Information for Pharmacies across West Yorkshire

Important Update to Bricanyl Turbohaler: 

The inhaler device for Bricanyl 500 microgram Turbohaler has changed in the UK from a Mark 2, to a Mark 3 Turbohaler device. Healthcare Professionals should be aware of the differences between these two versions of Turbohaler: 

• The new Bricanyl Mark 3 Turbohaler has a lower airflow resistance than the Mark 2 Turbohaler (which means that people need to inhale fasterto achieve the same lung deposition).
  • If checking inspiratory flow, healthcare professionals should use the ‘Turbohaler S (Symbicort)’ setting on an In-Check DIAL G16 Inspiratory Flow Meter rather than the ‘Turbohaler (Pulmicort)’ setting
• Changes to the physical appearance of the new Bricanyl Mark 3 Turbohaler are:
• It now has a dose counter rather than a cog wheel dose indicator
• It contains 120 doses rather than 100 doses in the Mark 2 Turbohaler 

This change in Bricanyl Turbohaler aligns it with the design and airflow resistance of Symbicort Turbohaler.

NHSmail - Accounts Automatically De-Activated 

All users of NHSmail (both premises accounts and personal NHSmail accounts) are reminded that NHSmail accounts that are not utilised for 90 days, will be de-activated and will be permanently deleted after a further 90 days. 

Password will also need to be changed at least every 90 days and you will receive several email reminders to do so before your password expires. You will need to ensure your account remains active by changing your password at least every 90 days otherwise it may be de-activated or removed from the service. 

Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire recommend that each contractor logs into pharmacy premises NHSmail as an essential daily task to get vital contractual communications from NHS England, NHS Business Services Authority and Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire.  This will enable the pharmacy to keep up to date with communications and will also prevent the pharmacy NHSmail account from being deactivated. 

Further information on NHSmail can be found on the PSNC website here: https://psnc.org.uk/contract-it/pharmacy-it/nhs-mail/.

Scholarship opportunity for MSc/PG Dip Clinical Pharmacy (Community) 

The University of Bradford, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences is pleased to offer one scholarship for the MSc/PGDip Clinical Pharmacy (Community) Programme. The scholarship is £1400 applied as a fee discount in year 1 of the programme, and £1400 in year 2 of the programme, subject to satisfactory academic progress. 

Applications are open to pharmacists assessed as home, UK students, registered with the GPhC and working as a pharmacist in a patient facing capacity in the UK.  The closing date for scholarship applications is the 21^st January 2019. 

Further information about the programme can be found on the following link: https://www.bradford.ac.uk/courses/pg/clinical-pharmacy-community/. 

Completion of the Scholarship application form can be achieved by clicking on the ‘scholarships’ link which is further down the programme information page under the heading ‘Fees, finance and scholarships’.  The date of entry year is 2018/19 and the programme is MSc/PG Dip Clinical Pharmacy (Community) to enable completion of the application form.

Suicide Prevention e-Learning 

Health Education England / Public Health England have produced an e-Learning resource for the health, social care and voluntary sector workforce.  The purpose of the programme is to support the ambition of reducing the stigma associated with suicide, to help everyone see that simply asking someone how they are and talking about suicide can really help. The briefing below includes further information. 

Suicide Prevention Briefing 

The learning can be accessed here:  www.nwyhelearning.nhs.uk/elearning/HEE/SuicidePrevention/index.html.

Quality Payments Information

Quality Payments Scheme-Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) 

To meet this quality criterion contractors must meet two requirements:

1.      On the day of the review, the pharmacy is a Healthy Living Pharmacy level 1 (self-assessment). 

Contractors are reminded that if their pharmacy was accredited as an HLP Level 1 locally or through the profession led self-assessment process this accreditation is only valid for two years. Therefore, if contractors were accredited before 16^th February 2017, the will need to formally re-accredit their pharmacy through the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) as an HLP to meet the quality criterion on the day of the review (15^th February 2019). 

 2.      On the day of the review 80% of staff working at the pharmacy (including pharmacy professionals) that provide healthcare advice to the public have successfully completed the CPPE children’s oral health training assessment. 

The CPPE Children’s oral health video and e-assessment can be accessed on the pharmacy Quality Payments Scheme page on the CPPE website.  https://www.cppe.ac.uk/services/quality-payments 

Further information about the HLP Quality Criterion can be found at https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/essential-services/quality-payments-healthy-living-pharmacy-hlp-self-assessment/.

Quality Payments Scheme- NSAID Audit 

For contractors to meet this quality criterion they must assess all patients aged 65 years or over who present a prescription for any oral NSAID or cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX2) selective inhibitor (this does not include patients prescribed aspirin) and check if they have been prescribed gastro-protection, if this is not the case then these patients should be referred to a prescriber for a review. 

Contractors must collect data for two weeks with a minimum of ten patients participating in the audit. In cases where there is difficulty in finding 10 patients to participate, the audit should be extended to four weeks after which contractors can submit the data with the number of patients they have if less than ten. 

Where a contractor is unable to complete the NSAID audit due to the fact that they have not identified any eligible patients during the audit period the contractor should send an email to the NHSBSA Provider Assurance Team following the process outlined by PSNC accessed here: https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/essential-services/quality-payments/quality-payments-nsaids-audit/. 

Further information about the audit and how to submit the data please see: https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/essential-services/quality-payments/quality-payments-nsaids-audit/.

Quality Payments Scheme- Risk Management 

The risk management quality criterion states that, on the day of the review 80% of registered pharmacy professionals working at the pharmacy have satisfactorily completed the CPPE Risk Management training.  This quality criterion applies to all registered pharmacy professionals including pharmacy technicians and locums working at the pharmacy. 

The CPPE risk management guide and e-assessment can be accessed on the pharmacy Quality Payments Scheme on the CPPE website: https://www.cppe.ac.uk/services/quality-payments. 

The pharmacy MUST ALSO have available for inspection at the review point, 15th February 2019, at premises level, an example of a risk review that the pharmacy team at the premises have drawn up for a risk in that pharmacy that has been identified and prioritised with identified risk minimisation actions that the pharmacy team is taking. 

Further information and templates to complete the risk management can be found at https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/essential-services/quality-payments/quality

payments-risk-management/

Further information about the Quality Payments Scheme can be found in the NHS guidance here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/primarycare/pharmacy/framework/pqp/ and the PSNC website: https://psnc.org.uk/servicescommissioning/essential-services/quality-payments/. 

If you have any questions about Quality Payments or would like any specific support around any of the criteria, please contact Bushra Effendi by email bushra@cpwy.org or by telephone on 07793 218 060.