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NHS 111 patients redirected to community pharmacies as part of five-year funding deal ... ling NHS 111 with concerns about minor conditions will be offered an appointment at their local community pharmacy, the Government has announced. The new community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) will initially only take referrals from NHS 111 but it could accept referrals from GPs and A&E departments if testing for these is successful. The service – which was announced on Monday (2 ... Date: 24-07-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
Everything we know so far about the new contract ... Serious Shortage Protocols Introducing the Falsified Medicines Directive. A new national consultation service A new national service, the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), will be commissioned from the autumn, bringing together the NHS urgent supply advanced service (NUMSAS) and the digital minor ailments referral service (DMIRS) into one service. The CPCS is desi ... Date: 25-07-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
The new contract gives with one hand and takes away with the other ... stone Now you see it, now you don’t. Or, if you’d rather, the new five-year pharmacy contract doles out £14 per minor ailment consultation under the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) on the one hand, while it nicks your medicines use review (MUR) dosh out of your back pocket with the other. Believe me, we GPs are very familiar with Governmental recycling trick of developing n ... Date: 29-07-2019 Categories: • Views
PSNC negotiates flu vaccine fee hike to £9.58 and axes patient questionnaire ... his will also be particularly important this year as we head into an incredibly busy autumn and winter period for pharmacies. With the launch of the new NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) and all the work associated with the PQS to fit in alongside the usual winter vaccination season, this will not be an easy few months for any community pharmacy. ‘However, if we can succeed in ... Date: 23-08-2019 Categories: • News
NHS England unveils details of community pharmacist consultation service as registration opens NHS England has published the details of the new community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) to coincide with the start of registration for the service today (2 September). The advanced service, which will see NHS 111 patients with minor illnesses or those who require urgent prescription ... Date: 02-09-2019 Categories: • News
Everything you need to know about the new community pharmacist consultation service Today (2 September), registration opened for the national community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions. With the new service set to go live on 29 October, The ... Date: 02-09-2019 Categories: • Analysis • News
Pharmacy bodies urge contractors to sign up for NHS 111 referrals service Pharmacy bodies have urged contractors to sign up for the new community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) after registration opened this week (2 September). The national service, which is set to launch on 29 October, will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 refe ... Date: 04-09-2019 Categories: • News
Over 1,800 community pharmacies signed up for NHS 111 referrals service More than 1,800 community pharmacies have signed up to deliver the NHS 111 referrals service so far, The Pharmacist has learned. The national community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), which is set to launch on 29 October, will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions. As of 23 September, ... Date: 26-09-2019 Categories: • News
Government ‘absolutely determined’ to make savings in community pharmacy, says PSNC ... funding ‘is still supporting more pharmacies in some places than may be necessary’, according to the contract document. However, Mr Dukes said that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – makes a strong case against consolidation. He s ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News
Revealed: The truth about the French pharmacy model ... ice, pharmacists will be able to dispense some prescription-only medicines (POMs) for minor ailments such as cystitis and angina. Meanwhile, the English community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – is due to launch on 29 October. So th ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News
Almost three-quarters of pharmacists signed up for CPCS Over 8,500 community pharmacies in England have signed up to offer the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), NHS England has announced. A total of 8,649 community pharmacies – which represents almost three quarters of the 11,600 pharmacies in England – are registered to offer the minor ailments ser ... Date: 31-10-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
Women in Pharmacy: RPS English board chair Claire Anderson ... or community pharmacy, I think it's a very hard time with the cuts and the five-year contract, but it is a time with enormous opportunities. Things like the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) will help pharmacists to really establish their clinical skills, be known for that and be better integrated with primary care, which is a very good thing. If we get the implementation right, the upt ... Date: 31-10-2019 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views
Capacity: Community pharmacy's challenge that keeps Simon Dukes 'awake at night' ... d that community pharmacy faces ‘significant challenges’. These include the sector's capacity to deliver the contract's stipulations, including the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), collaboration and the new pharmacy quality scheme (PQS), he said. He told delegates: ‘[Capacity] is the one that keeps me awake at night because we can only [deliver the CPCS and the contractu ... Date: 20-11-2019 Categories: • News
Nine in ten community pharmacies signed up to deliver CPCS Nine in 10 community pharmacies have now signed up to deliver the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), the Government has said. The CPCS, announced as part of the new English community pharmacy contract in July and launched in October, sees pharmacists paid £14 for each same-day consultation res ... Date: 13-01-2020 Categories: • News
Burnt out contractor: ‘I can’t do this anymore’ The pressures of community pharmacy are becoming too much for one anonymous contractor Came home and cried again today. I can’t do it. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s (PSNC ... Date: 14-01-2020 Categories: • Community • Views
Pharmacy bodies welcome CPCS 'success' Pharmacy bodies have reacted positively to the news that over 100,000 patients have already received the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS). The CPCS was announced as part of the new English community pharmacy contract in July and launched in October. Pharmacists are paid £14 for each same-day consultation resulting from an NHS 111 ... Date: 14-01-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News
CPCS: How to make the most of your NHS 111 referrals The very nature of the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) is unpredictable, with the distribution of NHS 111 referrals meaning some pharmacies are seeing very few patients compared with others. The service, which was launched last October, has seen 10,6 ... Date: 27-01-2020 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views
Pharmacy contract: all you need to know about the changes ... shment payments will reduce (from April 2020) – but their phasing out will be extended, with payments phased out completely by the end of the year. The community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) budget will increase – this will cover the costs incurred by referrals from GP practices and NHS 111 online into community pharmacies (though the fees will stay the same). Pharmacists will take ... Date: 24-02-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News
Minor ailments service: 'I get a lot of job satisfaction from talking to our patients' ... would say we probably make around £120 a month. Would you recommend offering this service to other contractors? I think that as we go forward with the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), and we get more minor illnesses directed to us from NHS 111 and from GP receptionists, then the opportunities for us to deliver this service will increase - and therefore we have no choice but to o ... Date: 03-03-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Minor ailments
Clinical services will be a ‘struggle’, say pharmacists ... acists have raised concerns over the feasibility of providing new clinical services because of lack of staff. Pharmacists will be expected to deliver the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), as well as a range of others, such as hepatitis C testing and a stop-smoking referral scheme, that were announced as part of amendments to the contract last month. Mike Hewitson, a superintenden ... Date: 03-03-2020 Categories: • Analysis • Latest News • News
Urgent drug supply and delivery services on the table for community pharmacy ... further notice of three pilots – blood pressure testing, smoking cessation, and point-of-care testing – that were announced last monthnot extending the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) beyond the pilots that are currently in placeNHSE&I not taking action against contractors who haven’t completed the CPPQ and clinical audits by the end of March, or updated their practice leaf ... Date: 19-03-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Covid-19: Pharmacies now allowed to close doors for an extra 2.5 hours per day, says NHS ... visions to support their staff,’ they said. The updated Covid-19 guidance also noted that from this weekend, the NHS 111 online service would be making Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) referrals to community pharmacies where people need urgent access to their usual prescribed medicines. Meanwhile, the Welsh Government confirmed it will be rolling out coronavirus testing, starti ... Date: 24-03-2020 Categories: • Analysis • News • Respiratory
'Patients need professional advice on hay fever - pharmacists should grab the opportunity' ... ot available - but it’s certainly lucrative. Hay fever season is a very, very busy time of year for us and it generates a lot of income. With the new community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS), there will also be an opportunity for us to get paid for hay fever consultations, if a patient is referred to us from NHS 111. This year will be the first hay fever season since the CPCS has been i ... Date: 29-04-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Seasonal health
PSNC: Pharmacy teams asked to record patient consultations ... ormation will also ‘support the ongoing funding negotiations’. As it stands, patient consultations are not officially recorded like referrals via the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), yet PSNC believes that have a ‘significant beneficial impact on local communities, patients and the wider NHS’. PSNC Chief Executive Simon Dukes noted that pharmacies had experienced a rise ... Date: 16-06-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Community pharmacists are highly qualified clinical experts, says NHS chief executive ... ut the need to go to a hospital A&E department. 'As the NHS adapts its urgent care services for the coronavirus era, these new options are going to be increasingly important,' he added. The CPCS service has been an important part of the primary care response to the Covid-19 pandemic, NHS leaders said, with 94% (10,815) of NHS pharmacies in England registered to provide the service. Chief ... Date: 19-06-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory
NHS Digital rolls out electronic notifications for urgent supply of medicines ... bout care. Electronic notifications are currently being shared between pharmacy and GP practices when an urgent supply of medicine is made as part of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), and when pharmacies administer flu vaccinations. Ian Lowry, director of medication, social care, child health and maternity at NHS Digital, said: ‘This latest stage in the rollout means that a ... Date: 28-08-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service starts taking referrals from GPs The Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) has now been extended to include referrals from GPs. GPs can choose whether they want to refer patients to pharmacies for a minor illness consultation and local agreements must be in place before ... Date: 03-11-2020 Categories: • News
GPs make 500 referrals to pharmacist consultation service in first two weeks GPs have made just over 500 referrals to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) in the first two weeks of being able to refer into the scheme. The service, which offers patients a consultation with their local pharmacist for minor illnesses, previously only took referrals fr ... Date: 14-12-2020 Categories: • News
Pharmacy audit to capture extent of unpaid referrals from GPs and NHS 111 ... omes after PSNC received reports that GP teams and NHS 111 continue to refer patients to pharmacies for consultations informally by circumventing the agreed Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) route. As it stands, patient consultations are not officially recorded like referrals via the CPCS. Richard Brown, a pharmacist and chief officer for Avon LPC explained concerns that informal ... Date: 22-01-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
‘Why do we constantly have to go cap in hand to the Treasury to prove our worth?’ ... t management services, asthma clinics, not to mention the hundreds of pharmacy teams up and down the country involved with pharmacy-led Covid vaccination sites. NMS, Discharge Medicine Service and CPCS are a start, but the volume of referrals and overall income will not replace a) the lost Medicines Use Review (MUR) income or b) provide any seismic shift from our dispensing and volume-based model. ... Date: 18-03-2021 Categories: • Community • Views
Pharmacies could pick up 10% of online GP consultations via CPCS Around 10% of online GP consultations could potentially be referred to pharmacies via the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), according to NHS England’s head of pharmacy integration. In an NHS England webinar on 30 March, Anne Joshua said that ‘some early work’ coming from practices in the London area had shown t ... Date: 01-04-2021 Categories: • News
Community pharmacists urge GPs to see more patients face-to-face ... the pandemic. ‘We still offer the checks, but now we offer them privately,’ Mr Patel said. ‘This means a lot of people walk away, and we don’t know what happens to them.’ ‘Bypassing CPCS’ Meanwhile, Sunil Kochhar, a consultant pharmacist and IP at Regent Pharmacy in Gravesend, Kent, said that he has also had to provide unpaid services throughout the pandemic as a result of remot ... Date: 20-05-2021 Categories: • News
Paying back the £370m Covid funding: ‘We would have to close all of our branches’ Community pharmacies in England are due to pay back a £370m Government loan later this year, but many contractors are concerned they will struggle to cover the costs. The funding was given to contrac ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacy First service: 'Patients like it because they can see the pharmacist immediately' ... st serve our patients. We were already offering a lot of pharmacy services such as emergency EHC, minor ailments, urgent supply, the C-Card scheme, an urgent eyecare service, and more recently CPCS and DMS, so Pharmacy First was an obvious addition to complement these. How much did it cost to set up the service? We have bought various PharmaDoctor PGDs for healthy living, men’s ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • Men's health • Pharmacy First • Women's health
'Whatever happened to the promise of more clinical services?' ... w contract and still in the depth of a global pandemic I thought it would be useful to review the contract and how it has been received at the coal face. Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) The NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service was launched on 29 October 2019 as an Advanced Service. Since 1 November 2020, general practices have been able to refer patients for a minor ... Date: 27-05-2021 Categories: • Community • Views
Funding pharmacy consultations ‘properly’ would reduce GP workload, say pharmacists ... uld be in a much better position to help a lot more people than we are helping at the moment – and this would help GPs in the long run,’ he said. The Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) – which was extended to take referrals from GPs last November – is likely seen as part of the solution, with pharmacists picking up more minor ailments consultations and taking this workload awa ... Date: 28-05-2021 Categories: • News
Weight loss clinic: ‘We talk to patients about services during CPCS consultations’ ... directly contributes to CV and BP problems, and diabetes, so losing weight has a huge impact on patients’ long-term health, and as a direct result save the NHS money. The GP CPCS is making us quite well known to new patients, and during these consultations we get the chance to speak to them about other services – such as weight loss – that could help them. How ha ... Date: 16-06-2021 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Healthy living
Pharmacies should lead on Covid booster jabs to free up GPs’ time ... the Covid and flu vaccination programmes this winter. ‘It is also critically important that the NHS enables community pharmacies to further support the NHS this winter by ensuring the number of CPCS referrals is significantly increased, helping both patients and GPs.’ Date: 22-06-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Hancock to ‘propose solutions’ to CPCS issues The health secretary wants to ‘propose solutions’ to issues with the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), following reports of little to no referrals in some parts of the country since its launch. Responding to a question asked by the Pharmacist at a webinar hosted by Sigma Pharmaceuticals yesterday ... Date: 24-06-2021 Categories: • News
Improving cancer survival: Time to take down the barriers stopping community pharmacy ... . Each week, just under 130,000 informal referrals from general practice and NHS11 are received into pharmacy. The emerging picture from the rollout of the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is now helping us to better understand its adoption challenges and possibly some design gaps. Every week pharmacies provided advice to more than 730,000 people (nearly 38 million people per year) ... Date: 29-06-2021 Categories: • Community • News • Views
Most vulnerable could be offered booster vaccine alongside flu in September Millions of clinically vulnerable people could receive their Covid booster vaccine alongside their flu vaccine as early as September, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. Thi ... Date: 30-06-2021 Categories: • News
Covid: the Government's broken promises to community pharmacy ... es. He described his plan for vaccination to be driven through community pharmacy sites, sharing his belief that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) should be used to take pressure off our GP colleagues, applauding our work ethic, and how as a profession, pharmacy had a bright future. There was hope: a health s ... Date: 02-07-2021 Categories: • Community • Views
GPs ‘haven’t always been able to understand’ pharmacy, says NHSE as RPS calls for roundtable ... on flu vaccinations, on management of various conditions, and I know that in other places the relationship isn't as well developed. ‘For things like the GP referral route through to CPCS [community pharmacy consultation service] to work well, I think it all hinges on those relationships at local level. This comes as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) called for ... Date: 09-07-2021 Categories: • News
APPG launches inquiry into the future of pharmacy sector post-Covid ... mmunity pharmacy settings - such as an increased range of vaccinations. They will also be looking into the current state of newer services such as Community Pharmacist Consultation Services (CPCS) and Discharge Medicines Service (DMS). The group has said respondents can also help by providing information on how they believe pharmacy can be better integrated into NHS care pathways. ... Date: 13-09-2021 Categories: • News
RCGP supports potential for CPCS to help with Covid backlog ... Social Care Committee meeting today (21 September), Professor Martin Marshall CBE said that pharmacies can help GPs cope with their high workload through the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) - for which he said he understood that ‘the uptake for has not been great’. ‘The low uptake is something we are working on very closely with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), we run w ... Date: 21-09-2021 Categories: • News
GPs to sign up to CPCS by December to access £250m cash injection General practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund announced today (14 October), NHS England (NHSE) has said. NHSE has published a plan for improving patient access to appointme ... Date: 14-10-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacies should directly approach GPs and PCNs to recruit patients for hypertension service ... atients and to support GPs and their teams ahead of winter. As part of this, general practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund. Date: 18-10-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacy must be better integrated into the NHS to support self-care, say health bodies ... erarchies in the NHS must all be done away with.’ This comes as general practices in England have been encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund. According to NHSE, just 800 of the 6,822 GP practices in England are signed up to the service. Paul B ... Date: 19-10-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacy bodies disappointed that GPs told ‘not to engage’ with NHSE access plan ... plan could have on the pharmacy sector. As part of the NHS England's access plan, general practices in England have been encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter fund. Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive officer of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) told The Pharmacist it w ... Date: 21-10-2021 Categories: • News
Exclusive: No PQS time extension request despite additional workload ... nett, superintendent at Wicker Pharmacy, said: ‘[It is] time for PSNC and the NPA to lobby for an immediate time extension for PQS. ‘If NHSE wants pharmacies to take on some of the GP load (GP CPCS, Hypertension, OCMS, Flu and Covid vaccinations) along with the extra workload from the pandemic, staff shortages and Christmas, we need time,’ he said. Ashley Cohen, pharmacist and managing dir ... Date: 27-10-2021 Categories: • News

NHS 111 patients redirected to community pharmacies as part of five-year funding deal ... ling NHS 111 with concerns about minor conditions will be offered an appointment at their local community pharmacy, the Government has announced. The new community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) will initially only take referrals from NHS 111 but it could accept referrals from GPs and A&E departments if testing for these is successful. The service – which was announced on Monday (2 ... Date: 24-07-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

Everything we know so far about the new contract ... Serious Shortage Protocols Introducing the Falsified Medicines Directive. A new national consultation service A new national service, the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), will be commissioned from the autumn, bringing together the NHS urgent supply advanced service (NUMSAS) and the digital minor ailments referral service (DMIRS) into one service. The CPCS is desi ... Date: 25-07-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

The new contract gives with one hand and takes away with the other ... stone Now you see it, now you don’t. Or, if you’d rather, the new five-year pharmacy contract doles out £14 per minor ailment consultation under the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) on the one hand, while it nicks your medicines use review (MUR) dosh out of your back pocket with the other. Believe me, we GPs are very familiar with Governmental recycling trick of developing n ... Date: 29-07-2019 Categories: • Views

PSNC negotiates flu vaccine fee hike to £9.58 and axes patient questionnaire ... his will also be particularly important this year as we head into an incredibly busy autumn and winter period for pharmacies. With the launch of the new NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) and all the work associated with the PQS to fit in alongside the usual winter vaccination season, this will not be an easy few months for any community pharmacy. ‘However, if we can succeed in ... Date: 23-08-2019 Categories: • News

NHS England unveils details of community pharmacist consultation service as registration opens NHS England has published the details of the new community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) to coincide with the start of registration for the service today (2 September). The advanced service, which will see NHS 111 patients with minor illnesses or those who require urgent prescription ... Date: 02-09-2019 Categories: • News

Everything you need to know about the new community pharmacist consultation service Today (2 September), registration opened for the national community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions. With the new service set to go live on 29 October, The ... Date: 02-09-2019 Categories: • Analysis • News

Pharmacy bodies urge contractors to sign up for NHS 111 referrals service Pharmacy bodies have urged contractors to sign up for the new community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) after registration opened this week (2 September). The national service, which is set to launch on 29 October, will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 refe ... Date: 04-09-2019 Categories: • News

Over 1,800 community pharmacies signed up for NHS 111 referrals service More than 1,800 community pharmacies have signed up to deliver the NHS 111 referrals service so far, The Pharmacist has learned. The national community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), which is set to launch on 29 October, will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions. As of 23 September, ... Date: 26-09-2019 Categories: • News

Government ‘absolutely determined’ to make savings in community pharmacy, says PSNC ... funding ‘is still supporting more pharmacies in some places than may be necessary’, according to the contract document. However, Mr Dukes said that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – makes a strong case against consolidation. He s ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News

Revealed: The truth about the French pharmacy model ... ice, pharmacists will be able to dispense some prescription-only medicines (POMs) for minor ailments such as cystitis and angina. Meanwhile, the English community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) – which will see pharmacists paid £14 for each consultation resulting from an NHS 111 referral for minor illnesses or urgent prescriptions – is due to launch on 29 October. So th ... Date: 07-10-2019 Categories: • News

Almost three-quarters of pharmacists signed up for CPCS Over 8,500 community pharmacies in England have signed up to offer the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), NHS England has announced. A total of 8,649 community pharmacies – which represents almost three quarters of the 11,600 pharmacies in England – are registered to offer the minor ailments ser ... Date: 31-10-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

Women in Pharmacy: RPS English board chair Claire Anderson ... or community pharmacy, I think it's a very hard time with the cuts and the five-year contract, but it is a time with enormous opportunities. Things like the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) will help pharmacists to really establish their clinical skills, be known for that and be better integrated with primary care, which is a very good thing. If we get the implementation right, the upt ... Date: 31-10-2019 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views

Capacity: Community pharmacy's challenge that keeps Simon Dukes 'awake at night' ... d that community pharmacy faces ‘significant challenges’. These include the sector's capacity to deliver the contract's stipulations, including the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), collaboration and the new pharmacy quality scheme (PQS), he said. He told delegates: ‘[Capacity] is the one that keeps me awake at night because we can only [deliver the CPCS and the contractu ... Date: 20-11-2019 Categories: • News

Nine in ten community pharmacies signed up to deliver CPCS Nine in 10 community pharmacies have now signed up to deliver the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), the Government has said. The CPCS, announced as part of the new English community pharmacy contract in July and launched in October, sees pharmacists paid £14 for each same-day consultation res ... Date: 13-01-2020 Categories: • News

Burnt out contractor: ‘I can’t do this anymore’ The pressures of community pharmacy are becoming too much for one anonymous contractor Came home and cried again today. I can’t do it. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s (PSNC ... Date: 14-01-2020 Categories: • Community • Views

Pharmacy bodies welcome CPCS 'success' Pharmacy bodies have reacted positively to the news that over 100,000 patients have already received the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS). The CPCS was announced as part of the new English community pharmacy contract in July and launched in October. Pharmacists are paid £14 for each same-day consultation resulting from an NHS 111 ... Date: 14-01-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News

CPCS: How to make the most of your NHS 111 referrals The very nature of the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) is unpredictable, with the distribution of NHS 111 referrals meaning some pharmacies are seeing very few patients compared with others. The service, which was launched last October, has seen 10,6 ... Date: 27-01-2020 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views

Pharmacy contract: all you need to know about the changes ... shment payments will reduce (from April 2020) – but their phasing out will be extended, with payments phased out completely by the end of the year. The community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) budget will increase – this will cover the costs incurred by referrals from GP practices and NHS 111 online into community pharmacies (though the fees will stay the same). Pharmacists will take ... Date: 24-02-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News

Minor ailments service: 'I get a lot of job satisfaction from talking to our patients' ... would say we probably make around £120 a month. Would you recommend offering this service to other contractors? I think that as we go forward with the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), and we get more minor illnesses directed to us from NHS 111 and from GP receptionists, then the opportunities for us to deliver this service will increase - and therefore we have no choice but to o ... Date: 03-03-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Minor ailments

Clinical services will be a ‘struggle’, say pharmacists ... acists have raised concerns over the feasibility of providing new clinical services because of lack of staff. Pharmacists will be expected to deliver the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS), as well as a range of others, such as hepatitis C testing and a stop-smoking referral scheme, that were announced as part of amendments to the contract last month. Mike Hewitson, a superintenden ... Date: 03-03-2020 Categories: • Analysis • Latest News • News

Urgent drug supply and delivery services on the table for community pharmacy ... further notice of three pilots – blood pressure testing, smoking cessation, and point-of-care testing – that were announced last monthnot extending the community pharmacist consultation service (CPCS) beyond the pilots that are currently in placeNHSE&I not taking action against contractors who haven’t completed the CPPQ and clinical audits by the end of March, or updated their practice leaf ... Date: 19-03-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Covid-19: Pharmacies now allowed to close doors for an extra 2.5 hours per day, says NHS ... visions to support their staff,’ they said. The updated Covid-19 guidance also noted that from this weekend, the NHS 111 online service would be making Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) referrals to community pharmacies where people need urgent access to their usual prescribed medicines. Meanwhile, the Welsh Government confirmed it will be rolling out coronavirus testing, starti ... Date: 24-03-2020 Categories: • Analysis • News • Respiratory

'Patients need professional advice on hay fever - pharmacists should grab the opportunity' ... ot available - but it’s certainly lucrative. Hay fever season is a very, very busy time of year for us and it generates a lot of income. With the new community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS), there will also be an opportunity for us to get paid for hay fever consultations, if a patient is referred to us from NHS 111. This year will be the first hay fever season since the CPCS has been i ... Date: 29-04-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Seasonal health

PSNC: Pharmacy teams asked to record patient consultations ... ormation will also ‘support the ongoing funding negotiations’. As it stands, patient consultations are not officially recorded like referrals via the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), yet PSNC believes that have a ‘significant beneficial impact on local communities, patients and the wider NHS’. PSNC Chief Executive Simon Dukes noted that pharmacies had experienced a rise ... Date: 16-06-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Community pharmacists are highly qualified clinical experts, says NHS chief executive ... ut the need to go to a hospital A&E department. 'As the NHS adapts its urgent care services for the coronavirus era, these new options are going to be increasingly important,' he added. The CPCS service has been an important part of the primary care response to the Covid-19 pandemic, NHS leaders said, with 94% (10,815) of NHS pharmacies in England registered to provide the service. Chief ... Date: 19-06-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

NHS Digital rolls out electronic notifications for urgent supply of medicines ... bout care. Electronic notifications are currently being shared between pharmacy and GP practices when an urgent supply of medicine is made as part of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), and when pharmacies administer flu vaccinations. Ian Lowry, director of medication, social care, child health and maternity at NHS Digital, said: ‘This latest stage in the rollout means that a ... Date: 28-08-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News

Community Pharmacist Consultation Service starts taking referrals from GPs The Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) has now been extended to include referrals from GPs. GPs can choose whether they want to refer patients to pharmacies for a minor illness consultation and local agreements must be in place before ... Date: 03-11-2020 Categories: • News

GPs make 500 referrals to pharmacist consultation service in first two weeks GPs have made just over 500 referrals to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) in the first two weeks of being able to refer into the scheme. The service, which offers patients a consultation with their local pharmacist for minor illnesses, previously only took referrals fr ... Date: 14-12-2020 Categories: • News

Pharmacy audit to capture extent of unpaid referrals from GPs and NHS 111 ... omes after PSNC received reports that GP teams and NHS 111 continue to refer patients to pharmacies for consultations informally by circumventing the agreed Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) route. As it stands, patient consultations are not officially recorded like referrals via the CPCS. Richard Brown, a pharmacist and chief officer for Avon LPC explained concerns that informal ... Date: 22-01-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

‘Why do we constantly have to go cap in hand to the Treasury to prove our worth?’ ... t management services, asthma clinics, not to mention the hundreds of pharmacy teams up and down the country involved with pharmacy-led Covid vaccination sites. NMS, Discharge Medicine Service and CPCS are a start, but the volume of referrals and overall income will not replace a) the lost Medicines Use Review (MUR) income or b) provide any seismic shift from our dispensing and volume-based model. ... Date: 18-03-2021 Categories: • Community • Views

Pharmacies could pick up 10% of online GP consultations via CPCS Around 10% of online GP consultations could potentially be referred to pharmacies via the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), according to NHS England’s head of pharmacy integration. In an NHS England webinar on 30 March, Anne Joshua said that ‘some early work’ coming from practices in the London area had shown t ... Date: 01-04-2021 Categories: • News

Community pharmacists urge GPs to see more patients face-to-face ... the pandemic. ‘We still offer the checks, but now we offer them privately,’ Mr Patel said. ‘This means a lot of people walk away, and we don’t know what happens to them.’ ‘Bypassing CPCS’ Meanwhile, Sunil Kochhar, a consultant pharmacist and IP at Regent Pharmacy in Gravesend, Kent, said that he has also had to provide unpaid services throughout the pandemic as a result of remot ... Date: 20-05-2021 Categories: • News

Paying back the £370m Covid funding: ‘We would have to close all of our branches’ Community pharmacies in England are due to pay back a £370m Government loan later this year, but many contractors are concerned they will struggle to cover the costs. The funding was given to contrac ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacy First service: 'Patients like it because they can see the pharmacist immediately' ... st serve our patients. We were already offering a lot of pharmacy services such as emergency EHC, minor ailments, urgent supply, the C-Card scheme, an urgent eyecare service, and more recently CPCS and DMS, so Pharmacy First was an obvious addition to complement these. How much did it cost to set up the service? We have bought various PharmaDoctor PGDs for healthy living, men’s ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • Men's health • Pharmacy First • Women's health

'Whatever happened to the promise of more clinical services?' ... w contract and still in the depth of a global pandemic I thought it would be useful to review the contract and how it has been received at the coal face. Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) The NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service was launched on 29 October 2019 as an Advanced Service. Since 1 November 2020, general practices have been able to refer patients for a minor ... Date: 27-05-2021 Categories: • Community • Views

Funding pharmacy consultations ‘properly’ would reduce GP workload, say pharmacists ... uld be in a much better position to help a lot more people than we are helping at the moment – and this would help GPs in the long run,’ he said. The Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) – which was extended to take referrals from GPs last November – is likely seen as part of the solution, with pharmacists picking up more minor ailments consultations and taking this workload awa ... Date: 28-05-2021 Categories: • News

Weight loss clinic: ‘We talk to patients about services during CPCS consultations’ ... directly contributes to CV and BP problems, and diabetes, so losing weight has a huge impact on patients’ long-term health, and as a direct result save the NHS money. The GP CPCS is making us quite well known to new patients, and during these consultations we get the chance to speak to them about other services – such as weight loss – that could help them. How ha ... Date: 16-06-2021 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Healthy living

Pharmacies should lead on Covid booster jabs to free up GPs’ time ... the Covid and flu vaccination programmes this winter. ‘It is also critically important that the NHS enables community pharmacies to further support the NHS this winter by ensuring the number of CPCS referrals is significantly increased, helping both patients and GPs.’ Date: 22-06-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Hancock to ‘propose solutions’ to CPCS issues The health secretary wants to ‘propose solutions’ to issues with the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS), following reports of little to no referrals in some parts of the country since its launch. Responding to a question asked by the Pharmacist at a webinar hosted by Sigma Pharmaceuticals yesterday ... Date: 24-06-2021 Categories: • News

Improving cancer survival: Time to take down the barriers stopping community pharmacy ... . Each week, just under 130,000 informal referrals from general practice and NHS11 are received into pharmacy. The emerging picture from the rollout of the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) is now helping us to better understand its adoption challenges and possibly some design gaps. Every week pharmacies provided advice to more than 730,000 people (nearly 38 million people per year) ... Date: 29-06-2021 Categories: • Community • News • Views

Most vulnerable could be offered booster vaccine alongside flu in September Millions of clinically vulnerable people could receive their Covid booster vaccine alongside their flu vaccine as early as September, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. Thi ... Date: 30-06-2021 Categories: • News

Covid: the Government's broken promises to community pharmacy ... es. He described his plan for vaccination to be driven through community pharmacy sites, sharing his belief that the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) should be used to take pressure off our GP colleagues, applauding our work ethic, and how as a profession, pharmacy had a bright future. There was hope: a health s ... Date: 02-07-2021 Categories: • Community • Views

GPs ‘haven’t always been able to understand’ pharmacy, says NHSE as RPS calls for roundtable ... on flu vaccinations, on management of various conditions, and I know that in other places the relationship isn't as well developed. ‘For things like the GP referral route through to CPCS [community pharmacy consultation service] to work well, I think it all hinges on those relationships at local level. This comes as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) called for ... Date: 09-07-2021 Categories: • News

APPG launches inquiry into the future of pharmacy sector post-Covid ... mmunity pharmacy settings - such as an increased range of vaccinations. They will also be looking into the current state of newer services such as Community Pharmacist Consultation Services (CPCS) and Discharge Medicines Service (DMS). The group has said respondents can also help by providing information on how they believe pharmacy can be better integrated into NHS care pathways. ... Date: 13-09-2021 Categories: • News

RCGP supports potential for CPCS to help with Covid backlog ... Social Care Committee meeting today (21 September), Professor Martin Marshall CBE said that pharmacies can help GPs cope with their high workload through the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) - for which he said he understood that ‘the uptake for has not been great’. ‘The low uptake is something we are working on very closely with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), we run w ... Date: 21-09-2021 Categories: • News

GPs to sign up to CPCS by December to access £250m cash injection General practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund announced today (14 October), NHS England (NHSE) has said. NHSE has published a plan for improving patient access to appointme ... Date: 14-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacies should directly approach GPs and PCNs to recruit patients for hypertension service ... atients and to support GPs and their teams ahead of winter. As part of this, general practices in England are being encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund. Date: 18-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacy must be better integrated into the NHS to support self-care, say health bodies ... erarchies in the NHS must all be done away with.’ This comes as general practices in England have been encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter access fund. According to NHSE, just 800 of the 6,822 GP practices in England are signed up to the service. Paul B ... Date: 19-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacy bodies disappointed that GPs told ‘not to engage’ with NHSE access plan ... plan could have on the pharmacy sector. As part of the NHS England's access plan, general practices in England have been encouraged to sign up to the community pharmacy consultation service (CPCS) before 1 December if they want to access a £250m winter fund. Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive officer of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) told The Pharmacist it w ... Date: 21-10-2021 Categories: • News

Exclusive: No PQS time extension request despite additional workload ... nett, superintendent at Wicker Pharmacy, said: ‘[It is] time for PSNC and the NPA to lobby for an immediate time extension for PQS. ‘If NHSE wants pharmacies to take on some of the GP load (GP CPCS, Hypertension, OCMS, Flu and Covid vaccinations) along with the extra workload from the pandemic, staff shortages and Christmas, we need time,’ he said. Ashley Cohen, pharmacist and managing dir ... Date: 27-10-2021 Categories: • News

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