Thursday 2nd October 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 Resilience Mentoring and Coaching programme is designed to support contractors to enhance the resilience of their pharmacy business, protecting the community pharmacy network to provide a full range of services from community pharmacies.

It will help the pharmacy team contribute to the local heath economy, collaborating as neighbourhood teams. This works towards the vision for pharmacy in the NHS Ten-Year Plan, will better meet the needs of your local community and will see the pharmacy business grow in terms of turnover and profit. You can watch a video which provides an overview of the resilience support programme here.

To apply for the programme, please fill in the form and return to admin@cpdevon.org.uk. **Please note that due to very limited spaces the form needs to be returned as soon as possible.**

Our recent Community Pharmacy Devon conference (Resilience in Action) took months of planning and organising but it all came together in the end!

We had a broad range of speakers delivering talks on a wide range of topics from the 10-year plan and how it affects pharmacy to the future for community pharmacy clinical services, the use of AI technology in community pharmacy, Independent prescribing, and maximising pharmacy services. This led to conversations about how to best utilise your pharmacy team and ensure your business is fit for the future. The event was excellently presented by Janice Perkins, Pennine ACT and chair of Greater Manchester LPC.

The day was rounded off with an award ceremony that celebrated local pharmacy heroes!

Overall the conference proved to be a great success and received plenty of positive feedback from both speakers and attendees. 

• Download the toolkit here
• Order free printed materials here.

Devon Sexual Health is hosting an online seminar in November that is open to all community pharmacists who may want to have an update on the sexual health landscape for Devon.

This event will help you to understand the local sexual health landscape and what can be offered from specialist services. The seminar will cover what’s new in the Devon Sexual Health service, as well as the latest news on sexually transmitted infections (STIs); contraception; women’s health and HIV updates.

Anyone from primary or secondary care who may support patients with issues relating to sexual health is welcome to attend.

Online event to be held on November 13th 2025, 6-8pm. Register here.

The presenters are all clinicians from Devon Sexual Health, a service delivered through the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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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