News Briefs 2025
Christmas and New Year Rota for Opening Hours for North Cumbria * Advance Service – New Joint Covid 19 & Flu Vaccination Service Spec published with new fees 2026/27 * CPPE launches Digital healthcare learning gateway * Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Network Sessions – January 2026 * HLP Champions – Winter campaign toolkit now live * Christmas Message
North Cumbria Pharmacy gluten-free prescription update * NHS Prescription Charges Frozen for Second Year * Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) – Winter Bulletin * Advance Payments Update – Now include Flu & Covid-19 activity * HLP (Healthy Living Pharmacy) MANDATORY CAMPAIGN
REMINDER – Have you completed the 2025 mandatory workforce survey? * Reminder PCS and NMS expansions to go-live 29th Oct * MANDATORY HLP CAMPAIGN – World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2025: 18-24th November * The Flu Vaccination Local Links Model * REMINDER – Council Employee flu vaccination programme 25/26 * NHS mail is becoming NHS.net Connect
HLP – MANDATORY – 25/26 National Health Campaigns * REMINDER – Mandatory – Annual Workforce Survey * COVID 19 Posters to Explain the Vaccine Eligiility * New scan-to-shelf digital medicines survey * Invitation to independent pharmacy owners to join our CPE committee * GPhC Consultation – Draft Initial Education and Training Standards for Pharmacy Technician
News Brief 25th September 2025
Mandatory – Annual Workforce Survey – Open! * New Resources for the Childhood Flu Vac service * Expression of Interest Cumberland Council – Small Aids Living Equipment * Deadline Tracker September 2025 * HLP – Resources for Winter Campaigns & Dementia Training details
Registration for New Children’s Flu Vaccination Service Now Open * Community Pharmacy Annual General Meeting 10th September 2025, 7pm * Upcoming Changes to the MYS Portal – 21st August 2025 * **IMPORTANT** PQS (Pharmacy Quality Scheme) – Antimicrobial Stewardship: Clinical Audit for 2025/26 * North Cumbria LPC Grant Levy Holiday from April 2025 to December 2025 inclusive * Deadline Tracker August 2025 * HLP (Healthy Living Champions) Network Sessions September 2025
**REMINDER CPAF Screening Questionnaire** Complete by 31st July 2025 * Proposed Changes to Prescribing Gluten-Free Bread Rolls, Flour Mix * Flu Vaccination Service 2025/26 Spec Published * FLU VACCINATIONS – National Booking System available for Pharmacies * Christmas Bank Holiday Cover * Pharmacy First – Ensure you claim your June consultations by the End of July 2025 * Children Flu Vac service to be launched in October * Updating your Profile Manager * **HLP (Healthy Living Pharmacy) ** Every Life Matters – RESOURCES FOR AUGUST CAMPAIGN
** HIGH IMPORTANTANCE ** North Cumbria LPC Special Meeting to Approve Amendments to the LPC Constitution * REMINDER – Blood Pressure & ABPM (Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor) Training for Pharmacy Teams * Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) complete by 31st July * A New Shortened DMS (Discharge Medicines Service) Claim Journey * Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Programme: Autumn/ Winter 2025/26 * PQS Recorded Presentation and other Resources
DMS (Discharge Medicine Service) MYS Portal to come into effect from 6th July 2025 * Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) Spec & PGDs Draft Updates * Autumn/Winter 2025-26 Flu and C19 Vaccination Programme Timings * Blood Pressure & ABPM (Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor) Training for Pharmacy Teams * New application route to rearrange core opening hours * Deadline Tracker July 2025 * HLP (Healthy Living Pharmacy)
NHS 111 Pharmacy First Referrals * Provision of C-19 vacs from October 2025 * NHS England launches vaccine IT system framework * Blood Pressure & ABPM (Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor) Training for Pharmacy Teams * Deadline Tracker June 2025 * REMINDER – A month to complete the Data Security & Protection Toolkit 2025
Pharmacy First Bundling Requirement June 2025 * IMPORTANT: End of antiviral medicine prescribing for 2024/25 influenza season * LFD (Lateral Flow Device) – Changes to Patient Cohort Eligibility * IMPORTANT: Funding for Community Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship Programme 2025 * EOI (Expression of Interest) Vaccination Training * HLP (Healthy Living Champions) Network Sessions June 2025
Community Pharmacy North Cumbria Update * The Aspiration payment window is now open * Deadline Tracker * Stop Smoking Programme – Varenicline Pathway * NMS – Making your end of month claim * HLP Champions – Dementia Awareness Week and Refresher Training
Cumberland Council Services Update * Community Pharmacy England presents the new CPCF arrangements * CPE Funding Settlement Information Events to Book On * PQS 2025/26 Action and Evidence Portfolio Workbook * C-19 LFD Service * Health Innovation NENC: Lipids & FH Meeting * Tirzepatide Webinar
Easter Bank Holiday Rota 2025 * Local Minor Ailments ‘Think Pharmacy First’ Evening Training * Managing Vaccine Services from April 2025 * Reminder: Mandatory NHSmail Multi-Factor Authentication * Health Innovation NENC: Lipids & FH Meeting
Pressures Survey extended until 10th March 2024 * Annual Letter for FLU 2025/26 published * Tax Credit Exemptions * NHSmail Security Update * Pharmacy First – Can you treat patients who do not live in England * Local Minor Ailments ‘Think Pharmacy First’ Online Training * No Smoking Day is Fast Approaching * Cumberland Stop Smoking Website * HLP (Healthy Living Champions) Network Sessions March 2024
Levy Letter * Councils Stop Smoking Services * DOS (Directory of Service) Updated * NENC * Primary Care Collaborative Newsletter * CD Learning Bulletin * PrescQIPP information
Pharmacy First Updates * Pressures Survey 2025 * Security & Protection Toolkit 2025 Webinar * Letters to request Varenicline (Champix) & Bupropion * Planned MYS downtime * Reminder: Certificates of Conformity * Early Advanced Payment Timetable for 2025
Pharmacy First and the Minor Illness service * Bank Holiday Opening * Ringworm Increase in Young Men * Reminder: Verifying your NHS Profile Manager profile * Original Pack Dispensing Resources * Tirzepatide FAQs for ICBs and Patients * NHS Smartcard action required * HLP Next year Meetings * Thank You to Our Pharmacy Staff * Christmas Message.
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