Community Pharmacy Devon Weekly Dose 💊

Thursday 31st 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.

Deadline Tracker

Please view the latest edition of the deadline tracker here.

Resilience in Action: Community Pharmacy Devon Conference 2025

Our very first Community Pharmacy Conference, Resilience in Action, is drawing nearer. The conference is designed to specifically support pharmacists and pharmacy technicians navigating the evolving landscape of the NHS. You will have the chance to choose from a variety of breakout sessions through the day; Change Management, Clinical and Resilience.

Spotlight on Hypertension

We're delighted that Vicky Webb, Non Medical Prescribing Lead at University Hospital Derriford, and Becky Duke, Community Pharmacist and IP, will be running a workshop on Hypertension. Vicky and Becky will be discussing focused history taking, guidelines and medicines optimisation as well as the Hypertension Case Finding Service along with NMS tips for hypertension.

The whole day will be providing a platform for sharing experiences, exchanging ideas and exploring new opportunities together and catching up with colleagues that you may not have seen for a while.

There will be a number of sponsors, pharma companies, system suppliers and local educational institutions, potentially with goody bags too!

🏆 During the afternoon we will take time to celebrate your hard work and innovation at our awards, ceremony - recognising excellence across the sector. There is still time to submit a nomination, details here.

For more information about the categories take a look at our website.

Community Pharmacy Flu Vaccination Service for Children aged 2-3 Years

This winter Community Pharmacies will be able to take part in a trial of a new Community Pharmacy flu vaccination service for children aged 2–3 years. This trial is to support GP surgery colleagues to increase uptake.

Following agreement between Community Pharmacy England and NHS England, the new Advanced service aims to improve vaccine uptake in this age group. Most eligible children will require the Live attenuated influenza vaccine nasal spray suspension (LAIV) nasal spray vaccine, which will be ordered and supplied to pharmacies from centrally supplied stock.

Pharmacies opting in will be paid £9.58 per vaccination, funded from outside the CPCF global sum.

The Community Pharmacy Service will start from 1st October and pharmacies will be able to show appointments on the National Booking System (NBS) if they have signed up to use:

Pharmacy owners will be able to sign up to provide the service via the MYS portal between 1st and 31st August 2025.

Read the full service details and download the specification

Check your Blood Pressure: Update

Please note that the One Devon site has been updated to include four new blood pressure films made with Dr Kay Brennan. These can be viewed and shared here. Also, The ‘Hypertension outreach for community pharmacists’ page has lots of information as well as download links for various resources.

As well as the films that are embedded into the ‘Check your blood pressure’ page, four other films have been produced; one interview with Kay Brennan and 3 short ads. These are currently set to ‘unlisted’ so only people with a link can view them, please see links below:

Interview Film featuring Exeter library: Kay Interview - Check your blood pressure

Short Ad 1: Check your blood pressure - Ad 1

Short Ad 2: Check your blood pressure - Ad 2

Short Ad 3: Check you blood pressure - Ad 3

Public Health Contracts

You will already have received notification from Torbay Council that the locally commissioned pubic health services in Devon (excluding Plymouth) are currently up for re-procurement. Following the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023 in February 2025, Suppliers participating in procurements will now be expected to register on a central digital platform (CDP).

Suppliers can submit their core supplier information and, where a procurement opportunity arises, share this information with the contracting authority via the CDP. It is free to use and will mean suppliers should no longer have to re-enter this information for each public procurement but simply ensure it is up to date and subsequently shared. The CDP is available here.

Part 1 of the SSQ provides confirmation that suppliers have taken these steps.

The new procurement legislation provides for an ‘exclusion regime’ and a published ‘debarment’ list to safeguard procurement from suppliers who may pose a risk (for example, due to misconduct or poor performance).

Suppliers must submit their own (and their connected persons) exclusions information via the CDP. This includes self-declarations as to whether any exclusion grounds apply to them and, if so, details about the event or conviction and what steps have been taken to prevent such circumstances from occurring again.

Once the above has been completed you will be given a code, This code will then need to be shared with the Public health team. This code is logged on to the paper copy that is emailed back to public health to inform them you would like to bid for the services.

The deadline for this has now been extended until the 26th August. If you do not submit then the team can not issue a contract to you and you will not be eligible to deliver the public health services.

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!

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