Nottinghamshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee

03/11/2025

❄️ Community Pharmacy England would like to hear your views and concerns for the winter season ❄️

You can take part in their 'Winter Readiness Poll' here ⬇️

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BZNJP88

31/10/2025

Huge thanks to Gurminder Singh, owner and pharmacist at Singh Pharmacy in West Bridgford for chatting to Summaya Mughal at BBC Radio Nottinghamshire yesterday about the Pharmacy Contraception Service and addition of Emergency Contraception.

🎧 You can fast forward the show and listen to the interview at 2:10.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l1m7

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31/10/2025

Community pharmacies can are now offering expanded NHS services to make emergency contraception and support for people prescribed antidepressants more accessible in local communities.

A range of FREE resources is available from Community Pharmacy England to promote the PCS and NMS to your customers in your pharmacy. You can download them here:

PCS resources 🔗 https://psncorg-my.sharepoint.com/personal/sharlyn_beltran_cpe_org_uk/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fsharlyn%5Fbeltran%5Fcpe%5Forg%5Fuk%2FDocuments%2FShared%20with%20LPCs%2FPCS%20resources&ga=1

NMS resources 🔗 https://cpe.org.uk/national-pharmacy-services/advanced-services/nms/

30/10/2025

⭐️ Huge congratulations to Raza Ali and all the team at Newgate Lane Pharmacy in Mansfield on winning Pharmacy Team of the Year at this year's Independent Pharmacy Awards from all of the team at Community Pharmacy Nottinghamshire! ⭐️

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28/10/2025

‼️ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 ❄️

NHSE has now released a wide variety of FREE materials including posters, social media assets and a campaign toolkit to enable pharmacies to successfully promote Pharmacy First this winter.

You can download the materials here ⬇️ and encourage your local community to 'think pharmacy first' over the coming weeks and months!

https://campaignresources.dhsc.gov.uk/campaigns/help-us-help-you-primary-care/think-pharmacy-first/

27/10/2025

‼️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ‼️
𝗣𝗖𝗦 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗠𝗦 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼-𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝟮𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗰𝘁

NHS England has confirmed in an email sent today (27th October) to all pharmacies in England that the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) will go live on Wednesday this week (29th October), as had originally been planned.

The planned changes to the New Medicine Service (NMS) will also take place, as planned, on that day.

Find out more here ⬇️
https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/pcs-and-nms-expansions-to-go-live-29th-oct/

NHS England has confirmed in an email sent today (27th October 2025) to all pharmacies in England that the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) will go live on Wednesday this week (29th October), as had originally been planned. The planned changes to the New Medicine Service (NMS

24/10/2025

Today we're congratulating Jas Kaur Lali, Superintendent Pharmacist at Turners Pharmacy in Sneinton and all of her community pharmacy colleagues after the company (which also owns Carlton Hill Pharmacy in Carlton) won 'Sustainable Pharmacy of the Year' at the recent Pharmacy Business Awards 2025.

Well done to everyone involved, what a fantastic achievement!

23/10/2025

𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗖𝗦 𝗼𝗻-𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿

Community Pharmacy England held a webinar on Thursday 9th October to discuss the recent changes to the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS).
The key updates to the service include the addition of oral emergency contraception and the expanded role of pharmacy technicians.

These changes are due to be implemented next week (Wednesday 29th October). As such, we highly recommend that all pharmacists watch this video before starting the EC service as it will answer all the questions you have about implementation.

𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 🔗 https://cpe.org.uk/our-work/updates-events/our-webinars/emergency-contraception-and-the-pcs-on-demand-webinar/

23/10/2025

Our roving reporter and services implementation lead, Mike Jones, is at Leicester Tigers today to represent community pharmacy for Nottinghamshire & Nottingham City at the National Pioneer Development Programme for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams...over to you Mike to tell us more!

22/10/2025

‼️ 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 ‘𝗴𝗼-𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲’ 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗖𝗦 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗠𝗦 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 ‼️

A quick reminder to contractors that next Wednesday 29th October, is the planned ‘go live’ date for the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) and the New Medicine Service (NMS).

NHS England will confirm ahead of this date whether the necessary changes have been made to IT systems to all changes to commence from this date
Click the link below from Community Pharmacy England to see the changes that are planned to happen to both services from this date.

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/one-week-to-go-until-planned-go-live-for-pcs-and-nms-changes/

Next Wednesday (29th October 2025), is the planned ‘go live’ date for the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) and the New Medicine Service (NMS). NHS England will confirm ahead of this date whether the necessary changes have been made to IT systems to allow the changes to comme...

22/10/2025

Huge thanks to the amazing Deepak Bilakhia from Carrington Pharmacy who has been running a flu vaccination clinic at the Indian Community Centre Association (ICCA) for people who were coming together to celebrate Diwali.

This was in response to the UK Health Security Agency National and NHSE stating that 64.7% of over 65s identifying as Asian or Asian British took up the flu vaccine in 2024 - compared to 79.1% for white British people in the same age group.

Deepak and his team wanted to support this age group to get their flu jabs ahead of the Hindu festival of light. His objective was to reach people who were sceptical about the vaccines.

Bravo Deepak - you're truly an outstanding role model for community pharmacy across Nottinghamshire and beyond!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj97jnzr830o