Nottinghamshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee

24/12/2025

You can get NHS treatment for a range of common conditions at your local pharmacy, usually without an appointment.

Most pharmacies can supply NHS medicine for conditions including sore throat, sinusitis, urinary tract infection (water infection), earache, impetigo and shingles (age restrictions apply).

Not only is this quicker and more convenient for you, it helps our hard working GP Practice teams.

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See link in comments for more details 👇

23/12/2025

📢 A wide range of NHS services are available direct from your pharmacy.

More than 200 community pharmacies locally can provide NHS medicines for seven common conditions through the Pharmacy First service. Depending on your age, this includes Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in women, earache, shingles, sinusitis, impetigo and sore throats.

Find out which pharmacies are open over the Christmas period via the link in the comments 👇

22/12/2025

We'd like to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas on behalf of the team and committee members here at Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire!

18/12/2025

🎤 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝘀𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!

Tune in to hear our chair Robert Severn and services implementation lead, Mike Jones, discuss the recent changes to the Pharmacy First Gateway Points and what they mean for pharmacy contractors and pharmacy teams.

Lots of top tips and professional insight as always but, sadly despite Kirsten Atkinson's best efforts, the duo wouldn't finish with a festive song for you all!

Please listen in when you get a spare 10 minutes, we really think you'll find some useful information.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5nLArH64o
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tJ8DlXtavBSAqasLHJF1o?si=2ffumYz5Qoe_Hw1wyuP5kw

Rob Severn, Chair of Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire, talks through the changes to the gateways on the 7 clinical pathway documents.

16/12/2025

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲

We know exactly how hard you and your team work to support your patients on a daily basis. We also know that many of you have experienced abuse from some of those patients.

Community Pharmacy England's recent 2025 Pharmacy Pressures Survey revealed that over half of those pharmacy professionals who completed the survey expressed that abuse from patients was a "serious concern".

If you face any type of abuse from patients, please don’t feel like you have to tolerate it. The following actions can be considered:

☎️ Call the police: Please report instances to the police who can provide appropriate support and take action where appropriate.
❌ Refuse to dispense the prescription: The pharmacy regulations permit this if a pharmacy owner or their staff (or other people at the premises) are threatened with or subject to violence or other criminal behaviour.
📧 Contact your LPC: Speak to your LPC who may be able to assist in handling the situation locally.

To help prevent such behaviour in the first place, CPE has produced posters that highlight the importance of treating pharmacy team members with kindness and respect. We will also keep working with CPE to raise awareness of this issue and pushing for other measures to help pharmacy owners and their teams.

You can download the posters here as well as reading further guidance from the RPA and GPC.

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/curbing-patient-abuse/

Pharmacy owners and their teams work hard to support local communities every day, but more than half of pharmacy staff reported that abuse from patients is a serious concern in the 2025 Pharmacy Pressures Survey. If you face any type of abuse from patients, please don’t feel like you have to toler...

11/12/2025

Change of date: 𝗡𝗛𝗦𝗘 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 (𝗠𝗘𝗖𝗖): 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 - 𝗧𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟭𝟲𝗧𝗛 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝟭.𝟯𝟬 -𝟯𝗽𝗺

Organised by the Vaccination and Screening Equalities Team, this session will showcase examples of how local teams across the NHS, local authorities, and the voluntary sector are applying MECC principles. You’ll also have the chance to share practice and learning with colleagues.

You can reserve your FREE place here ⬇️

🔗 https://www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/making-every-contact-count-mecc-webinar

04/12/2025

𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀: 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀

As part of its Funding & Reimbursement Shorts series, Community Pharmacy England’s in-house Drug Tariff and funding experts have created a new video on disallowed items.

You can view the video here ⬇️

🔗 https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/funding-reimbursement-shorts-disallowed-items/

25/11/2025

𝗙𝗹𝘂 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 – 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀

To encourage flu vaccination (and other winter vaccinations) during the run up to Christmas, a number of national communications have been distributed for pharmacies to use to promote vaccination services.

All of the resources are FREE and you can download them using the link below. We suggest adding them to your pharmacy's website and social media platforms as well as using throughout your pharmacy too ⬇️

🔗 https://campaignresources.dhsc.gov.uk/campaigns/vaccinations/winter-vaccinations/public-winter-vaccinations/flu-vaccination-drive-countdown-to-christmas/

21/11/2025

Hot on the heels of his Diwali flu vaccination support, Deepak Bilakhia, owner and pharmacist at Carrington Pharmacy, has taken part in a flu vaccination clinic for homeless people in Nottingham city centre.

What a fantastic team effort and another outstanding example of Integrated Neighbourhood Working in action!

20/11/2025

On behalf of all the team here at Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire, we’d like to thank pharmacists for taking part in the recent Community Pharmacy England 2025 Pharmacy Pressures Survey.

It is no surprise to any of us in the industry that the survey results were extremely discouraging with nearly 70% of pharmacy staff reporting that they are experiencing negative impacts on their mental health and wellbeing.

Everyone here at Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire is here to support whenever you need us. We wanted to share the resources that CPE and Pharmacist Support have made available to support pharmacy staff and their families. Please follow this link for more information
🔗 https://pharmacistsupport.org

A webinar on Wellbeing & Resilience will also be taking place soon – we’ll share details as soon as they are available.

13/11/2025

𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 - 𝗳𝗹𝘂 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮-𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀

NHS England - Midlands has created a wide variety of FREE resources for pharmacies to promote the flu vaccine for 2-3 year olds. The resources include social media assets, posters and flyers to share with nurseries and playgroups.

You can download the resources here ⬇️

🔗 https://www.england.nhs.uk/midlands/information-for-professionals/information-for-pharmacists/

12/11/2025

‼️ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

NHSE recently released lots of FREE materials including posters, social media assets, video shorts and a campaign toolkit to enable pharmacies to successfully promote Pharmacy First this winter.

One of the assets - see below - is designed to encourage women to think Pharmacy First when considering going on the pill.

You can download all the materials here ⬇️ and encourage your local community to 'think pharmacy first' this winter and beyond!