Community Pharmacy Derbyshire

08/09/2025

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!

This annual health awareness campaign delivered by Blood Pressure UK is looking to find the missing 5 million people living in the UK unknowingly with high blood pressure. Community pharmacy can play a key role in helping to identify these people via the Blood Pressure Service.

There are lots of FREE assets (such as the graphics below that are great for social media or use on your pharmacy's website) available from Blood Pressure UK to promote Know Your Numbers Week. You can download them here 👇🏻

🔗 https://www.bloodpressureuk.org/know-your-numbers/know-your-numbers-week/

05/09/2025

𝗖𝗣𝗘 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀

Community Pharmacy England has announced the “provisional” launch dates of three key changes to the pharmacy contract, which NHS England (NHSE) will confirm “nearer the time” subject to IT updates being ready.

CPE set out that:

✅ New clinical pathways and patient group directions (PGDs) for the Pharmacy First service are due to launch on October 1
✅ The rollout of free oral emergency contraception (EC) in pharmacies is due to launch on October 29
✅ The expansion of the NMS to include depression is due to launch on October 29

Read more here from the team at +D 👇🏻 https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/clinical/cpe-reveals-start-date-for-free-morning-after-pill-in-pharmacies-QFQLJBWPSZCZXLMPOM2JW7PZ5A/

The negotiator has announced the “provisional” launch dates of three key changes to the pharmacy contract, which NHS England (NHSE) will confirm “nearer the time” subject to IT updates being ready.

03/09/2025

𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗮 𝗣𝗚𝗗 💉

Please find below a link to the Adult Influenza PGD v14.0 that has been regionally authorised, and uploaded to the NHSE Midlands website.

🔗https://www.england.nhs.uk/midlands/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2025/08/20250730-UKHSA_Inactivated-Influenza-Vaccine-PGD-v14.0.pdf

If you have any questions or queries around routine immunisation (Section 7A) and Covid enquiries/incidents (including cold chain & vaccine incidents), please email East Midlands Immunisation Clinical Advice Service (EMICAS) at
📧 england.imms@nhs.net

03/09/2025

📢 Reminder: Please join us at Community Pharmacy England's Community Pharmacy Parliamentary drop-in on Monday 8th September at 16.30 - 18.30 in Portcullis House, hosted by Neil Coyle.

MPs are invited to hear directly from frontline pharmacists about the challenges & opportunities for community pharmacy.

We'd love to see you Catherine Atkinson, Baggy Shanker MP, Jonathan Davies, Linsey Farnsworth, Natalie Fleet, Louise Jones, Samantha Niblett, Jon Pearce, Toby Perkins, Adam Thompson and John Whitby!

02/09/2025

Freshers' Fayre number 1 is go!

Our service implementation and support manager, Chris Kerry, is at Burton and South Derbyshire College Freshers' Fayre today to chat to students about the Pharmacy Contraception Service and Pharmacy First.

Please pop by and say "hello" if you're attending!

01/09/2025

✍️ 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟮𝟳 𝗖𝗣𝗖𝗙 𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 📋⚖️

Community Pharmacy England would like to know what you, as a pharmacy owner, would like to see in the 2026/27 CPCF.

A new opinion poll gives you the chance to feed into national negotiating priorities and to help push for more support for the sector.

Share your views before 8th September using this link 👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BYXRBJY

29/08/2025

Calling all Freshers! 📚

To raise awareness of the Pharmacy Contraception Service, we'll be attending Burton and South Derbyshire College's Fresher's Fair on Tuesday 2nd September. See you there!

28/08/2025

𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗙𝗹𝘂 𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿

Can we remind contractors who want to provide the Childhood Flu Vaccination Service that, in order to receive centrally procured vaccine ahead of the start of the service on 1st October 2025, you will need to register on the NHS Business Service Authority’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal by 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗼𝗻 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

Later registration on MYS will be possible, but the provision of the centrally procured vaccine will be received after the starting date for the service.

https://cpe.org.uk/national-pharmacy-services/advanced-services/childhood-flu-vaccination-service/

26/08/2025

𝗖𝗣𝗘 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗙𝗹𝘂 𝘃𝗮𝗰 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: 𝗼𝗻-𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱

A recording of Community Pharmacy England's webinar on the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Service is now available to watch on-demand.

The webinar provides some context and background to the service, explains how the service will operate and provides operational information to support pharmacy owners as they prepare to provide it.

You can watch the webinar here 👇🏻
https://cpe.org.uk/our-work/updates-events/our-webinars/childhood-flu-vaccination-service-on-demand-webinar/

22/08/2025

𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲! '𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵...'

We're asking each of our committee members to talk for 5 minutes, during a committee meeting, about how they got into pharmacy and their career to date.

Kicking off proceedings is independent contractor and pharmacy manager at Spondon Pharmacy, 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗻𝗱, who is also a member of our Governance Sub-Committee.

⭐️ Matt’s dad recruited him into his very pharmacy first job at the age of 8. “He paid me 50p for hoovering the pharmacy every day,” laughs Matt. “Several years later and I’m still here, although I don’t do hoovering anymore!”

⭐️ Matt and his parents lived above the family’s pharmacy so, before embarking on a Pharmacy degree at Keele University, he was already well-versed in the running of a community pharmacy.

Says Matt: “I actually worked in the pharmacy properly from the age of 16 and, after graduating from Keele in 2013, I did my pre-reg with Burrows & Close. I then spent a few years with Boots UK in South Yorkshire, starting as a relief pharmacist and then taking on increased responsibilities as a store pharmacist.

“I took over my dad’s pharmacy in 2016 and haven’t looked back.”

When he’s not working, Matt can be found spending time with his two children and playing cricket whenever he gets the chance.

21/08/2025

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲?

We've teamed up with Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire to host a FREE Community Pharmacy Support Event on Sunday 14th September and you and your team are all invited!

We have a jam-packed agenda - take a look 👀 and book your ticket here 👇🏻https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-pharmacy-support-event-tickets-1514198170489?aff=oddtdtcreator

10:00 – 12:00: Pharmacy Contraception Service with Emma Anderson / Kathryn Giles - CPPE 2 hour workshop NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service: delivering effective consultations to initiate contraception.

12:00 – 12:45: Lunch

12:45 – 13:00: Hypertension Case Finding – using the wider team to support delivery with Robert Severn, Chair of Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire

13:00 – 14:00: ABPM fitting interactive session
Ben Eaton, Chair of Community Pharmacy Derbyshire - Please bring your ABPM machine to support

14:00 – 14:20: Engaging with General Practice – local implementation of the pathway with Ben Milton from Derbyshire LMC

14:20 – 14:30: Refreshment break

14:30 – 15:00: New Medicine Service with Mike Jones, Service Implementation Lead, CPN (New Medicine Service – Changes to contract re sub-contracting – New medicine added – October 2025 – New claiming)

15:00 – 15:15: Question & Answer Session with CPD & CPN committee staff

15:15 - 15:30: Close

20/08/2025

𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

'Know Your Numbers Week' will take place from 8-14th September 2025. The theme for 2025 is the fact that 5 million people living in the UK unknowingly have high blood pressure and we need to find them. And it's a great opportunity to reach out to existing and new patients and encourage them to have their blood pressure checked in your pharmacy!

Community pharmacy plays a huge role in identifying individuals with high blood pressure through the Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service. So, once again, we're supporting this initiative and would encourage contractors to do the same.

https://www.bloodpressureuk.org/know-your-numbers/know-your-numbers-resources/