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The mid-term election for an ‘Independent regional representative’ for Community Pharmacy England’s East and North Midlands region begins next week. This follows Lindsey Fairbrother’s resignation from the Committee. Eligible pharmacists* who are Independent pharmacy owners and members or officers of one of the LPCs in the region are invited to stand for election as the [...]

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The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (CPPSG) has issued various bank holiday resources that are useful for pharmacy owners and their team members in the run-up to the Easter bank holiday period.  The resources focus on support for pharmacy owners managing additional challenges regarding opioid treatment programmes during bank holiday periods.  Focus on Methadone video – watch now  Bank Holiday Checklist – opioid treatment programmes – download now  Pharmacy owners and pharmacy team members are also reminded to follow [...]

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Pharmacy owners are reminded that they are not permitted to subcontract the New Medicine Service (NMS) to third-party, off-site providers. If they do, contrary to the Directions last year, they run the risk of recovery of the payment for these services by ICBs (through NHS England’s Post-Payment Verification processes) and being found in breach of [...]

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From 1 June 2026, the Manage Your Service (MYS) will be the only route to notify ICBs of temporary suspensions/closures. This week, NHS England announced that it was giving advance notice of changes to the approved manner of reporting temporary suspensions of service or likely temporary suspensions of service (temporary closures) to ICBs. The changes [...]

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In November last year, we reported a number of concerns about EPS pharmacy nominations and re-nominations without patient consent.  We also said we were concerned that certain IT functionality available to some pharmacy owners appeared to facilitate automatic patient re-nomination (without patient consent) and were discussing this issue with NHS England.  We can confirm that NHS England agreed with our concerns and wrote to pharmacy [...]

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