Friday 1st November 2019

Nov Dec Jan 2020 Feb 2020 NHSE –What’s

coming up…

4th Contractual Public Health Campaign, Stay Well This Winter, commences…

Flu Season continues…

New Year’s Day 01.01.2020

Week1 CPAF Full Questionnaire Open for Selected Pharmacies.

(notice to relevant contractors will be provided in advance accordingly).

…Think about EoY 2019-2020…

Week2

3rd Public Health Campaign (Stoptober) Evaluation Due on PharmOutcomes (closes 14.10.2019)

CPAF assurance visits commence

(for selected contractors)

Week3 PQS - update NHS website profile and DoS profile before 11.59pm 30th November 2019 to ensure gateway criteria is met.

Christmas Day 25.12.2019 Boxing Day 26.12.2019

Week4

Friday 1st Nov 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement – South West

E: england.pharmacysouthwest@nhs.net | W: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/info-professional/pharm-info/sw-pharm/ | A: Peninsula House, Kingsmill Rd, Saltash, PL12 6LE.

IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: White Bold Text = New Articles Added This Week. CONTRACT: → Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) …HERE → Mandatory Campaign - STOPTOBER…HERE → COMING SOON - Help Us Help You (HUHY) Stay Well

This Winter (SWTW): November & December 2019…HERE

IMPORTANT: → CPCS…HERE → SSP02 Fluoxetine 30mg capsules and SSP03

Fluoxetine 40mg capsules extended…HERE → Fluenz Supply…HERE… → Flu Vaccination for Learning Disability Patients…HERE → Can GP practice and pharmacy staff be vaccinated

with the NHS flu vaccination PGD?...HERE → EU Exit Medicines…HERE TRAINING: → Virtual Outcomes: CPCS Service

NOW LIVE……HERE

The Second PharmOutcomes module for CPCS is now Available…

The second of three CPCS videos on You Tube now, HERE, which aims to

explain the pharmacy follow up stage PharmOutcomes.

CPCS will see participating pharmacies receiving referrals, sent by NHS 111, direct to PharmOutcomes. A list of newly created CPCS guides have been published on PharmOutcomes for contractors, HERE. Other support/sources of information available:

→ service specification is on the NHS CPCS registration page on the NHS Business Services Authority’s Manage Your Services portal

→ Self-assessment tool; and an NHS CPCS toolkit. → PSNC template standard operating procedure (SOP) for the service which

contractors can adopt if they wish. → The PSNC has also circulated a useful checklist for contractors, HERE.

Further detail and links to relevant info attached.

NOW LIVE - Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)…

Friday 1st Nov 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement – South West

E: england.pharmacysouthwest@nhs.net | W: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/info-professional/pharm-info/sw-pharm/ | A: Peninsula House, Kingsmill Rd, Saltash, PL12 6LE.

Find out more, HERE, via the NPA or alternatively, via your LPC.

Important: New Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS)… Support is available via PSNC and PharmOutcomes to assist community pharmacy contractors with meeting the criteria of the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS). Community pharmacy contractors can now view the NHSBSA weekly dataset report to check if meeting three (Advanced Services, NHSmail and NHS website) gateway criteria of the PQS, HERE (available under the ‘PQS datasets’ section). The report can also act as a double check that all tasks have been completed correctly and if not, provides an opportunity to rectify errors accordingly. NHS England & NHS Improvement haves published guidance on the PQS, HERE.

PQS ‘To-Do’ List (Oct 2019) … Register for MYS - more info HERE.

Claim for an aspiration payment on MYS (window closes 01.11.19)

Demonstrate access to SCR and update to NHS 111 DoS Profiles or, ***see article below, HERE, re. this criteria*** for Distance Selling Pharmacies (DSP’s) to send an email to the NHSBSA Provider Assurance Team.

Asthma & Diabetes Quality Criterion…(Diabetes foot and eye check audit available on VirtualOutcomes, HERE.

Review Amendments to the drug tariff relating to reimbursement and renumeration, in relation to: o Serious shortage Protocol (SSPs) o Establishment Payment Changes o Transitional Payments

Ensure all patient facing staff are Dementia Friends. More info via the PSNC, HERE.

Consider if you could be a Pharmacy PCN Lead. More info, HERE.

**For all this information and more, see the attached PDF ‘Important pharmacy Quality Scheme Dates for the diary’, also available (and more)

electronically via the PSNC, HERE**.

Attached below is the Guidance document along with the authorisation form you will need to complete to register for MYS.

Manage Your Service Registration and Log-

MYS Access Authorisation Form.d

More info HERE.

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Virtual Outcomes: New Service to Support PQS: Foot & Eye Care… → Do you know how to implement and

complete the new diabetic foot and eye check audit?

→ Do you want support in managing this in the most effective way in the pharmacy?

→ What part can your team play?

Access the online Training Library, HERE.

**Once you have submitted your authorisation form, each named individual will receive an email to their personal NHSmail address from Microsoft Invitations (invites@microsoft.com) on behalf of MYS Registrations; click get started within the email to start the individual set-up process**.

Virtual Outcomes: NOW LIVE - New Service to Support CPCS… → Do you know how to implement

and deliver the new pharmacy service CPCS?

→ How are you going to train locums? → What part can the team play? Access the online Training Library, HERE.

Friday 1st Nov 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement – South West

E: england.pharmacysouthwest@nhs.net | W: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/info-professional/pharm-info/sw-pharm/ | A: Peninsula House, Kingsmill Rd, Saltash, PL12 6LE.

…for your continuing support with campaigns, your

participation is vital in getting these important messages out

to the public.

Stoptober 2019… Your contractual Stoptober campaign finished 31st October 2019.

Evaluation NOW DUE on PharmOutcomes between 01.11.19-15.11.19.

As part of your contractual requirements all pharmacies should participate in the 6 national campaigns, contractually you are required to report back the number of conversations that you undertake, even if it is a nil response. Please note that only submission of evaluation through PharmOutcomes will be accepted as proof of participation in any campaign. Non-Responding pharmacy contractors will be followed up by letter in relation to contractual campaign.

EU Exit Medicines… The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have issued a list of medicines which must not be parallel exported from the UK. This action has been taken to ensure the continued supply of medicines to meet the needs of UK patients. Find the full list of affected products and more info, HERE. NHS England has published updated information re. planning for continuity of supply of medicines in the case of a no deal EU exit, HERE.

COMING SOON - Help Us Help You (HUHY) Stay Well This Winter (SWTW): November & December 2019… HUHY Stay Well This Winter is the 4th NHS England contractual public health campaign for all community pharmacy and Distance Selling Pharmacy (DSP) contractors. From the week commencing 23rd October 2019 all community pharmacies in England will receive a pack containing resources to support the mandated “Help Us Help You” winter campaign. This campaign will be running on TV, online and social media, as well on billboards across the country. The campaign will encourage the public to seek advice from their pharmacy team for their common ailments and help you support people to make the right decision and get the right treatment and/or advice at the right time this winter. Please ensure that you are displaying the “Help us help you stay well this winter” campaign material during November and December 2019: The pack will also include non-mandatory campaign materials such as “exemption checking” and “NHS 111 services” that you may also find helpful.

All these resources will arrive in the same box via the Healthcare Distribution Association delivery

to your pharmacy. If you have not received your pack by 15 November, visit the PHE Campaign Resource Centre,

HERE. The Campaign Resource Centre also has social media, digital screens and other digital resources that DSPs and community pharmacies may also find helpful. A zip folder with a selection of posters and leaflets is also attached to this bulletin for ease.

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Friday 1st Nov 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement – South West

E: england.pharmacysouthwest@nhs.net | W: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/info-professional/pharm-info/sw-pharm/ | A: Peninsula House, Kingsmill Rd, Saltash, PL12 6LE.

Fluenz Supply… • Vaccine supply for the 2019/20 children’s flu programme: AstraZeneca is delaying their delivery of some batches of the childhood nasal spray flu vaccine (Fluenz Tetra®) due to be delivered to PHE in November. Please see the briefing note from PHE, attached, for more information. • Recommended vaccines for next year JCVI have published their statement on vaccines for 2020/21, HERE. • 6 condition specific (Diabetes, -Heart Disease, -Liver

Disease, -Neurological Disease, -Respiratory Conditions and -Chronic Kidney Disease) leaflets have been developed by the Southwest Screening & Immunisation Team to support delivery of flu vaccination to ‘at risk’ populations

o Available HERE, under ‘Resources for those delivering the flu vaccine in 2019-20 .

Can GP practice and pharmacy staff be vaccinated with the NHS flu vaccination PGD? All providers should refer to the national flu programme, HERE, and influenza vaccine guidance for healthcare practitioners, HERE.

If you have any queries, please contact: england.swscreeningandimms@nhs.net

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Message for Community Pharmacists from the NHS England & NHS Improvement Learning Disability Programme Team… We know that many of you will already be actively administering the flu vaccination to people with a learning disability as part of your day to day work. Following feedback from our user groups, the learning disability programme would like to provide you with resources that may help you engage more people with a learning disability. We know that around 1 in 3 deaths of people with a learning disability are caused by respiratory problems and the number of respiratory related deaths increases during winter. Having the flu jab can help avoid preventable deaths for people with a learning disability during this period.

Pharmacists have played a crucial role in helping protect vulnerable groups from flu by administering over 1.43 million flu vaccinations last winter. We want to support you to reach people with a learning disability so we can increase the number of people who are protected. An easy read poster and leaflet https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-leaflet-for-people-with-learning-disability are available to download and display in your pharmacy. We also suggest that you ask people who present themselves as having a learning disability if they are protected against flu and administer the vaccination as appropriate.

SSP02 Fluoxetine 30mg capsules and SSP03 Fluoxetine 40mg capsules have

been extended…

(SSP01 for Fluoxetine 10mg capsules was withdrawn from 23.55pm Friday 25th October 2019). The extension dates can be seen in the table below: SSP Current expiry date

SSP02: Fluoxetine 30mg capsules

This SSP has been varied – the revised end date is now 20th November 2019

SSP03: Fluoxetine 40mg capsules

This SSP has been varied – the revised end date is now 11th November 2019

These expiry dates may be brought forward or extended, and the content may be amended throughout this period. Pharmacists should ensure they are using the current version of an SSP before supplying an alternative product.

Friday 1st Nov 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement – South West

E: england.pharmacysouthwest@nhs.net | W: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/info-professional/pharm-info/sw-pharm/ | A: Peninsula House, Kingsmill Rd, Saltash, PL12 6LE.

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Janet Newport NHS England - South West**

Peninsula House Kingsmill Road Tamar View Industrial Estate Saltash, PL12 6LE **Please note that any items posted to NHS England will NOT be received unless sent to our Saltash office, details above.

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In addition, if you know of any colleagues who would like to receive a copy of the E-Communication each week please send an e-mail with their name, place of work and e-mail address to our generic mailbox and we will add them to our distribution list.

Please see our website “NHS England South West (South) Community pharmacy” for more information and any blank templates, forms and documents. For reference available documents are, Contact Details (UPDATED MARCH 2019); Forms for requesting changes to Core or Supplementary hours; Blank unplanned closure form; links to the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments (PNAs); links to LPCs; MUR guidance, MUR/NMS blank templates; Significant Incident reporting form and Serious Difficulty application forms…

…Also available via the website – Translation & Interpretation Service Guidance…