Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Local Pharmaceutical Committee
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LOCAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMMITTEE
“Community Pharmacy – the public’s first choice for health care in the community”
1.30pm 11th May 2016
Open Meeting
Minutes
The Holiday Inn, M40 Junction 4, Handy Cross,
High Wycombe, HP11 1TL
Chair: Pankaj Shah
Apologies: Gary Warner (PSNC Regional Rep) / Action1 / Welcome and Introductions: Ron Newell (Healthwatch)
2 / Minutes of previous meeting
Start an action log with any items not completed from the minutes of the last meeting. SA to ask Julie Ballinger for an update on the green bag project.
SA to contact JB about the sick day rule cards- are GPs giving them out to patients yet?
Blood in pee – some leaflets sent out to CPs
SA to send questions for Healthwatch newsletter
Facebook blog Community Pharm PSNC
SA –remind the contractors about the SCR training on Wed 18 May 2016 at 6.30pm Holiday Inn, Handy Cross. / SA
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3 / Healthwatch Update
Phil is acting CEO. Richard has now left. New CEO to start in June 2016. RN is a member of TV Education and Strategy Board which covers Training, Commissioning, Pharmacist Pre-registration and is a member of the TV urgent care network
Professional Records Standards Body- national organisation Mental Health - Patient rep of the board – section patient use, medication given, why, dosage and where they get them from. Would like Pharmacists involved. RN will send us details. Consultation coming out locally then nationally for consultation and RN will make sure we are on the list.
4 / NHS England area update
Time table of the flu commissioning, SA to contact Marian Basra to ask when the Flu meetings will be.
David Smith Oxford CCG is Head of the Sustainability and Transformation plan. SA to contact David Smith and ask if he can attend the next LPC meeting. Further details of the plan can be viewed on the link below.
http://psnc.org.uk/the-healthcare-landscape/sustainability-and-transformation-plans / SA
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5 / Bucks NHS Smokefree Support Service, Clare Hodsdon, Team Lead joined the meeting.
3 years ago there were 16% quitters through CPs.
This dropped to 6-7% this year. Bucks target for 2016-17 is 2,000 smokers.
Electronic cigarettes on the NHS? Only when we have a licenced medicines regulated e cigarette.
The training is now nationally led through the SET –this means the training will be the same wherever you are and you are able to take the qualification anywhere. Disadvantage- The training takes a long time to do on line.
Smokefree offers a choice of 4 supervison sessions a year. You only need to attend one session. This is a half- day practical session.
CO testing –Contractors are paid. A Contractor should buy their own CO monitors butalthough Bucks Smokefree may have some spare ones.
NCSCT www.ncsct.co.uk
Next training dates – on the website.
Clare has offered to put on some support training. LPC will fund an evening event and SA to arrange sponsorship.
There is a Smokefree newsletter.
Step by step log of how to claim. Claim on Pharmoutcomes and must send the monitoring form back to Smokefree. Claims are paid quarterly. Paid for quits and non quits.
Pharmoutcomes- claim NRT.
PGD Champix –Hillingdon
MC/NV to liase with Claire to organise the meeting
Claire can do : Tuesday June 7th, Tuesday 28th June and Tuesday 12th July.
First date too soon to advertise, SA not available on 28th June. / NV/MC
6 / Pharmacy Cuts Campaign
SA to write to the 5 Bucks MPs on behalf of the Bucks LPC.
SA to send an invitation to the drop in day at Portcullis House on 24 May 2016.
If have reduced payments then there would have to be reduction in staff or reduction in working hours. / SA
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7 / LPC Dashboard (MUR Statistics and activity)
http://psnc.org.uk/funding-and-statistics/nhs-statistics/mur-statistics/
8 / CCA report
9 / Any Other Business/Expectations for the meeting met
Date of next meeting is Wednesday 22nd June 2016