Community Pharmacy Derbyshire

24/12/2025

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas on behalf of the team and committee members here at Community Pharmacy Derbyshire!

22/12/2025

𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺?

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire has confirmed to us that the job vacancies page on their website has a small section where they can add job details for the private, voluntary and independent sector - and that includes community pharmacies!

If you would like to add any vacancy details for roles within your pharmacy, please email: Ddicb.joinedupcareers@nhs.net and they will help you.

https://joinedupcareers.co.uk/

19/12/2025

𝗙𝗹𝘂 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 – 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀

Don't forget about the various assets now available to pharmacies to promote vaccination services in the run up to Christmas and New Year.

The resources are FREE and you can download them here for use on your pharmacy's website and social media platforms and also within your pharmacy itself ⬇️

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

Assets to support the flu vaccination drive: countdown to Christmas

18/12/2025

🏆 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗽 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀!

The awards are open to any apprentices within health and social care (clinical and non-clinical) across Joined Up Care Derbyshire – whether they’re in an NHS organisation, care home, community pharmacy, GP practice, or the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.

Please submit your nomination by 12 January 2026. Winners will be announced during National Apprenticeship Week in February 2026.

You can complete the nomination form here ⬇️
🔗 https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO42yuT-ThgEpOovS4irkfDY9UNkE4NURKMTdKQ1lZNklOODA3NTNBUDJCTi4u&route=shorturl

17/12/2025

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗹𝘂 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀

A quick reminder of the upcoming community flu immunisation clinics for primary and secondary school pupils (and electively home-educated children) organised by the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).

16/12/2025

𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦: 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

In the first half of 2026, Kriss Owen (GP) Diabetes Clinical Lead for NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Carmen Villegas-Galvez,
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist with Special Interest in Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Conditions will be delivering the Exemplify Diabetes Education meeting series
across Derby and Derbyshire.

This is a virtual modular meeting series delivered live with plenty of interaction, designed to meet the varying educational needs of clinicians across Derbyshire and carries CPD accreditation.

𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦:
𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝟭: (𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝗽𝗺 – 𝟮:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺)
• Type 2 Diabetes definition, aetiology and pathophysiology
• Symptoms, diagnosis
• Complications
• Principles of management for patient-centred care
• Case studies/discussion
• Q and A

You can register your interest for this meeting here ⬇️
🔗 https://meetnovonordisk.com/event/MEET25883/exemplify-type-2-diabetes-education/page/home

𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝟮: (𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝗽𝗺 – 𝟮:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺)
• Treatment options
• Guidelines overview
• Case study/discussion
• Q and A

𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝟯: (𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝗽𝗺 – 𝟮:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺)
• Managing cardiovascular risk in Type 2 diabetes
• Overview of current cardiovascular data sets
• Principles of managing cardiovascular risk
• Case studies/discussion
• Q and A

𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗞𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲: (𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝗽𝗺 – 𝟯𝗽𝗺)
• Introduction to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
• CKD aetiology and pathophysiology in type 2 diabetes
• Clinical Guidelines Type 2 Diabetes and chronic kidney disease
• Case Studies/discussion
• Q and A

This meeting series is open to all clinicians in Derbyshire in primary, community, secondary care, and in community pharmacies. Please save the dates in your diaries. This meeting series is organised and supported by Novo Nordisk Limited. All teaching will be delivered by Derbyshire clinicians.

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.

Watch the video here ⬇️

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

27/11/2025

The next decade offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform the community pharmacy sector into a cornerstone of the Government’s proposed Neighbourhood Health Service, says a report commissioned by Community Pharmacy England and published earlier this week.

The new report, ‘A Prescription for Success – the role of community pharmacy in delivering the 10 year plan for health‘, aligns the sector’s ambitions with those outlined in the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan, Fit for the Future. It also poses a series of crucial questions that must now be addressed to enable community pharmacy to realise its full potential.

You can read the report here ⬇️

🔗https://cpe.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/A-Prescription-for-Success-report.pdf

25/11/2025

𝗙𝗹𝘂 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 – 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀

In a bid to encourage flu vaccination (and other winter vaccinations) in the run up to Christmas, the DHSC has released a variety of national communications that pharmacies can use to promote vaccination services.

The resources are FREE and you can download them here for use on your pharmacy's website and social media platforms and also within your pharmacy itself ⬇️

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

Assets to support the flu vaccination drive: countdown to Christmas

20/11/2025

🎉 Huge congratulations to our chair, Ben Eaton, on winning the Independent Pharmacies Association 'Services Champion of the Year' 2025 award! 🎉

Pharmacist and procurement manager for Dean & Smedley, Ben has set up numerous services for patients over the years. During the awards ceremony, he was cited for his outstanding work over the last 12 months as the pharmacy's clinical lead for two particular services: near patient warfarin testing and flu vaccination.

Excellent work Ben, a very well deserved award!

07/11/2025

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗛𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗛𝗦.𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁?

Far more than just a name change, NHS.net Connect also introduces a new platform which all organisations will migrate to. The platform will retain all current functionality, alongside introducing a suite of exciting new features.

As a pharmacy owner you must ensure that your shared NHS.net mailbox is accessible and linked to at least two staff members with personal NHS.net accounts. To keep accounts active, staff must log in at least once every 30 days.

Find out more here about this important development here ⬇️

🔗 https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/nhsmail-is-becoming-nhs-net-connect-what-pharmacy-teams-need-to-know/