Community Pharmacy Devon Weekly Dose CPCF Contract Edition

Thursday 17th April 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.

Community Pharmacy England Presents the New CPCF Arrangements

Funding and other arrangements for community pharmacies for 2024/25 and 2025/26 have been finalised, with community pharmacy receiving the largest uplift in funding across the whole of the NHS.

A recorded on-demand version of the presentation is now available here.

Note all the resources to do with the CPCF for 2024/25 and 2025/26 have now been consolidated into a single page on the CPE website, for ease of finding content. See: https://cpe.org.uk/cpcf

Over 1000 people registered for the webinars and this meant that answers to all the individual questions was not possible, however they have been reviewed and put together various FAQs on the most common topics, see:

· General funding FAQs
· Summary of regulatory changes
· Core opening hours information
· NMS regulatory FAQs
· DSP regulatory FAQs
· Changes to NMS fees

A recording of the NHS England CPCF Contract Webinar can be found here.

Manage Your Service (MYS)

Please be aware that if you haven't yet made the first steps towards PQS, you will need to sign up for Pharmacy First and contraception to unlock the gateway. You can do this through Manage Your Service (MYS).

PQS and Pharmacy First Webinars

We will be holding webinars on both PQS and Pharmacy First very soon. As soon as we have information on dates and times it will be shared here, so watch this space!

Bowel Cancer Screening Awareness Campaign South West 2025

Bowel cancer is the UK’s fourth most common cancer but if diagnosed at the earliest stages, bowel cancer is treatable and curable. For cancer screening to be effective, it is important that uptake is high. There is currently a bowel cancer screening awareness campaign running in the Southwest.

The bowel cancer screening awareness campaign aims to raise awareness that the eligible age has reduced from 60 to 50 years old. The campaign commenced on 17 March 2025 and will run through to the end of April 2025 to align with Bowel Cancer Awareness Month (April 2025).

CPPE Training - Sign Up or Miss Out!

CPPE is your fully-funded training resource for Pharmacy Professionals to assist you with the delivery of NHS services such as EHC.

It's come to our attention that a few of you may be missing out on important local and national events, workshops and webinars by not ticking a couple of boxes!

Once logged into your CPPE go to the "Profile Area" and under "Email Preferences" click to receive national events and also local events. This will ensure that you receive information about all the latest training opportunities, including in-person events and online webinars, straight to your inbox.

Also, please ensure that your email address on your CPPE profile is up to date!

Pharmacy First FAQs

Please note that the most common myths and questions about Pharmacy First have been put into a factsheet on our website that you can view here.

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

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