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Pharmacy owners are reminded that while the flu vaccination service can now be provided to pregnant women, vaccination of all other eligible adult cohorts for the 2024/25 campaign cannot commence until 3rd October 2024. Read our earlier news story for further context The delayed start for the main adult cohorts applies to both pharmacies and [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has released a summary of the meeting of the Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG)  held in June 2024. The group discussed GP Connect developments Piloting for Electronic Prescription Service and the detained estates and secondary care Vaccination IT Artificial intelligence NHS Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) pharmacy IT If you would [...]

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We have received several queries regarding the deadline for claiming payments and when pharmacy owners will receive payments for the Pharmacy First service. The service specification states, “Claims for payments should be submitted within one month of, and no later than three months from the claim period for the chargeable activity provided”. Therefore, if you [...]

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Community pharmacies and optical practices in Humber and North Yorkshire are working together to identify patients suitable for the Hypertension Case-Finding Service in a pilot which has recently been commissioned for another year (until 31st March 2025). Across the two areas, so far, 126 community pharmacies and 36 optical practices have participated in the pilot, [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the latest Data Security and Protection Toolkit. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Sunday 30th June 2024. Community Pharmacy England has collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload [...]

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