Practice PLT Dates added

Practice Protected Learning Time dates for Stafford & Surrounds and South East Staffs & Seisdon Peninsula areas have been added...

Pharmacy First for Common Ailments – Impact of new national and local guidance

Following the guidance recently issued by NHS England on the prescribing of OTC medicines for conditions which could be managed...

Controlled Drugs Newsletter April 2018

Please find below a copy of the Controlled Drugs Newsletetr for April 2018. recently circulated by NHS England’s CD Accountable...

GDPR and the LPC – Update your subscription now!!

You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. The...

Pharmacy Openings May Bank Holidays 2018

The list of Staffordshire pharmacies open over both May Bank Holidays in 2018 has been uploaded to the NHS England website.   The...

Quality Payments Scheme Extended into 2018-19

The Department of Health has now announced that while the negotiations for the 2018-19 pharmacy contract take place the 2017-18...

Recording on PharmOutcomes:

The LPC have produced a series of videos explaining how to use PharmOutcomes to record services.  There are several short...

Methotrexate Patient Safety Info

 Improving compliance with oral methotrexate guidelines This NPSA alert was originally issued in 2006 and of course pharmacists and their teams...

HEE Funded Post-grad Training for community pharmacists

IMPORTANT: If you are interested in taking up some of the post-grad training at Keele you are advised to apply...

100 Hour Pharmacies – new online reporting process for opening hours

As of Monday 5th February 2018 the Responsible Pharmacist (RP) logs will be available for completion via PharmOutcomes. Therefore you...

12-batch electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) – expiry after 365 days

One of our LPC members has had a small number of eRD prescriptions expire before being able to dispense and...

Safety update from the CD Accountable Officer for NHS England

Dear colleague We are writing to bring to your attention two patient safety issues, these are covered in the letter...