Community Pharmacy Devon

19/01/2026

🌟 Kickstart Your 2026 With Our Antidepressant NMS Update Event! 🌟

Delivering the New Medicines Service and ready for a refresher — plus the new antidepressant expansion?

Join us in Exeter on 27th January 2026 for an inspiring, practical evening built just for community pharmacy teams.

🧠 What’s on the agenda?

✔️ Key contractual updates
✔️ A high‑impact mental health update from Chris Todd, Lead Pharmacist at Devon Partnership Trust
✔️ Real‑world case discussions
✔️ Expert hosting by Tom Kallis
🍽️ Hot food included!

👥 All pharmacy team members welcome.
⏰ 6:30 pm — Registration & food
⏰ 7:15–9:00 pm — Workshop
📍 Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford
We can’t wait to kick off our 2026 training & development programme with you.
✨ Don’t miss it!

Providing the New Medicines Service and want a clinical update (and fantastic CPD) for the new, expanded ‘depression’ arm of the service?

13/01/2026

Simone contacted TALKWORKS after experiencing prolonged grief following the passing of her mother. Through working with one of our therapists, she was able to understand her emotions more and work through the difficulties that she was experiencing: https://orlo.uk/lyggg

13/01/2026

Pharmacies are a one stop shop for your healthcare needs, helping you to get care quickly while reducing pressure on GP surgeries and emergency departments.
To find your nearest pharmacy visit: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/pharmacy/find-a-pharmacy/

13/01/2026

Your pharmacist can provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions - without you seeing a GP.

Think pharmacy first and get seen by your local community pharmacy team.

08/01/2026

Providing the New Medicines Service and want a clinical update (and fantastic CPD) for the new, expanded ‘depression’ arm of the service? Then look no further than our Mental Health NMS Update event in Exeter on 27th January 2026.

We will host an evening event covering contractual service updates, a whistle-stop mental health update (tailored to community pharmacy teams from a local secondary care mental health expert) and case discussion of real-world scenarios that could happen in your pharmacy. As always there will be hot food and all members of the pharmacy team are welcome to attend.

Book a place here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-health-nms-update-event-tickets-1977384578504?aff=oddtdtcreator or scan the QR code.

30/12/2025

✍️ Poll on patient abuse and other challenges 🤬📊

Community Pharmacy England needs your help to measure the extent to which pharmacy teams encounter abuse from patients.

A short survey gives you the opportunity to feed directly into the Committee’s important work to push for further improvements and support for the sector.

Share your views before 22nd January 👉 https://bit.ly/3YzpPdU

16/12/2025

A new awareness raising campaign was launched last week to help improve the public’s understanding of the different services available as the NHS heads into winter. The campaign features a short film, titled ‘24 hours NOT in A&E’, focusing on pharmacy, NHS 111, the NHS App and general practice showcasing the things that these services can help with – quickly and easily, you can view this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTp6pn0t-g

There are also campaign resources that can be accessed here: https://campaignresources.dhsc.gov.uk/campaigns/nhs-primary-care/nhs-service-access/

Follow four people with four different health concerns as they get the NHS care they need – quickly and easily, without A&E. Get the right care, in the righ...

24/11/2025

Patients urged to use pharmacy services this winter to ease pressure on NHS

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/patients-urged-to-use-pharmacy-services-this-winter-to-ease-pressure-on-nhs/htwn65d

Watch the latest from ITV News - Pharmacies offer treatments for common winter conditions to give people faster access to care and reduce the strain on GPs and hospitals.

12/11/2025

Exhausted pharmacists have laid bare the human cost of a crisis gripping England’s chemists, fuelled by high workloads, problems sourcing medicines and insufficient funding.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2132678/pharmacy-crisis-NHS-chemist

EXCLUSIVE: A major survey has laid bare the human cost of pressure on the chemists.

11/11/2025

Pharmacists are on the frontline of medicines safety – and your reports make all the difference

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dr-alison-cave-pharmacists-are-on-the-frontline-of-medicines-safety-and-your-reports-make-all-the-difference

As part of , the MHRA’s Chief Safety Officer reflects in The Pharmacist on the vital role pharmacists play in keeping medicines and medical devices safe.

10/11/2025

If you have a sore throat, remember, your pharmacist can now provide some prescription medicine without seeing your GP. (5yrs and over). Visit: https://ow.ly/fujv50VCg62

05/11/2025

Pharmacists are trained to spot so-called ‘red flag symptoms’ and it is quite common for pharmacists to signpost you to fellow health care professionals or even make formal referrals into NHS care pathways.

It takes years of training to be a pharmacist. But you can usually get an appointment with one in no time at all, at your local pharmacy!