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As a further update to our article about Monday 19th September being declared a Bank Holiday at short notice, NHS England has confirmed that all community pharmacies’ Directory of Service (DoS) and NHS website entries will automatically be set to show all pharmacies as closed on this date. Advice on the action required is provided below. It is [...]

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PSNC and NHS Digital are encouraging community pharmacy teams to share their views relating to the new NHS Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS). This will ensure that the tool supports the needs of pharmacy team members and their patients. BaRS is an interoperability standard for healthcare IT systems which should enable booking and referral information [...]

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Since the recent launch of the NHS Profile Manager tool, which uses NHSmail accounts to allow pharmacy team members to login to it, both PSNC and the NHSmail team have received an increasing number of questions from pharmacy contractors regarding NHSmail. NHSmail is an NHS funded and managed secure email service which has been approved [...]

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Community pharmacy contractors are reminded of the Terms of Service requirement to ensure they verify and, where necessary, update the information contained in their NHS website profile and their Directory of Services (DoS) profile at least once each quarter* of the financial year. For the current financial quarter, the deadline for completing this is 30th September 2022. Contractor [...]

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Following the rollout of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) functionality for Real Time Exemption Checking, PSNC has received many queries from contractors. A sample of these questions is included further below. Overview RTEC allows pharmacy teams to check digitally if patients are eligible for free NHS prescriptions because they hold a specific exemption. [...]

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