Information Governance Toolkit

This uear's Information Governance Toolkit needs to be completed by the end of March 2012  … more

Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday

PSNC have issued information about the changes to the May bank holiday brought about by the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The end of May bank holiday has been moved to Monday 4th June 2012 and the extra bank holiday will be on Tuesday 5th June 2012. … more

NHS Plymouth - Update refresher training EHC and Chlamydia Screening 2012

A training session has been organised for Plymouth pharmacies who are delivering the LES in Emergency Hormonal Contraception to 13-19 year olds and Chlamydia Screening on 24th April 2012.  … more

New Medicine Service - Complete our On Line Survey Now!

Now that three months have passed since it was launched, we would like to gauge how NMS is settling in across Devon. If you could spare us one minute of your time before the end of January, the link below will take you to a very short online survey of 4 questions. The survey is completely anonymous, and will help us to evaluate NMS so far. We will post some feedback on the website in early February. Thanks for your time!
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Draft Regulations to the Health Act 2009 - Market Entry by means of PNA and Quality and Performance

The LPC has submitted a response to the Department of Health. Views received following the consultation event held on 9th January have been included along with those sent in to the Secretariat. … more

2012 Medicine Supply Audit and Patient Stories

The paperwork has been sent out to pharmacies for the 2012 Medicine Supply Audit in conjunction with Chemist & Druggist. The audit is to run between the 23rd January and the 4th February.
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Seamless Care for Patients

New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicines Service (NMS) and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews (MURs) can be used to provide a seamless care pathway for patients who transfer from hospital to the community setting. … more

Devon LPC newsletter

The latest edition of the LPC newsletter has been sent out. … more

New Medicines Services/ Targetted MUR Reporting

As you will be aware, the New Medicines Services (NMS) went live on 1st October 2011. NMS is the fourth advanced service to be introduced into the NMS community pharmacy contract. It is being implemented to provide
support for people with long-term conditions who have been newly prescribed a medicine to help improve medicines adherence. It is initially focusing on particular patient groups and conditions. … more

Healthy Living Pharmacies

Following on from the World Cafe Event we held in November, information about how pharmacies can apply to become Healthy Living Pharmacies in Plymouth was posted out to all Plymouth contractors at the weekend. … more

Quit Kits for people to quit smoking

We have received several queries from pharmacies regarding the ordering of quit kits. An article appeared in the October 2011 LPC newsletter with the phone number for ordering the kits. The details are as follows;
The Department of Health is inviting pharmacies across England to distribute"quit kits" to smokers between January and March 2012. … more

New Medicines Service - Reporting

The LPC has received several queries regarding the completion of the quarterly reporting to the PCT. Please note that the pharmacies using the Pharmabase system will be able to produce an excel spreadsheet propulated with the required information; all other pharmacies will need to use the template excel spreadsheet. … more

Article in Chemist & Druggist showing signup rate across UK

Plese see the article which featured advice given by Devon LPC. … more

2011 Atlas of Variation Published

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Contact details for Devon PCTs

The up to date contact details for the cluster of PCTs in Devon have been received. … more

Pharmacy Leaflet

The DOH have produced an informative leaflet about the services community pharmacy provide … more

New Specials Tariff

The NPA has developed a number of resources to support members with the introduction of the new Specials Tariff.

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Calling Plymouth Pharmacy Teams. Healthy Living Pharmacy is coming to Plymouth!

The future of pharmacy is here! Plymouth has won an exciting opportunity to be involved in the Pharmacy Healthy Living Project. Plymouth is one of 20 sites nationally that have been given pilot status. … more

NHS Plymouth - New Medicines Service

The PCT has sent out a set of documents to each pharmacy.  … more

2011 Local health profiles available

Local Health Profiles, produced annually by the Public Health Observatories in England, are intended to give a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England, to assist local government and health services in making decisions and plans to improve local people's health and reduce health inequalities. The 2011 Profiles are now available to access via the link below.
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RPS produces quick reference guide on how to use the BNF

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has produced a quick reference guide that aims to provide a roadmap for pharmacists on where to look in the BNF for information.  … more

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society launches "ipharmacist.me"

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has launched "ipharmacist.me", an online resource for pharmacy based health campaigns, providing information about RPS health campaigns, medicines, and pharmacy. … more

LPC Briefing Paper - Branded To Generic Switches, A Saving At A Cost

Devon LPC, in association with the South West LPCs have produced a briefing paper on the effect of branded generic switches in community pharmacy. … more

Sexual and Mental Health resources available

Two new public health resources on mental health and sexual health have been announced by Mike O'Brien, the Minister of Health. … more

Sex, Drugs and Pharmacy's Role

The Chemist and Druggist has published some top tips for pharmacists offering sexual health services to their customers.  … more

Want to stop smoking?

Ask your pharmacist - You are four times more likely to quit using a NHS Stop Smoking Service … more

PSNC news

Essential Small Pharmacies LPS

Update - New Medicine Service – Essential Small Pharmacy LPSThe Secretary of State Directions under which Essential Small Pharmacy LPS is established… more

RPS clinical audit on bowel cancer

As part of the Royal Phamaceutical Society's push on the early detection of cancer in community pharmacy, they want to recruit community pharmacists across… more

Triple A: Avoid Asthma Attacks Campaign

Asthma UK has launched the Triple A: Avoid Asthma Attacks Campaign. The campaign will be running until early May.This coincides with the launch of the… more