Community Pharmacy Devon Weekly Dose

Thursday 13th March 2025

Welcome to your weekly injection of local and national pharmacy news. As always, if you have any feedback or comments, please contact us by email at admin@cpdevon.org.uk.

The Recognition of Excellence (ROE) Awards 2025

There isn't long left to receive nominations and entries for this year’s Recognition of Excellence Awards! This year, there are nine awards categories. You may enter into as many of the individual categories as you wish and you can also nominate other members of your pharmacy support team too. What’s more, if you’re proud of your whole team, you can nominate them for the Pharmacy Team of the Year Award.

You can enter here, entries close on the 4th April 2025.

Contraception/Sexual Health Update Event @ SHiP

Please note that a sexual health training session will be held for pharmacists on the 20th May to discuss emergency hormonal contraception (EHC), chlamydia Screening, progesterone only pill (POP), combined pill (COC) and talking with young people by Devon Sexual Health and Sexual Health in Plymouth teams.

Date and time: Tue, 20 May 2025 19:00 - 21:00 BST

Location: SHiP @ University Hospital Plymouth - Entrance 1, Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8DH.

You can book a place here. Please contact rduh.cso@nhs.net if you need any further information or have any issues booking a place.

If you are unable to attend a session in person a recording of the presentation will be available after the event and uploaded to the Community Pharmacy Devon Website.

Please follow this link for more information : https://yourship.uk/our-clinics/derriford-hospital/

Medicines Information contacts

Please see all Medicines Information contact details here.

The Perceptions of Community Pharmacy Team Members in the Provision of Care to Cancer Patients: a Multi-National Study

Jackie Lewis, who many of you will know is a pharmacy owner in Exmouth with a special interest in cancer care and oncology, is running a survey for the whole pharmacy team to determine what training you would like to help with cancer care in your pharmacies. She has said that would be much appreciated if you could please take a few minutes to share your thoughts by clicking here.

Good News Story!

We have heard that the team at Boots in Brixham went "above and beyond expectations" when a patient had forgotten to order her vital medication in time. She had gone into the pharmacy to explain the situation and they were extremely helpful in contacting her surgery and obtaining her medications sooner. The prescription was processed promptly and a text sent to the patient to let them know their medication was ready to collect. The team also offered to check the patient's blood pressure and queried whether there was anything else that the patient needed.

The patient was extremely grateful to the whole team for the outstanding service she received and has since set reminders on her phone to prevent the same situation happening again!

Positive News Stories

If you have a positive news story to share with us please send it to admin@cpdevon.org.uk and it will be featured in an upcoming edition of the review. If featured, you will also win a surprise gift for you and your team up to the value of £25!

COMMUNITY PHARMACY DEVON SECRETARIAT TEAM

Click the name you need to email them directly: