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New Name New UTI Service Spec and more
Locally commissioned UTI service is returning this month with a new name, new SLA and new PGD. Now called Community...
September Controlled Drugs Newsletter
Please find below the Controlled Drugs Newsletter, September 2020. This issue relates to: Pregabalin update CQC Update Case study –...
Alimentum – PIP code issues
We have been advised by our local Abbot Nutrition team that there are two PIP codes listed by C&D for...
New Gluten Free Guidelines for South Staffordshire
The South Staffordshire CCGs have been reviewing gluten-free prescribing in the area, particularly as North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs restricted...
Premises and workforce risk assessments
FROM NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT Risk Assessments for BAME and other at risk staff You will have seen evidence...
COVID-19 Testing Update (6th July)
The process for booking COVID-19 Tests for all essential workers (and those living with an essential worker) with symptoms is...
Covid Clinical Trial in West Midlands
West Midlands is taking part in the national PRINCIPLE clinical trial, which aims to find low-risk treatments for older people...
Staffordshire Stop Smoking Service Newsletter COVID-19 UPDATE
FACE-TO-FACE SMOKING CONSULTATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CEASED Hints and Tips for Smoking Cessation Pharmacies CHL have put together the following hints...
EPS Phase 4 Roll-out
EPS Phase 4 is now available for roll-out nationally, for practices using TPP SystmOne and EMIS Web; in short, this...
Decommissioning of the Staffordshire Pharmacy Quit Smoking Service
We have been informed by Central Health Solutions (the West Midlands’ regional pharmacy “provider company”) that the quit smoking service...
URGENT! Telephone number error on Humankind prescriptions
Please DO NOT use the telephone number listed for Humankind on their FP10MDA prescriptions! We have today been informed that...
CPPE e-course to support those returning to front-line community pharmacy
The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) has launched a new e-course designed to help pharmacy professionals returning to pharmacy...
Latest PSNC News
Briefing MPs on COVID-19 costs
PSNC is continuing its work to brief Parliamentarians on the financial pressures facing community pharmacies. Ahead of the Budget, PSNC...
March 5, 2021Ventilation of indoor spaces to help stop the spread of coronavirus
New guidance has been published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on how ventilation in the workplace...
March 5, 2021No Smoking Day 2021
No Smoking Day is a national campaign that encourages the nation’s smokers to make a quit attempt on the second...
March 5, 2021PEPS payments information
Contractors signed up to the Pharmacy Earlier Payments Scheme (PEPS) will have received their payments on 1 March directly from...
March 5, 2021