1. Cluster Group Meeting February 2015 Prepared by Katherine Robinson

2. Changes to Pharmacy Contract  On 22 September 2014 NHS Employers and the PSNC announced changes to the community pharmacy contractual framework for 2014/15.

3.  changes to Medicines Use Reviews (MURs), including  an increase in the proportion of targeted MURs from 50 per cent to 70 per cent from 1 April 2015  the inclusion of a new MUR target group for patients with cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular risk factors taking four or more regular medicines from 1 January 2015

4.  changes to be made to the Approved Particulars for incident reporting, clarifying the reporting requirements for patient safety incidents and requiring pharmacies to submit reports on a non-anonymised basis

5.  the national audit will be on emergency supplies of medicines made by pharmacies.  This will be in place of the NHS England specified clinical audit

6.  a requirement for pharmacies to advise eligible patients about the benefits of the repeat dispensing service.

7.  In addition, it has been agreed that the New Medicine Service (NMS) will be continued, following the publication of the report of the evaluation of the service.

8. Funding  To support these service developments, funding of £2.8 billion has been agreed with NHS England comprising  £2 billion from fees and allowances and £0.8 billion from medicines margin.  agreement has been reached to reduce practice payments by £70 million from November over a period of five months.  medicine margin is being increased by £10 million per month from October 2014.  NHS England, the Department of Health (DH) and PSNC have committed to seek to deliver the £2.8 billion funding in 2014/15, if possible, with principles established for handling any under or over delivery.

9. EPS Release 2  Are you ready?  System  Smartcards  Working with GPs  Informing Patients  Staff training

10. Does your pharmacy have an NHS.net email account? Secure transfer of patient sensitive information

11.  Obtain an NHS.net account via the LPC website:  http://www.cambsandpeterboroughlpc.org.u k/essential-services/nhs-net-accounts/ http://www.cambsandpeterboroughlpc.org.u k/essential-services/nhs-net-accounts/

12. Flu Jabs  5964 ‘flu jabs were delivered by community pharmacy across NSC.  Over £81 000 extra funding into East Anglia.  A 3 fold increase compared with last season.  50% were from the chronic respiratory disease group.  In our area we did 1372 (23%) ‘Flu jabs.  There’s a gap in service provision in some areas in Cambs.

13.  Will Flu jabs be a National service next Winter?

14. Accreditation & Training  Commissioner Accreditation changing  HAG → Self-Declaration of Competence  CPPE Website: Same content functionality changed HEE funding, tokens dropped Self- Dec. for LES – Consultation Skills

15. Future of Pharmacy  Pharmacy is in the headlines!  Pharmacy is changing!  More delivery of services  MUR  NMS  New National services??

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