Published: 23/08/19

Infrastructure Support - Staff Training

This circular provides NHS Boards and community pharmacy contractors with details of the financial support being made available for staff training for two time periods 1 November 2018 – 31 March 2019 and 1 April 2019 – 31 October 2019.

Circular PCA(P)(2018)11 set out the details of financial support for staff training available to community pharmacy contractors for courses undertaken/completed in the 2018/19 financial year up until 31 October 2018. This circular carries over these arrangements for the 2019/20 financial year and also captures courses that were undertaken during the period 1 November 2018 - 31 March 2019 that have not yet been claimed for in 2018/19.

Funding for staff training will be met from the centrally held Pharmaceutical Services line.

The courses for which support funding is available are:

• Pharmacy Services Level 2: NVQ/SVQ;

• Pharmacy Services Level 3: NVQ/SVQ;

• Accredited Checking Technician: NPA Accuracy in Dispensing Training Module or equivalent; and

• SQA Professional Development Award (PDA) in Final Accuracy Checking by Pharmacy Technicians