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GPs made fewer Pharmacy First minor illness referrals in August, data suggests The lowest monthly total of minor illness referrals yet have been recorded for August, according to latest Pharmacy First data for England. Some 87,405 claims for minor illness consultations in August ... Date: 02-12-2024 Categories: • News • Pharmacy First
All parts of Pharmacy First should be open to walk-ins, says CPE ... ices, said that the negotiator had 'always believed the minor illness and urgent supply of medicines elements of the Pharmacy First service, and previously when they were the constituent parts of the CPCS [Community Pharmacist Consultation Service], should be accessible by patients walking into pharmacies, rather than patients needing a referral from NHS 111, a general practice or other healthcare org ... Date: 18-09-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Roundtable: Six months of Pharmacy First ... ections (UTIs) in women aged between 16 and 64. The service also encompasses referrals from GPs and 111 for other minor ailments, previously known as the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), as well as referrals for urgent repeat medicines supply. Local relationships between general practice and community pharmacies have been identified as ‘key’ to the success of the service, as was ... Date: 17-09-2024 Categories: • Analysis • Community • Pharmacy First
Claim Pharmacy First for any minor ailment GP referral, says CPE ... d the LPCs reminded pharmacies that GPs can refer patients for two strands of the service: Minor illness consultations (as was the case in the previous Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS); and Consultations that fit the criteria for the seven clinical pathways: earache in 1-17 year olds, impetigo, infected insect bites, shingles in adults, sinusitis in over 12s, sore throat in ove ... Date: 19-06-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
MPs seek to hold government to account on Pharmacy First digital A parliamentary committee has asked the government to set out what progress has been made on rolling out ‘the full digital product’ for the documentation of Pharmacy First consultations. In its report ... Date: 31-05-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News • Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First: Top tips for diagnosing and treating acute sinusitis ... my experience, a lack of cohesion and awareness of each other’s systems has been a factor in patchy delivery of previous pharmacy delivered schemes such as the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS). We solved significant CPCS issues in our neighbourhood by setting aside time to build bridges between GP and pharmacy and talk about logistics and the patient journey. We agreed it was imperativ ... Date: 24-05-2024 Categories: • Pharmacy First • Vaccinations and infections
Pharmacy First: No plans to replace referral requirement with walk-in approach ... oving the need for a GP referral for minor illnesses and urgent repeat medicine supplies. These two elements of the Pharmacy First service that build on the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) currently require a referral in order for a pharmacy to receive a payment under the scheme. A third part of the service does enable walk-ins for seven common conditions, however concerns have bee ... Date: 17-05-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Just one pharmacy IT supplier has enabled integrated Pharmacy First GP updates Just one IT provider is believed to have rolled out updates to allow pharmacies to send structured records of Pharmacy First consultations to GP practices, The Pharmacist understands. At the time of wr ... Date: 26-04-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First payment submission deadline extended again amid IT issues ... e' the referral process. But in order to make the 31 January launch date, the community pharmacy negotiator 'agreed a minimum viable product' using existing Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) referral routes, Ms Morrison recently told a parliamentary inquiry. And the promised updates could still be weeks away, chief pharmaceutical officer for England David Webb suggested recently. Date: 15-03-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
CPE leader calls out 'significant problems’ with community pharmacy IT ... e' the referral process. But in order to make the 31 January launch date, the community pharmacy negotiator 'agreed a minimum viable product' using existing Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) referral routes, Ms Morrison recently told a parliamentary inquiry. And the promised updates could still be weeks away, chief pharmaceutical officer for England David Webb suggested recently. Date: 14-03-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
‘Discrepancies’ in figures for Pharmacy First consultations ... e some pharmacy contractors experienced issues accessing Pharmacy First in the MYS portal on Friday 1 March 2024,’ the spokesperson said. ‘Some pharmacies had submitted their declaration using the CPCS tab in MYS in the early hours of Friday 1 March, prior to the Pharmacy First claim window being launched at 8am. ‘We manually amended these records on the same day to allow users to make declarati ... Date: 11-03-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
‘Not possible’ to give advance notice of PharmOutcomes updates, says provider ... e' the referral process. But in order to make the 31 January launch date, the community pharmacy negotiator 'agreed a minimum viable product' using existing Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) referral routes, Community Pharmacy England chief executive Janet Morrison recently told a parliamentary inquiry. And chief pharmaceutical officer for England David Webb revealed last week that t ... Date: 07-03-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
NHSE: Pharmacists are ‘managing antimicrobials appropriately’ ... be seen by someone of a higher acuity’. ‘That's acceptable, but having those processes in place really will help,’ she said. And she added that under the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS), only around one in 10 patients were referred back from community pharmacy to general practice. Ms Dawda also said that NHSE was ‘absolutely overwhelmed with the support from the sector’, with ov ... Date: 04-03-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
More than 8,000 Pharmacy First consultations in North East London so far ... He was astounded at what response community pharmacies can offer and what they can do. And he said: "if there was one thing that we could do, what would it be?" ‘So we explained the background and CPCS [the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme]. The issue that we were having with CPCS is people were coming in community pharmacies in the areas that we live in [which are] quite deprived, so they co ... Date: 29-02-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First GP systems ‘getting ready to go live’ ... service launched on 31 January, community pharmacies have been able to send details of patient consultations to GPs via existing processes previously used for Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) appointments. This would usually involve information being emailed to the GP where it would be manually added to the patient record. While the Pharmacy First funding included an allocation to ... Date: 21-02-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Nick Kaye: LPCs have a responsibility to ‘demystify’ Pharmacy First ... actices and community pharmacy in her area helped to build an understanding and awareness of the challenges both sectors face. ‘The ongoing engagement with localities and practices to implement GP CPCS [the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme] and other advanced services has helped to develop open communication channels to resolve challenges through better communication,’ she said. While she ... Date: 29-01-2024 Categories: • Analysis • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First success relies on pharmacy and general practice ‘relationships’ ... 11, urgent treatment centres, integrated urgent care clinical assessment services, emergency departments and 999. Pharmacy First in England will replace the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS). While general practices will initially receive consultation information from community pharmacies via the existing NHSMail process, a new GP Connect system will be rolled out throughout February ... Date: 26-01-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News • Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First will launch as planned on 31 January, NHSE confirms ... amming interface (API)'. 'The systems will also send post-event messages to the patient’s general practice, via NHSmail, as is currently the case for the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS),' CPE added in an update posted today. But the ‘one click’ process that is expected to enable community pharmacies to share information in a structured way with general practice patient will not ... Date: 25-01-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First: Are the floodgates about to open? ... and five planes trying to land,’ he tells The Pharmacist. His pharmacy is sandwiched between two medical centres, and already takes GP referrals through the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) in addition to running a private clinic, independent prescribing, travel vaccinations, the discharge medicines service, hypertension screening, chlamydia screening and treatments. He says his sol ... Date: 24-01-2024 Categories: • Analysis • Community • News • Pharmacy First
NHSE: Sign up to Pharmacy First IT by tomorrow in time for launch ... launch. The Pharmacist understands that NHSE will share more information with community pharmacies next week. Existing NHS-assured IT support for the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) is being updated to incorporate the new elements of Pharmacy First, as well as additional IT functionality developed to support the service. CPE said the four CPCS IT system providers have all co ... Date: 18-01-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Pharmacist in practice: tackling winter infections and improving AMS ... cist would be able to ring patients on the same day in many cases, and the team found that ‘a lot of the queries didn't need to come in.’ Instead, they used the community pharmacy referral scheme (CPCS) to refer to the patient to a local community pharmacy where they would be able to get the treatment and advice that they needed. If the pharmacist was not able to deal with the patient on the tel ... Date: 13-12-2023 Categories: • In Practice • Interviews • News
Training needs for new pharmacy services ‘will vary’ ... ssessment of their own learning needs. And he noted that the self-assessment tool from the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) relating to the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) was being updated to relate to Pharmacy First. He recognised that learning needs were likely to ‘vary quite a lot’, ‘depending on how up to date people are’ and whether they had done any addition ... Date: 17-11-2023 Categories: • Community • News
Community pharmacists to gain greater access to GP record from January ... mplicated urinary tract infections in women. The organisations said that they are working with all pharmacy IT system suppliers currently assured for the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), blood pressure check service and Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) to update their clinical systems to support the launch of the scheme. According to a letter sent to pharmacy contractors tod ... Date: 16-11-2023 Categories: • Community • News
‘Too much variation’ in community pharmacy services ... a Hussain, shared a positive experience of working with community pharmacy colleagues. She said that ‘very quickly’ after beginning to refer patients to the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS), community pharmacy teams were able to see around 15 patients – or ‘one clinic’s worth’ – of patients who would otherwise have seen a GP each week. To reassure patients, the practice said if the ... Date: 02-11-2023 Categories: • News
Get consultation room and training ready ahead of Pharmacy First, advises NPA ... th the community pharmacist consultation scheme Jay Badenhorst, vice-chair of the NPA, suggested that the common conditions scheme built upon the existing community pharmacist consultation scheme (CPCS) and suggested that superintendent pharmacists begin to implement with CPCS if they hadn’t already. CPCS would help embed some of the processes and insurance that would be needed for the common co ... Date: 19-10-2023 Categories: • Community • News
Pharmacies must be ‘part of the primary care offer’, says Labour ... Community Pharmacy England (CPE) on its primary care recovery plan proposals, ‘with the aim of starting Pharmacy First this winter’. He also highlighted the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS), the New Medicines Service (NMS), blood pressure checks through community pharmacies, the Pharmacy Contraception Service and the role pharmacies play in delivering vaccinations. Mr O’Brien also d ... Date: 26-09-2023 Categories: • Community • News
Hypertension service must use approved IT system from this week ... the MYS payment portal, the assured systems will create a MYS claim automatically using an API (Application Programming Interface), as already happens for the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) and the flu vaccination service. Similar changes are being planned for the New Medicine Service later this year and the Smoking Cessation Service early next year, according to Community Pharmacy ... Date: 29-08-2023 Categories: • News
More POM to P switches could save NHS £1.4bn a year ... ow acuity conditions,’ she said. And a recent expert report assessing the government’s progress on community pharmacy in England raised concerns about the Community Pharmacist Consultation Scheme (CPCS), saying that people who are exempt from prescription charges ‘may not benefit from a service that refers them directly to community pharmacy if they then need to purchase medication over-the-counter ... Date: 26-07-2023 Categories: • News
Analysis: Has the government delivered on its pharmacy commitments? ... pharmacies, particularly in deprived areas’. The panel also noted that the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) had assumed efficiencies in dispensing, which had not yet taken place. CPCS: Good The Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) has been delivered, and was enabling community pharmacists to support more people with minor health conditions, as well as freeing up cap ... Date: 25-07-2023 Categories: • Analysis • Community • News
Government progress on pharmacy ‘requires improvement’ ... nable the clinical integration of pharmacists was found to be ‘inadequate’ across all criteria. However, the panel rated the government’s progress on the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) with referrals from NHS 111, GPs and A&E, as ‘good’. Professor Dame Jane Dacre, who chaired the expert panel, said: ‘Pharmacy plays a key role in the delivery of care so it’s disappointing th ... Date: 25-07-2023 Categories: • News
‘The devil’s in the detail’: What will England’s national Pharmacy First service mean locally? ... come impossible’, 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 founda ... Date: 23-05-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News
Government announces medicine VAT changes and reimbursement proposals ... ng tier 2, which would see community pharmacists initiate oral contraception, on 4 October 2023. September’s agreement also included the expansion of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) to include referrals from urgent and emergency care settings, which will come into force from Monday 15 May 2023. And NHSE and DHSC said that they would update contractors ‘in due course’ on the ... Date: 15-05-2023 Categories: • News
GPs join calls for minor ailments scheme ... ce 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 s ... Date: 05-05-2023 Categories: • News
'Utterly devastating’: Cost-of-living crisis hits OTC medicines access ... to get a prescription so that they would be eligible to receive the items for free on the NHS. Sending patients, who had come through to the pharmacy via a Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) referral, back to the GP and then having them come back to the pharmacy with a prescription to collect the item, led to increased workload for everyone, said Ms Shah. She also felt it caused ‘rigmar ... Date: 02-05-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News
CPCS expanded to include A&E referrals The Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) will be expanded to include referrals from emergency departments and urgent treatment centres from 15 May 2023. This comes alongside the announcement of controversial regulative easements around ... Date: 28-04-2023 Categories: • News
Just 4% of pharmacies sign up for contraception service in two days ... g the current contract’. 100% agree but I would go further and ask all contractors to consider the other non funded services that have been added during the current contract. If no pharmacy offers CPCS then the GPs cannot hit their referral targets. Ditto DMS and HCFS. — Doug? (@honieddruggist) April 25, 2023 Date: 27-04-2023 Categories: • News
Pharmacist in practice: Having an ‘interface pharmacist’ would support integration ... independent prescribers in a few years’ time, do you think changes need to be made? I think this is the big question mark. I do the occasional locum shift for community pharmacy. We sometimes get CPCS referrals, and of course there are an increasing number of pharmacists becoming prescribers in the community. The concern I have is around access to patient records. If you don't have that bigger ... Date: 12-04-2023 Categories: • In Practice • Interviews
New materials to help explain CPCS referrals to patients ... rage 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
Pharmacy-led scheme decommissioned after running for decades ... ey will get a significant increase in footfall in patients as a result.’ While there is no direct replacement service, NHS England has suggested that the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) can be used as an alternative. However, CPCS is a consultation service whereas Pharmacy First is primarily about supply of over-the-counter medicines. Patients cannot access CPCS by walking in ... Date: 20-03-2023 Categories: • News
GP’s swipe at pharmacists’ ‘quackery’ prompts call to work together ... GP practices to pharmacies for minor ailments. His experience, said the writer, is that patients were ‘distinctly unimpressed and unconvinced by pharmacy Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) advice and so ended up back with me anyway, albeit via the 111, pharmacy, GP reception carousel.’ The article continued: ‘I’m guessing the reason they used to be happy to dispense gratis, minor a ... Date: 10-03-2023 Categories: • News
NHSE must do more to support community pharmacy, says NAPC president ... ist that his tweet was ‘deliberately provocative’, explaining that currently the only mechanism for pharmacists to be paid for patient consultations is via the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS). If pharmacists refer patients to a GP or NHS 111, then those services can refer them to community pharmacy, ‘then pharmacy gets paid and therefore there will be an income which then helps to dri ... Date: 28-02-2023 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views
Pharmacist in practice: 'Suddenly pharmacists are being recognised' ... ’ve got really good links with our closest pharmacies, and I’ve been really trying to encourage communication between GP practices and community pharmacies. We’ve done loads of work this month on the CPCS scheme, trying to understand where it’s going wrong and why the uptake isn’t as good as it should be, because it’s a brilliant service. We’ve gone to every single pharmacy in the area to try and unde ... Date: 15-02-2023 Categories: • Interviews
One third of pharmacists think CPCS is not fit for purpose, half blame GPs More than a third of pharmacists (34%) think that the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) is not fit for purpose. Of those, nearly half (46%) blamed GPs, who they believe are not using the service to refer patients to community pharmacy, according to a survey conducted on behalf of dr ... Date: 14-02-2023 Categories: • News
Only half of public comfortable being asked about weight in a pharmacy, survey finds ... n that which the existing workforce can deliver’, Mr Harrison said. He also urged the NHS ‘reconsider the scale of their ambition, with regard to the future of community pharmacy’. ‘On average [CPCS figures] means one patient is referred to each pharmacy every two weeks. That is not a sustainable service,’ he said. ‘It is evident that patients are happy to use their local pharmacy to access t ... Date: 03-01-2023 Categories: • News
A quarter of adults in England are obese, public health survey finds A quarter (26%) of adults in England were obese in 2021, with rates higher among men, older people, and those in more deprived areas, a report from the Health Survey for England has shown. The survey o ... Date: 15-12-2022 Categories: • News
After years of talk, why is there still no sign of Pharmacy First in England? ... lthcare professionals, suitably trained with open access to help reduce pressure off primary care colleagues – yet we are still debating and discussing the merits of a national rollout. Sure, we have CPCS and GP CPCS, but both these services rely on referrals from other organisations (NHS111, OOH and general practice). In over four years since CPCS has been launched, the uptake is patchy at best and n ... Date: 12-12-2022 Categories: • Views
Meet the Pharmacy Team of the Year Award shortlist: TWNS PCN Pharmacy Team ... ommunity 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 ... Date: 29-11-2022 Categories: • News
Cornwall’s Pharmacy First scheme saves 400 GP appointments a month, data shows Cornwall Local Pharmacy Committee (LPC) leaders have highlighted the success of its locally commissioned Pharmacy First service, as health and social care secretary Steve Barclay looks at creating a natio ... Date: 28-11-2022 Categories: • News
Bristol mayor praises community pharmacy services ... unded by the NHS to provide clinical consultations and give advice to patients on a walk-in basis, an approach known as ‘Pharmacy First’. In England, the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) is a mechanism to pay community pharmacists to deliver consultations following a referral from a GP or NHS 111. However, use of the CPCS service is not expanding as rapidly as many would like, and q ... Date: 08-11-2022 Categories: • News
Former pharmacy minister Steve Brine elected as Health and Social Care Committee chair Pharmacy leaders have welcomed the appointment of former pharmacy minister Steve Brine as the new chair of the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee. His appointment follows the departure o ... Date: 03-11-2022 Categories: • News

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