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London ICB trialling retention scheme for practice pharmacists ... ow the trumpet for North East London, who have the highest uptake rate in London for the new Pharmacy First scheme. That’s because it builds on the community pharmacy consultation service, which we have the highest referral rate for in England,’ Ms Etheridge told Healthcare Leader. In February, Community Pharmacy North East London chief executive Shilpa Shah revealed that the area had seen 8,400 Pharmacy First consultations as a re ... Date: 24-04-2024 Categories: • In Practice • News
‘The devil’s in the detail’: What will England’s national Pharmacy First service mean locally? ... sible’, he says. In his area of South West London, the local Integrated Care Board (ICB) supports general practices and pharmacies to deliver the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) and the Hypertension Case-Finding Service, as well as funding infrastructure to support the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) alongside a DMS working group. ‘That local support becomes the foundation of the delivery of service – whether it' ... Date: 23-05-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News
GPs join calls for minor ailments scheme ... ilments schemes were in place across the country. Yet NHS England’s ban in 2018 on spending on OTC medicines led to most schemes being decommissioned as not good value for money. The Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) introduced in 2019 is often no help to those on the lowest incomes because they have to pay for the medicines so end up getting referred back to the GP, notes Dr Richard Vautrey, assistant medical secretary ... Date: 05-05-2023 Categories: • News
New materials to help explain CPCS referrals to patients ... minor illnesses, in order to encourage the ‘best use of primary care’. The new resources also aim to help practice staff and ICBs better communicate what to expect from a referral under the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS). In a recent primary care bulletin, NHS England said: ‘The communication materials have been designed to help practice teams and ICBs explain to patients why they are being offered a consultation ... Date: 28-03-2023 Categories: • News
Pharmacist in practice: 'There’s lots of new shared care medication coming to primary care' ... re doing, I invite the pharmacist to come in and speak to the clinicians about it. We implemented the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service and worked out a process where we can refer patients to them who have minor illnesses, such as urinary tract infections. And if there’s any reason they can’t treat the patient as their condition is more complex, for instance they’ve got kidney pain and it’s not just a simple UTI, we have a referr ... Date: 22-03-2023 Categories: • In Practice • Interviews
Meet the Pharmacy Team of the Year Award shortlist: TWNS PCN Pharmacy Team ... cross both primary and community to improve knowledge of each other’s services, aid development and strengthen ties. Successes have included increasing each practice’s use of the Community Pharmacy Consultation Services (CPCS), with one of the practices the highest in the county for utilisation. The PCN also has the highest two practice CPCS referrals in the county with three practices in the top five, and the network is the highest ... Date: 29-11-2022 Categories: • News
Pharmacy minister Will Quince visits Boots pharmacy ... P Nikie Aiken. During the visit, a pharmacist working at Boots explained to the minister the range of services the pharmacy delivers, from the new medicines service to emergency contraception and the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service. Mr Quince said in a Tweet that ‘it was great to see in action what pharmacy can do to reduce pressure on general practice and support prevention in the community.’ Malcolm Harrison, chief exec ... Date: 26-10-2022 Categories: • News
Pharmacies could play ‘key role’ in improving menopause support, say campaigners ... t from healthcare professionals. So it's important that we recognise that and that the government recognises that,’ she said. She added: ‘We need more services like the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service to assist women. It would be great to see that rolled out more widely. ‘A Pharmacy First approach, which the government has been talking about for a while now, is not just about minor ailments – we also have a key role to pl ... Date: 20-10-2022 Categories: • News
Three months on: How pharmacies are dealing with the cost-of-living crisis ... s commissioned by NHS England and Improvement have not been so fruitful for Mr Cohen. ‘The GP community pharmacy consultation service [GPCPCS] and the discharge medicine service and even all the other wonderful clinical services things that come out of the NHSE&I are potentially a fantastic way to bring in additional revenue. However, their scale of the services does not bring significant cash through,’ he explains. He is cur ... Date: 05-07-2022 Categories: • News
Pharmacies see fewer informal referrals from GPs, figures show ... r of informal referrals from GPs reduced by 15% from nearly 101,000 in 2021 to 85,000 in 2022, suggesting more patients have come to pharmacies for advice and perhaps that GPs may be using formal the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS). Figures from the latest Pharmacy Advice Audit carried out by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), found that pharmacies on average saw a 32% increase in clinical advic ... Date: 27-06-2022 Categories: • News
Have we maximised the potential of pharmacist independent prescribers? ... nts everything and sends it back to us’, he says. He argues that the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) should be offering a greater opportunity to work together as IPs. He says: ‘It would be good if more community pharmacists in the area were upskilled as IPs, especially now we’ve started with the GP CPCS.’ The system needs to change Dr Dean Eggitt, a GP and chief medical officer of Doncaster LMC, has been trai ... Date: 27-04-2022 Categories: • Analysis
NHS Gateway would improve CPCS uptake, says pharmacy leaders Pharmacy chiefs have called on the Government to pilot a radical NHS system, known as NHS Gateway, which they believe would provide a ‘better pathway’ for patients and GPs to use the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS). The new pathway was proposed in a report by UK think tank, Policy Exchange, as a way of reforming the way in which patients access their GP. The authors of the report, n ... Date: 07-04-2022 Categories: • News
Pharmacy will go ‘backwards’ if it stays on its current funding deal, says PSNC chief executive ... a new advanced service that could be incorporated into the CPCF. The new minor ailment service, known as the walk-in service, could replace the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS), which has so far proved to have been underutilised. The new service would remove the need for patients to be referred to the pharmacy via their GP, meaning patients who needed help with a minor illness could visit the pharmacy ... Date: 28-03-2022 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views
GP contract negotiations outcome 'concerning', says PSNC ... ect the very real challenges of negotiating in a post-Covid environment’. He added that PSNC supports proposals to free up capacity for general practice, such as the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), which PSNC has previously said will be given special emphasis during the negotiations on year four of the pharmacy funding contract. Funding negotiations will be ‘challenging’ The body has p ... Date: 08-03-2022 Categories: • News
Call for pharmacy teams to respond to PSNC audit ... part’ by 11 March, it said. Negotiations on the 2022/23 pharmacy funding contract in England began last week (28 February), which will include special emphasis on additional funding for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service. The negotiations on the arrangements for 2022/23 – which have started later than expected due to the volume of recent urgent Covid-19 work – will cover all service, funding and other arrangements for p ... Date: 04-03-2022 Categories: • Analysis
PSNC: Funding talks with Government begin amid ‘spiralling’ costs for pharmacies Negotiations on the 2022/23 pharmacy funding contract in England have begun, which will include special emphasis on additional funding for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), PSNC has stressed. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) announced on Friday (25 February) that it has entered negotiations with the Department of Health and Social Care ... Date: 28-02-2022 Categories: • News
Green pharmacy: should we forget about recycling for now? ... the environment. ‘Instead of visiting the doctor far away, a patient can visit their local pharmacy and get seen by a pharmacist through the community pharmacy consultation service. That reduces their carbon footprint from travelling.' She also refers to the Discharge Medicines Service as another green service. ‘If we can reduce polypharmacy that will also help the environment in a big way,' she says. ... Date: 25-02-2022 Categories: • News
Pharmacies to expect an extra 275,000 CPCS referrals due to algorithm review Community pharmacies can expect to receive more referrals from NHS 111 for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) after a review of the NHS Pathway algorithms, PSNC has said. The review, completed by integrated urgent care clinicians and pharmacists, resulted in three minor illness symptoms being added ... Date: 17-01-2022 Categories: • News
More GPs directing patients to pharmacies because of Covid, but not via CPCS GP practices are informally directing patients to community pharmacies, to help them prioritise the delivery of Covid booster vaccinations, instead of making a formal referral to Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), according to NHS England. In a primary care bulletin, sent to staff last night (20 December), NHSE requested that GPs make referrals to community pharmacies for minor illnesses through the ... Date: 21-12-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacy consultations should not be seen as a second-rate service, says past BMA lead The misconception that pharmacy consultations are inferior to GP consultations needs to be abandoned if the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is to be successful, past BMA lead Dr Richard Vautrey has said. Speaking at the All-Party Pharmacy Group’s webinar last night (1 December) on making the most of pharmacy in primary care, Dr ... Date: 02-12-2021 Categories: • News
Health secretary calls for patients to go ‘directly to pharmacies’ instead of GPs ... to see more pharmacies dealing with healthy people with minor illnesses and being referred to and treated in their community pharmacies,’ he explained. In November 2020, the community pharmacy consultation service was extended to receive referrals from GPs after it was initially launched months earlier to take referrals from 111. However, since its launch, contractors have expressed concern that the service is flawed after recei ... Date: 26-11-2021 Categories: • News
RPS calls for pharmacists to begin independent prescriber training sooner ... al College of General Practitioners last week called for the role of community pharmacists to be expanded to include the supply of certain prescription-only medicine for the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) to be successful. Meanwhile, the Government commissioned a review in September which concluded that the clinical skills of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians need to be upgraded to tackle overprescribin ... Date: 23-11-2021 Categories: • News
CPCS: Pharmacists need more scope to prescribe for minor ailments The role of community pharmacists should be expanded to include the supply of certain prescription-only medicines if the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is to be successful, health bodies have recommended. This conclusion comes alongside a list of recommendations drawn up by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and Royal College of General P ... Date: 18-11-2021 Categories: • News
GP CPCS: 'It's a great way to collaborate' ... superintendent pharmacist at Grewal Pharmacy in Beeston, Nottingham and PCN lead for Nottingham West PCN, talks to Saša Janković about the success of her local GP CPCS service. Service type: GP Community Pharmacy Consultation Service Name and location of pharmacy: Grewal Pharmacy, Beeston, Nottingham Name of superintendent pharmacist: Makinder Suri When did you start offering this service? Mid-July 2021 Why did you ... Date: 01-11-2021 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Minor ailments
Pharmacy bodies disappointed that GPs told ‘not to engage’ with NHSE access plan ... ng to engage with the plan could have on the pharmacy sector. As part of the NHS England's access plan, general practices in England have been encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter fund. Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive officer of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) told The Pharmacist it was ‘very sad’ to hear th ... Date: 21-10-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacy must be better integrated into the NHS to support self-care, say health bodies ... vice or to another appropriate expert. To maximise the benefits of self-care, the authors called for the Government to make ‘better use’ of the community pharmacy consultation service by enabling self-referral and exploring the possible referrals from other healthcare professionals such as A&E. It also suggested the implementation of self-care recommendation prescriptions to ‘support GPs ... Date: 19-10-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacies should directly approach GPs and PCNs to recruit patients for hypertension service ... s and to support GPs and their teams ahead of winter. As part of this, general practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund. Date: 18-10-2021 Categories: • News
GPs to sign up to CPCS by December to access £250m cash injection General practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund announced today (14 October), NHS England (NHSE) has said. NHSE has published a plan for improving patient access to appo ... Date: 14-10-2021 Categories: • News
RCGP supports potential for CPCS to help with Covid backlog ... esponding to a question at Health and Social Care Committee meeting today (21 September), Professor Martin Marshall CBE said that pharmacies can help GPs cope with their high workload through the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) - for which he said he understood that ‘the uptake for has not been great’. ‘The low uptake is something we are working on very closely with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), we run webin ... Date: 21-09-2021 Categories: • News
Covid: the Government's broken promises to community pharmacy ... p;for vaccination to be driven through community pharmacy sites, sharing his belief that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) should be used to take pressure off our GP colleagues, applauding our work ethic, and how as a profession, pharmacy had a bright future. There was hope: a health secretary who truly understood our role and, more importantly, ... Date: 02-07-2021 Categories: • Community • Views
Improving cancer survival: Time to take down the barriers stopping community pharmacy ... ays per week). Each week, just under 130,000 informal referrals from general practice and NHS11 are received into pharmacy. The emerging picture from the rollout of the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is now helping us to better understand its adoption challenges and possibly some design gaps. Every week pharmacies provided advice to more than 730,000 people (nearly 38 million people per year) who were seeking advi ... Date: 29-06-2021 Categories: • Community • News • Views
Hancock to ‘propose solutions’ to CPCS issues The health secretary wants to ‘propose solutions’ to issues with the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), following reports of little to no referrals in some parts of the country since its launch. Responding to a question asked by the Pharmacist at a webinar hosted by Sigma Pharmaceuticals yesterd ... Date: 24-06-2021 Categories: • News
Paying back the £370m Covid funding: ‘We would have to close all of our branches’ Community pharmacies in England are due to pay back a £370m Government loan later this year, but many contractors are concerned they will struggle to cover the costs. The funding was given to contractors in three parts between April an ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • News
'Patients need professional advice on hay fever - pharmacists should grab the opportunity' ... lable - but it’s certainly lucrative. Hay fever season is a very, very busy time of year for us and it generates a lot of income. With the new community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS), there will also be an opportunity for us to get paid for hay fever consultations, if a patient is referred to us from NHS 111. This year will be the first hay fever season since the CPCS has been implemented, so we are yet to see how effecti ... Date: 29-04-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Seasonal health
Revealed: The truth about the French pharmacy model ... e prescription-only medicines (POMs) for minor ailments such as cystitis and angina. Meanwhile, the English community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – is due to launch on 29 October. So there we have it. And – for better or for worse – the health secretary may be looking to em ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News
Government ‘absolutely determined’ to make savings in community pharmacy, says PSNC ... ill supporting more pharmacies in some places than may be necessary’, according to the contract document. However, Mr Dukes said that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – makes a strong case against consolidation. He said: ‘The more I see the detail of the CPCS and how much pot ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News
Mixed reaction to English community pharmacy contract ... xpanded clinical role and there is much to welcome in the new contract with focus areas on urgent care, prevention, medicines optimisation and safety.’ She added that the new community pharmacy consultation service, which will refer patients with minor ailments to community pharmacists rather than GPs, will be ‘game-changing for our primary care systems’. ‘It will also have a positive impact on relationships within the multidisci ... Date: 23-07-2019 Categories: • News

London ICB trialling retention scheme for practice pharmacists ... ow the trumpet for North East London, who have the highest uptake rate in London for the new Pharmacy First scheme. That’s because it builds on the community pharmacy consultation service, which we have the highest referral rate for in England,’ Ms Etheridge told Healthcare Leader. In February, Community Pharmacy North East London chief executive Shilpa Shah revealed that the area had seen 8,400 Pharmacy First consultations as a re ... Date: 24-04-2024 Categories: • In Practice • News

‘The devil’s in the detail’: What will England’s national Pharmacy First service mean locally? ... sible’, he says. In his area of South West London, the local Integrated Care Board (ICB) supports general practices and pharmacies to deliver the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) and the Hypertension Case-Finding Service, as well as funding infrastructure to support the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) alongside a DMS working group. ‘That local support becomes the foundation of the delivery of service – whether it' ... Date: 23-05-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News

GPs join calls for minor ailments scheme ... ilments schemes were in place across the country. Yet NHS England’s ban in 2018 on spending on OTC medicines led to most schemes being decommissioned as not good value for money. The Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) introduced in 2019 is often no help to those on the lowest incomes because they have to pay for the medicines so end up getting referred back to the GP, notes Dr Richard Vautrey, assistant medical secretary ... Date: 05-05-2023 Categories: • News

New materials to help explain CPCS referrals to patients ... minor illnesses, in order to encourage the ‘best use of primary care’. The new resources also aim to help practice staff and ICBs better communicate what to expect from a referral under the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS). In a recent primary care bulletin, NHS England said: ‘The communication materials have been designed to help practice teams and ICBs explain to patients why they are being offered a consultation ... Date: 28-03-2023 Categories: • News

Pharmacist in practice: 'There’s lots of new shared care medication coming to primary care' ... re doing, I invite the pharmacist to come in and speak to the clinicians about it. We implemented the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service and worked out a process where we can refer patients to them who have minor illnesses, such as urinary tract infections. And if there’s any reason they can’t treat the patient as their condition is more complex, for instance they’ve got kidney pain and it’s not just a simple UTI, we have a referr ... Date: 22-03-2023 Categories: • In Practice • Interviews

Meet the Pharmacy Team of the Year Award shortlist: TWNS PCN Pharmacy Team ... cross both primary and community to improve knowledge of each other’s services, aid development and strengthen ties. Successes have included increasing each practice’s use of the Community Pharmacy Consultation Services (CPCS), with one of the practices the highest in the county for utilisation. The PCN also has the highest two practice CPCS referrals in the county with three practices in the top five, and the network is the highest ... Date: 29-11-2022 Categories: • News

Pharmacy minister Will Quince visits Boots pharmacy ... P Nikie Aiken. During the visit, a pharmacist working at Boots explained to the minister the range of services the pharmacy delivers, from the new medicines service to emergency contraception and the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service. Mr Quince said in a Tweet that ‘it was great to see in action what pharmacy can do to reduce pressure on general practice and support prevention in the community.’ Malcolm Harrison, chief exec ... Date: 26-10-2022 Categories: • News

Pharmacies could play ‘key role’ in improving menopause support, say campaigners ... t from healthcare professionals. So it's important that we recognise that and that the government recognises that,’ she said. She added: ‘We need more services like the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service to assist women. It would be great to see that rolled out more widely. ‘A Pharmacy First approach, which the government has been talking about for a while now, is not just about minor ailments – we also have a key role to pl ... Date: 20-10-2022 Categories: • News

Three months on: How pharmacies are dealing with the cost-of-living crisis ... s commissioned by NHS England and Improvement have not been so fruitful for Mr Cohen. ‘The GP community pharmacy consultation service [GPCPCS] and the discharge medicine service and even all the other wonderful clinical services things that come out of the NHSE&I are potentially a fantastic way to bring in additional revenue. However, their scale of the services does not bring significant cash through,’ he explains. He is cur ... Date: 05-07-2022 Categories: • News

Pharmacies see fewer informal referrals from GPs, figures show ... r of informal referrals from GPs reduced by 15% from nearly 101,000 in 2021 to 85,000 in 2022, suggesting more patients have come to pharmacies for advice and perhaps that GPs may be using formal the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS). Figures from the latest Pharmacy Advice Audit carried out by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), found that pharmacies on average saw a 32% increase in clinical advic ... Date: 27-06-2022 Categories: • News

Have we maximised the potential of pharmacist independent prescribers? ... nts everything and sends it back to us’, he says. He argues that the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) should be offering a greater opportunity to work together as IPs. He says: ‘It would be good if more community pharmacists in the area were upskilled as IPs, especially now we’ve started with the GP CPCS.’ The system needs to change Dr Dean Eggitt, a GP and chief medical officer of Doncaster LMC, has been trai ... Date: 27-04-2022 Categories: • Analysis

NHS Gateway would improve CPCS uptake, says pharmacy leaders Pharmacy chiefs have called on the Government to pilot a radical NHS system, known as NHS Gateway, which they believe would provide a ‘better pathway’ for patients and GPs to use the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS). The new pathway was proposed in a report by UK think tank, Policy Exchange, as a way of reforming the way in which patients access their GP. The authors of the report, n ... Date: 07-04-2022 Categories: • News

Pharmacy will go ‘backwards’ if it stays on its current funding deal, says PSNC chief executive ... a new advanced service that could be incorporated into the CPCF. The new minor ailment service, known as the walk-in service, could replace the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS), which has so far proved to have been underutilised. The new service would remove the need for patients to be referred to the pharmacy via their GP, meaning patients who needed help with a minor illness could visit the pharmacy ... Date: 28-03-2022 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views

GP contract negotiations outcome 'concerning', says PSNC ... ect the very real challenges of negotiating in a post-Covid environment’. He added that PSNC supports proposals to free up capacity for general practice, such as the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), which PSNC has previously said will be given special emphasis during the negotiations on year four of the pharmacy funding contract. Funding negotiations will be ‘challenging’ The body has p ... Date: 08-03-2022 Categories: • News

Call for pharmacy teams to respond to PSNC audit ... part’ by 11 March, it said. Negotiations on the 2022/23 pharmacy funding contract in England began last week (28 February), which will include special emphasis on additional funding for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service. The negotiations on the arrangements for 2022/23 – which have started later than expected due to the volume of recent urgent Covid-19 work – will cover all service, funding and other arrangements for p ... Date: 04-03-2022 Categories: • Analysis

PSNC: Funding talks with Government begin amid ‘spiralling’ costs for pharmacies Negotiations on the 2022/23 pharmacy funding contract in England have begun, which will include special emphasis on additional funding for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), PSNC has stressed. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) announced on Friday (25 February) that it has entered negotiations with the Department of Health and Social Care ... Date: 28-02-2022 Categories: • News

Green pharmacy: should we forget about recycling for now? ... the environment. ‘Instead of visiting the doctor far away, a patient can visit their local pharmacy and get seen by a pharmacist through the community pharmacy consultation service. That reduces their carbon footprint from travelling.' She also refers to the Discharge Medicines Service as another green service. ‘If we can reduce polypharmacy that will also help the environment in a big way,' she says. ... Date: 25-02-2022 Categories: • News

Pharmacies to expect an extra 275,000 CPCS referrals due to algorithm review Community pharmacies can expect to receive more referrals from NHS 111 for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) after a review of the NHS Pathway algorithms, PSNC has said. The review, completed by integrated urgent care clinicians and pharmacists, resulted in three minor illness symptoms being added ... Date: 17-01-2022 Categories: • News

More GPs directing patients to pharmacies because of Covid, but not via CPCS GP practices are informally directing patients to community pharmacies, to help them prioritise the delivery of Covid booster vaccinations, instead of making a formal referral to Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), according to NHS England. In a primary care bulletin, sent to staff last night (20 December), NHSE requested that GPs make referrals to community pharmacies for minor illnesses through the ... Date: 21-12-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacy consultations should not be seen as a second-rate service, says past BMA lead The misconception that pharmacy consultations are inferior to GP consultations needs to be abandoned if the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is to be successful, past BMA lead Dr Richard Vautrey has said. Speaking at the All-Party Pharmacy Group’s webinar last night (1 December) on making the most of pharmacy in primary care, Dr ... Date: 02-12-2021 Categories: • News

Health secretary calls for patients to go ‘directly to pharmacies’ instead of GPs ... to see more pharmacies dealing with healthy people with minor illnesses and being referred to and treated in their community pharmacies,’ he explained. In November 2020, the community pharmacy consultation service was extended to receive referrals from GPs after it was initially launched months earlier to take referrals from 111. However, since its launch, contractors have expressed concern that the service is flawed after recei ... Date: 26-11-2021 Categories: • News

RPS calls for pharmacists to begin independent prescriber training sooner ... al College of General Practitioners last week called for the role of community pharmacists to be expanded to include the supply of certain prescription-only medicine for the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) to be successful. Meanwhile, the Government commissioned a review in September which concluded that the clinical skills of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians need to be upgraded to tackle overprescribin ... Date: 23-11-2021 Categories: • News

CPCS: Pharmacists need more scope to prescribe for minor ailments The role of community pharmacists should be expanded to include the supply of certain prescription-only medicines if the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is to be successful, health bodies have recommended. This conclusion comes alongside a list of recommendations drawn up by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and Royal College of General P ... Date: 18-11-2021 Categories: • News

GP CPCS: 'It's a great way to collaborate' ... superintendent pharmacist at Grewal Pharmacy in Beeston, Nottingham and PCN lead for Nottingham West PCN, talks to Saša Janković about the success of her local GP CPCS service. Service type: GP Community Pharmacy Consultation Service Name and location of pharmacy: Grewal Pharmacy, Beeston, Nottingham Name of superintendent pharmacist: Makinder Suri When did you start offering this service? Mid-July 2021 Why did you ... Date: 01-11-2021 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Minor ailments

Pharmacy bodies disappointed that GPs told ‘not to engage’ with NHSE access plan ... ng to engage with the plan could have on the pharmacy sector. As part of the NHS England's access plan, general practices in England have been encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter fund. Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive officer of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) told The Pharmacist it was ‘very sad’ to hear th ... Date: 21-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacy must be better integrated into the NHS to support self-care, say health bodies ... vice or to another appropriate expert. To maximise the benefits of self-care, the authors called for the Government to make ‘better use’ of the community pharmacy consultation service by enabling self-referral and exploring the possible referrals from other healthcare professionals such as A&E. It also suggested the implementation of self-care recommendation prescriptions to ‘support GPs ... Date: 19-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacies should directly approach GPs and PCNs to recruit patients for hypertension service ... s and to support GPs and their teams ahead of winter. As part of this, general practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund. Date: 18-10-2021 Categories: • News

GPs to sign up to CPCS by December to access £250m cash injection General practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund announced today (14 October), NHS England (NHSE) has said. NHSE has published a plan for improving patient access to appo ... Date: 14-10-2021 Categories: • News

RCGP supports potential for CPCS to help with Covid backlog ... esponding to a question at Health and Social Care Committee meeting today (21 September), Professor Martin Marshall CBE said that pharmacies can help GPs cope with their high workload through the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) - for which he said he understood that ‘the uptake for has not been great’. ‘The low uptake is something we are working on very closely with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), we run webin ... Date: 21-09-2021 Categories: • News

Covid: the Government's broken promises to community pharmacy ... p;for vaccination to be driven through community pharmacy sites, sharing his belief that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) should be used to take pressure off our GP colleagues, applauding our work ethic, and how as a profession, pharmacy had a bright future. There was hope: a health secretary who truly understood our role and, more importantly, ... Date: 02-07-2021 Categories: • Community • Views

Improving cancer survival: Time to take down the barriers stopping community pharmacy ... ays per week). Each week, just under 130,000 informal referrals from general practice and NHS11 are received into pharmacy. The emerging picture from the rollout of the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is now helping us to better understand its adoption challenges and possibly some design gaps. Every week pharmacies provided advice to more than 730,000 people (nearly 38 million people per year) who were seeking advi ... Date: 29-06-2021 Categories: • Community • News • Views

Hancock to ‘propose solutions’ to CPCS issues The health secretary wants to ‘propose solutions’ to issues with the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), following reports of little to no referrals in some parts of the country since its launch. Responding to a question asked by the Pharmacist at a webinar hosted by Sigma Pharmaceuticals yesterd ... Date: 24-06-2021 Categories: • News

Paying back the £370m Covid funding: ‘We would have to close all of our branches’ Community pharmacies in England are due to pay back a £370m Government loan later this year, but many contractors are concerned they will struggle to cover the costs. The funding was given to contractors in three parts between April an ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • News

'Patients need professional advice on hay fever - pharmacists should grab the opportunity' ... lable - but it’s certainly lucrative. Hay fever season is a very, very busy time of year for us and it generates a lot of income. With the new community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS), there will also be an opportunity for us to get paid for hay fever consultations, if a patient is referred to us from NHS 111. This year will be the first hay fever season since the CPCS has been implemented, so we are yet to see how effecti ... Date: 29-04-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Seasonal health

Revealed: The truth about the French pharmacy model ... e prescription-only medicines (POMs) for minor ailments such as cystitis and angina. Meanwhile, the English community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – is due to launch on 29 October. So there we have it. And – for better or for worse – the health secretary may be looking to em ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News

Government ‘absolutely determined’ to make savings in community pharmacy, says PSNC ... ill supporting more pharmacies in some places than may be necessary’, according to the contract document. However, Mr Dukes said that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – makes a strong case against consolidation. He said: ‘The more I see the detail of the CPCS and how much pot ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News

Mixed reaction to English community pharmacy contract ... xpanded clinical role and there is much to welcome in the new contract with focus areas on urgent care, prevention, medicines optimisation and safety.’ She added that the new community pharmacy consultation service, which will refer patients with minor ailments to community pharmacists rather than GPs, will be ‘game-changing for our primary care systems’. ‘It will also have a positive impact on relationships within the multidisci ... Date: 23-07-2019 Categories: • News

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