The website for Somerset Pharmacy Contractors
Welcome to the Website of Somerset LPC, representing Community Pharmacy Contractors in Somerset. Here you can access useful resources, newsletters, contact details and more.
Quality Payments: Have you had an email about the WES gateway criterion?
Community pharmacy contractors who did not receive confirmation that their pharmacy had met the Warranted Environment Specification (WES) gateway criterion...
Pregabalin & gabapentin – prescribing by EMIS GP practices
Changes to general practice clinical systems will have to be made ahead of 1st April 2019, when pregabalin and gabapentin...
Quality Payments: Only one week until the review point – are you meeting the gateway criteria?
The review date of the Quality Payments Scheme is now only one week away (Friday 15th February 2019) and community...
Quality Payments: Deadline for requesting editing rights for your NHS website profile
Community pharmacy contractors who do not have editing rights for their NHS website profile must request these via their premises-shared...
Flu vaccine ordering for 2019/20
Following on from a previous letter sent by NHS England, Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social...
NHS Long Term Plan Published
NHS England has today published the NHS Long Term Plan, setting out its priorities for healthcare over the next ten...
Quality Payments: NHS England guidance published for February 2019 review point
NHS England has today published guidance on the Quality Payments Scheme for the February 2019 review point. The guidance document provides information on how community pharmacy contractors can meet...
Latest PSNC News
Quality Payments: February review point
Today, Friday 15th February 2019, is the review point for the Quality Payments Scheme. Below is a summary of the...
February 15, 2019Guidance on pregabalin and gabapentin becoming CDs published
Community pharmacy teams are reminded that from 1st April 2019 pregabalin and gabapentin will be reclassified as Schedule 3 Controlled Drugs...
February 14, 2019Reclassification of gabapentin and pregabalin as CDs (February 2019)
This briefing has been compiled to support community pharmacy teams as the reclassification of pregabalin and gabapentin as Schedule 3 Controlled Drugs...
February 14, 2019PHE announce national ambitions to improve detection and treatment of CVD
A new coalition led by Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England has announced the first ever national ambitions to...
February 14, 2019Events
Falls prevention booking ref 48178
Wednesday, 27 February, 2019, 19.30 - 21.30
Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter. EX6 7UX
Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) www.cppe.ac.uk/programmes/l/falls-w-01
Clinical medication review study day booking ref 48188
Sunday, 10 March, 2019, 09.30 - 16.30
Holiday Inn, Deane Gate Ave, Taunton TA1 2UA
Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) www.cppe.ac.uk/programmes/l/medrev-w-01
Mental health and wellbeing booking ref 48087
Sunday, 28 April, 2019, 09:45-16.45
Holiday Inn, Deane Gate Ave, Taunton TA1 2UA
Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) www.cppe.ac.uk/programmes/l/mentalwell-w-01