Bulletin 4 -

Pharmacy First:

Less Than 2 Weeks to Go!

Claim the £2000 Payment Before 30th January 2024

Community Pharmacy & the Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care – Bulletin 4

Have You Registered for the Service & Claimed the £2000 Initial Fixed Payment?

There has been a fantastic response to Pharmacy First with 88% of West Yorkshire pharmacies having now registered to provide the service. However, we would like to encourage ALL our pharmacies to consider signing up to deliver the Pharmacy First Advanced Service. This is a great opportunity, is well funded, and will lay the foundations for future clinical services, further establishing community pharmacy as the first port of call for patients within primary care. So, if your pharmacy is one of the 13% that haven’t yet signed up, please sign-up ASAP. Remember, the deadline for registering for the service to receive the £2000 payment is 11:59pm on 30th January 2024. After this date pharmacies can still register to provide the service but will not receive the £2000 initial fixed payment. See the Community Pharmacy England (CPE) news story here.

Local Training & Events

Preparing for Launch - CPWY is holding a face-to-face event on the evening of Wednesday 24th January 2024 7:15pm – 8:45pm (food and refreshments available from 6:30pm) in Brighouse. This event is aimed at the whole pharmacy team and will outline how the service will work and provide practical information to help teams get ready for the service. We will provide a brief reminder of the service requirements, followed by a review of the resources that are available. We are also hoping to hear from several different speakers who will be able to provide tips on various elements of the service. This event is now fully booked so if you have not yet registered to attend, but are interested in attending, please email info@cpwy.org with your details and we will let you know if there are any cancellations.

(Note: CPE currently has on-demand webinars that have taken place recently around the service which may be helpful to watch and can be accessed here).

Otoscope Training - pharmacists providing the service will need to be competent in the use of an otoscope (except Distance Selling Pharmacies). CPWY has worked with CPPE to arrange 4 Pharmacy First ENT Clinical Assessments Skills Workshops across the West Yorkshire area to provide an additional 240 places to the 120 places initially provided by CPPE. All these events are now fully booked, and pharmacists may want to book onto the CliniSkills otoscope training webinar which is being held tomorrow (Thursday 18th January). Please see below for details. We would also be interested to hear from any pharmacists who are still to access otoscope training – please complete this short survey here. Thank you.

Other Available Training

Otoscope training webinar - CliniSkills is also delivering an online webinar for otoscope training on Thursday 18th January, 18:00 – 19:30. Pharmacists attending this webinar will first need to complete a gateway module AND ENT module before the webinar to get maximum benefit from the training. Find out more and sign up here.

Free Clinical Examination Skills Training for Community Pharmacists (CliniSkills) – have a look at https://www.cliniskills.com/community-pharmacists/ to see the training offers available. CliniSkills offer several modules which will help prepare for Pharmacy First.

Virtual Outcomes (free to all West Yorkshire Community Pharmacy Teams) - this training includes an introduction and service overview of Pharmacy First for the whole pharmacy team, and 7 separate condition modules which look at the key points for each clinical pathway. Each condition module is short to allow pharmacists to “dip” into each condition as required. See the Virtual Outcomes website here.

Don’t forget, CPPE has a dedicated Pharmacy First page which includes a self-assessment framework for Pharmacy First and lots of useful resources to support preparing to provide the service.

Please visit the CPE Pharmacy First webpage for further information and details of this new service.



Kind regards,

CPWY

Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire

www.cpwy.org

info@cpwy.org

0113 272 7560