Thursday 10th July 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.

Don't forget to book your place for the Community Pharmacy Devon Conference, places are filling fast!

Gain valuable insights into the evolving landscape of the NHS and what these changes mean for community pharmacy. Enjoy engaging presentations from NHS teams who will share tips and guidance on how to maximise service delivery to drive business success, and celebrate excellence at our awards ceremony. It’s a perfect opportunity to expand your knowledge and empower your pharmacy for the future.

There will be a few breakout sessions throughout the day giving you the option to choose which ones to attend. These sessions will be categorised under three separate headings: Change Management, Clinical and Resilience. If you choose to attend a Change Management session we have guest speakers giving talks on solutions to pharmacy overload, independent prescribing and pathfinder. More about the other sessions next week.

You can book your place here.

Community pharmacies participating in the autumn/winter Covid-19 and flu vaccination campaigns will soon need to select a Point of Care (PoC) supplier. To support this, pharmacy colleagues are invited to register for webinars where suppliers will explain their systems:

·         28 July, 3pm – 3:45pm. Positive Solutions Webinar

·         29 July, 3pm – 3:45pm. Cegedim Webinar

·         30 July, 3pm – 3:45pm. Sonar Webinar

·         31 July, 3pm – 3:45pm. Optum Webinar

·         01 Aug, 3pm – 3:45pm. RAVs Webinar

Recordings will be uploaded to FutureNHS. Supplier selection for assured sites will open from 7 August. Please share with relevant teams to support informed supplier selection.

Contact: england.poconboarding@nhs.net for any registration problems. 

⚡A reminder that places are running out fast for the latest training webinar delivered by Tom Kallis!

Are you looking to provide Pharmacy First services and want to make sure your consultation notes are up to standard to be included in a patient’s primary care health record? Want to develop your consultation skills to ensure you deliver structured pharmacy first interventions and get the history from patients you need? Then our upcoming Community Pharmacy Devon training evening is for you! Over the course of the evening we will ensure you have the tools to make high quality records of your pharmacy first consultations and discuss:

• The clinical interview and consultation structures
• Taking a comprehensive history
• Documentation requirements
• How to make excellent notes for addition to a patient’s medical record as part of Pharmacy First.

Please note this is an online event. To book a place, please click here.

VirtualOutcomes has published a new module to support pharmacies to engage with the ABPM part of the Hypertension Case Finding Service.

The challenges some pharmacies are facing have been recognised so the module is designed to give people top tips to maximise the service.  This is also vital given the upcoming bundling requirements with Pharmacy First from October. Currently the VirtualOutcomes modules are free to all pharmacy teams in Devon as Community Pharmacy Devon funds this resource.

View the flyer here.

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