded presentation which provides the background to technician registration, the work carried out to date, the purpose of the CPNI survey and some important points to consider when providing your responses.
SUMMARY
The CPNI Community Pharmacy Survey is available here.
Please note that it is important that Contractors complete this survey as the findings will be crucial for CPNI in advocating for equitable resourcing to support the technician workforce in the community sector, as required to sustain the community pharmacy workforce going forward.
Should you have any queries, please contact a member of the team or email your query to Ennis.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams.
SPPG has advised CPNI that the Irish Medication Safety Network (IMSN) in collaboration with HSC/Transforming Medication Safety Northern Ireland (TMSNI) will host the first All-island Medication Safety Conference in the Printworks, Dublin Castle on 29th November 2024. Community pharmacists who wish to attend can Register online from 01 August 2024.
Health professionals, including community pharmacists, are invited to showcase some of the medication safety initiatives they have been involved in, by submitting an abstract for presentation at the conference. If this is an area of interest to you or your pharmacy team you may wish to contact the TMSNI team by emailing medicine.safety@hscni.net, or alternatively contact Clare or Ennis at CPNI for further support and guidance.
Foundation Training Applications now Open
NICPLD has advised CPNI that applications are now open for the Post-Registration Foundation Training programme (starting September 2024). Applications for both FP1 and FP2 can be accessed via the below links, when pharmacists are logged in to their NICPLD account:
Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF Gerard Greene Chief Executive
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