BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LOCAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMMITTEE
Newsletter
Edition 9 February2014
Bucks LPC Contact: Wendy Illsley, Chief Officer 01296 426885
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LOCAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMMITTEE
Newsletter
Edition 9 February2014
No Smoking Day – March 12th
Do make sure you use the opportunity of national No Smoking Day to publicise your pharmacy’s Stop Smoking Services and encourage your patients to quit. This year it is March 12th. The theme this year is V for Victory (you can have a closer look at )You may prefer not to use this particular theme, as some of the connotations may not resonate well with our target audience. We do not need to use the NSD branded materials as the focus locally will be on driving smokers into our stop smoking services. It may therefore be better to order your resources from the local services and also the national resource website where you will find a whole host of free resources .
Easter Opening Hours
If your opening hours will change don’t forget to update your website, and NHS Choices.
EPS2 – Update
Please note that the following Buckinghamshire practices have agreed to go live with EPSR2 on the dates shown below.
The practices have all been informed that they should check that their smartcards are valid so may be in touch with the RA team in due course.
They have also all agreed to hold process workshops on the dates show below, and to invite their local pharmacies to these events.
Code / Practice Name / Town / Post Code / Workshop / Go-liveK82037 / Watermeadow / Chesham / HP 5 1ET / 19/03/14 / 01/04/14
K82618 / Prospect House / Great Missenden / HP16 0BG / 03/04/14 / 01/05/14
K82055 / Denham Medical / Denham / UB 9 5LB / 29/04/14 / 13/05/14
K82058 / Gladstone / Chesham / HP 5 3EZ / 24/04/14 / 14/05/14
National Patient Safety Alerting System launched
NHS England has launched a newNational Patient Safety Alerting System (NPSAS), which it will use to ensure warnings of potential risks to the safety of patients can be swiftly developed and disseminated to every corner of the NHS.
The system takes a three-stage alerting approach based on those used in other high-risk industries, such as aviation.
Also, providers of NHS care will be made more accountable for fulfilling the requirements of an alert through the monthly publishing of data on the NHS England website that will name any trust who fails to declare they have complied with any of the three stages of alert within the set timeframes.
For further information about the new three-stage system, please visitpsnc.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alerting-system-launched
Have you completed your IG Toolkit for 2013/14 yet?
This year's submission deadline is 31 March 2014.
Guidance oninformation governanceincluding templates tohelp you tomeet each requirement can be found atpsnc.org.uk/ig
Bucks LPC Contact: Wendy Illsley, Chief Officer 01296 426885
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LOCAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMMITTEE
Newsletter
Edition 9 February2014
Latest issueof Hints &Tips out
We would like to draw your attention to the latest edition (Issue 14) of NHS Prescription Services' quarterly newsletterfor dispensing contractors as it contains some really useful information and advice regarding the submission of prescriptions for payment.
All published editions of theHints & Tips newsletter, which isproduced every quarter with one versionfor dispensing contractors and one for information service users, can be found at
NHS England’s Call to Action
The Call to Action Campaign closes on 18th March. There is still time to let NHS England know your views on the future of community pharmacy. You can contact the LPC to share your views, or why not complete the online questionnaire:
Or tweet your views using the hashtag #CTAPharm
Bucks LPC Contact: Wendy Illsley, Chief Officer 01296 426885