Not every presenting sore throat is a throat infection and therefore, not every sore throat needs an antibiotic.

Your next Parcelforce prescription collection is coming up on Thursday, 18th July 2024.

In this week’s roundup... Instalment Prescribing - Vision GP IT System Issue and When Another Healthcare Professional Refers into Community Pharmacy.

At CPS, our Community Pharmacy Health Board committees are at the forefront of local service negotiation. Currently, a number of our CPHB Committees have vacancies available for Associate Members for the term 2022-25.

Our colleagues at National Services Scotland (NSS) would like to share their message about the AMS Digital Programme.

To apply for Emergency Care Summary (ECS) access please click the button below. From this link you will need to select which health board (NHS Board) you require ECS access for. From there you can then look through the options on each health boards web page to find out how to apply for ECS access.

Referrals into community pharmacy from other healthcare professionals are becoming more frequent as community pharmacy services become more well known. This may result in an increase in recommendations to patients from other healthcare professionals when referring them to the community pharmacy for care.

We have been made aware of an issue with a particular version of the "Vision" GP prescribing system that is used in some (but not all) sites using the software in Scotland.

For the attention of Community Pharmacy (CP) Independent Prescriber (IP) Employee Pharmacists on Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) / NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Funded Places from 2021.

Our colleagues at NES have shared this useful information for any CPs starting their IP Training or planning to undertake their IP Training in the future.

Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) invites you to take part in our 2024 Communication Survey. Your feedback is essential in helping us improve our services.

In this week’s roundup... Sexual and reproductive health survey, updated and digitised Disclosure of rape or sexual assault (SARCS) guidance, the new scanning centre is now fully operational at the Gyle, and your next prescription collection date is the Thursday 4th July 2024.

Your next Parcelforce prescription collection is coming up on Thursday, 4th July 2024.

Researchers from Edinburgh University and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) have produced a Scottish Government-funded survey for community pharmacists about their practice around SRH in the community pharmacy.

This Circular advises community pharmacy contractors that the two UK-wide Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) for Clarithromycin antibiotic products due to expire on 21 June 2024 have now been extended until Friday 19 July 2024.

The Community Pharmacy Scotland Newsletter has now been released. If you qualify as an Associate Member and you would like the eNewsletter sent directly to your inbox every Thursday at 6:15pm, then please sign up.

The new scanning centre is now fully operational at the Gyle now, of which your Parcel Force bags are pre-labelled for.

CP IPs and trainees can check certificate details on TURAS. Details on the attachment below.

Our colleagues at the Scottish Government have asked us to disseminate the following information to pharmacy teams:

The following are the Top Three items currently under discussion and review by your CPS Board. There is no specific detail, yet, as these are currently “works in progress”. Further detail will follow as available.