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The 2023/24 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire is now available for completion until midnight on Sunday 30th July 2023. The short screening questionnaire consists of 10 questions. Pharmacy owners who use the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Manage Your Service (MYS) portal will be required to complete the questionnaire on the portal. Those who are [...]

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The 2023/24 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire will be available for completion from approximately 1am on Monday 3rd July 2023 until midnight on Sunday 30th July 2023. As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion of CPAF is now a requirement of the Terms of Service. Therefore, contractors must complete [...]

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NHS England has published the template forms to be used when submitting applications and notifications for the new regulations that came into force today. Contractors are encouraged to review the updated briefing before completing a notification or application using the templates and sending to the ICB. NHS England – Pharmacy Manual – Pharmacy Template Forms. [...]

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 The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is conducting a consultation on the update of the professional standards for error reporting and are looking for views to ensure the standards are current, clear, relevant, and fit for purpose: The ‘Professional standards for the reporting, learning, sharing, taking action and review of incidents’ are being reviewed in collaboration [...]

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The new, imposed NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (PLPS) Regulations 2013 come into force tomorrow, 25 May 2023, and introduce:  a ‘notification’ procedure for 100-hour pharmacies to reduce their total weekly core opening hours to no less than 72 hours, subject to various requirements;   a notification procedure for introducing or changing rest breaks, by [...]

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