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Northants and MK LPC News June 2021

Gluten Free consultation process

In October NHSE&I  confirmed extension of the Gluten Free Food Service in Northamptonshire until 31st March 2021.  We would like...

Ramadan

Ramadan – coronavirus resources for pharmacy teams

Amiodarone

An audit has identified that in Northamptonshire there are some patients on long term amiodarone who are not under cardiology...

Giles Owen, Northamptonshire CCG Deputy Director and Head of Prescribing & Medicines Management has previously highlighted in Tablet Press that 4...

Covid-19 lateral flow testing for pharmacy staff

PSNC have published a news story  to highlight the NHS England and NHS Improvement letter to all primary care contractors...

Maternity Services MK

Dr. Sanhita Chakrabarti  Clinical Lead Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group requests that pharmacy colleagues in Milton Keynes advise expectant mothers to...

Updated Covid-19 SOP

Community Pharmacy in the context of Coronavirus (Covid-19) SOP has been updated (26.10.20). The changes are highlighted in yellow. C0796-covid-19-community-pharmacy-sop-v4

Guidance on Hepatitis C Antibody testing service

Guidance on the Community Pharmacy Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service

PQS 2020/21 Part 2 Infection Control/ AMS

https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/pharmacy-quality-scheme/pqs-2020-21-part-2/ We have had a number of contractor queries highlighting difficulty identifying local antibiotic formularies in relation to the PQS...

PQS 2020/21

PQS announced for first part of 2020/21 July 13, 2020 A new Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) for the first part...

Flu Vaccination Service

For all Flu Vaccination FAQs and specification, PGD, training requirements and more please see https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/advanced-services/flu-vaccination-service/flu-vaccination-faqs/