Delivering local pharmacy solutions in Sunderland

INCLUDED IN THIS Sunderland Pharmacy Times ISSUE: Spring 2019. Issue Three

Meet the committee: Part 2 Welcome to the third Sunderland LPC newsletter. Our Spring 2019 edition. Information and news items for Sunderland Community The aims of our newsletters are to try and keep you up to date with issues Pharmacies that affect you and to give you an overview of the work of the committee.

An update on events hosted Please let us know your views on our newsletter and send us any ideas on by Sunderland LPC the themes you would like included in future issues.

An update of the work of Sunderland LPC

Contact Sunderland LPC at:

Website: www.psnc.org.uk/sunderlandlpc/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @sunderlandlpc / @MarkSundLPC

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/SunderlandLPC/?locale2=en_GB

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Sunderland Local Pharmaceutical Committee

Meet the committee (Part Two)

In every issue of the newsletter we will provide a full list of the current Sunderland LPC membership (please see the back pages of the newsletter). In our Autumn 2018 Newsletter we included a ‘Meet the committee’ section and we provided an overview and pen picture of two of our committee members: Umesh Patel (Chair) and Raminder Sihota. We will also be including pen pictures of each committee member in subsequent editions. This follows on from our Annual Survey when some contractors stated that they would like to know more about the committee membership. The two members we would like to introduce to you in this edition are Kathryn Brown (Vice Chair) and Barrie Tudberry:

Kathryn Brown (Vice Chair)

Kathryn studied at Sunderland School of Pharmacy and registered as a pharmacist in 1990. Always one to tackle a challenge, she left the UK and volunteered to work in a refugee camp in Thailand, working as a pharmacist. A very different role to being in the UK - but a rewarding one. Further travels followed to Hawaii, Central America and Asia. Kathryn returned home in 1999.

Since returning to work in community pharmacy she has actively sought to provide the best care to the customers of community pharmacy, always being willing to take on new services and try new things. She has been an Area Manager with Rowlands Pharmacy for the last 14 years and is a real advocate for community pharmacy. Since re-joining Sunderland LPC three years ago, she has worked with the committee to raise the voice of community pharmacy locally and was elected as the Vice Chair of Sunderland LPC in 2017.

Kathryn passionately believes that community pharmacy has a vital role to play in the evolving NHS and is looking forward to seeing how she can work across Sunderland - and the region - to see this role developed.

Contact Details:

Kathryn Brown, Rowlands [email protected]

07917 168679

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Barrie Tudberry

Barrie graduated from The University of Nottingham in 2005 before moving back to his home town of Sunderland to pursue a varied career in community pharmacy with a large multiple. Barrie has worked across the north east and has worked in a range of roles, including roles as Pharmacist and Store Management.

Barrie is passionate about providing innovative community pharmacy services at a location and time that is convenient to patients and has specialised in leading various vaccination clinics including flu, travel vaccines, Meningitis B vaccine and HPV vaccination. The vaccination of two-year-old children has become second nature to him - after quickly learning that it is the parents that he needs to calm down first.

Barrie also has huge experience working with Care Home services including conducting on-site Pharmacist Advice visits to various care providing facilities. This experience has provided an opportunity to use this knowledge within the LPC when discussing community pharmacy and the care home environment.

Barrie’s main involvement with LPC has been in the shape of helping to make a valuable contribution to the work of the LPC EPS working group. This culminated in the facilitation of the very successful EPS workshops with GP staff at the Stadium of Light. He continues to develop his skills within the LPC and is currently taking a greater role by assisting the Treasurer with the financial business of the LPC.

Barrie feels that the continued success of Sunderland LPC relies on combining the knowledge of our hugely experienced committee members with the enthusiasm of the new members: fusing together all these talents will provide a great service to our community pharmacy contractors in Sunderland.

Contact Details

Barrie Tudberry, Boots UK Ltd. [email protected]

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Community Pharmacy: Useful Information

Primary Care Networks

You will be hearing a lot about Primary Care Networks in the next couple of years. But what are they? Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are an approach to strengthening and redesigning health and social care by bringing together a range of health and social care professionals to work together to provide enhanced personalised and preventative care for their local community. Primary care networks build on the core of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve. All sectors come together as a complete care community – drawn from GP surgeries, community, mental health and acute trusts, social care and the voluntary sector – to focus on local population needs and provide care closer to patients’ homes.

The foundation for the Primary Care Networks in Sunderland are, in the main, being developed through the All Together Better Alliance – which build on the work of the local vanguard. Sunderland LPC is working hard to ensure that the voice of community pharmacy is heard within this framework. We sit on the All Together Better Alliance pharmacy sub-group and have had a number of meetings where we exchange ideas on the potential key role that community pharmacy can play when supporting the health needs of local populations. It is essential that community pharmacy is part of any PCN and we need to ensure that there is a clear community pharmacy voice in each and every PCN – as the framework develops.

You will be hearing more from the committee on Primary Care Networks, as plans unfold and develop.

This NHS animation explains the PCNs and is a good place to start learning more about the vision for PCN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W19DtEsc8Ys

Further details about PCNs are also available at the PSNC website here: https://psnc.org.uk/the-healthcare-landscape/primary-care-networks-pcns/

We anticipate this being a key workstream for the LPC in the next two to three years.

DMIRS

As you will all now be aware, DMIRS (Digital Minor Illness Referral Service) has now been extended until the end of September 2019. This has been a very important service in terms of evidencing the ways in which community pharmacy can be further embedded within local services and can help alleviate demand on other key health services. This service has now been rolled out in other localities within England. Sunderland community pharmacies, as part of the original roll out, led the way on this and you should all be very proud of the role you have played in strengthening the role of community pharmacy. Mark Stephenson sits on the regional DMIRS steering group and there are plans afoot to small scale pilot an extension of DMIRS to include referrals from GP Practices. Again, another exciting and innovative development. This work will be undertaken in the near future and the LPC will keep you abreast of the work as it progresses.

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Webinars

Price Concessions webinar

PSNC held a webinar about price concessions on 5th March 2019; a recorded version of this webinar is now available.

During this webinar viewers were guided through the price concession process; from applying for a price concession to how prices are finalised and then communicated to pharmacy contractors and their teams.

Mike Dent (Director of Pharmacy Funding) and Suraj Shah (Drug Tariff and Reimbursement Manager) explained how price concessions are measured in the Margin Survey and the impact this has on the overall funding envelope. Finally, they explored the challenges of the current price concession system and discussed the principles of a fair system agreed by the PSNC Committee. Mike and Suraj also answered related questions at the end of the webinar.

Please see the link below for details on the webinar: https://psnc.org.uk/psncs-work/our-events/register-your-interest-in-our-webinar/price-concessions-webinar/ Events

DMIRS Training Session

Sunderland LPC hosted a CPRS (now known at the Digital Minor Illness Referral Service) training session at the Marriott Hotel last autumn. This session was well attended and was regarded as valuable by those who attended.

Sunderland LPC, along with other LPCs in the region, is working on hosting several important training sessions that will further support the provision of DMIRS. Whilst the session will be linked to DMIRS, it will largely be focused on ‘clinical history taking and assessment skills’. The session will have both breadth and depth and will be an important training opportunity, not only in relation to DMIRS, but also in strengthening key pharmacist skills.

We have penciled in Sunday 23rd June for the session in the Sunderland LPC area. The session will be facilitated by CPPE and will be supported by medics.

More details will follow shortly.

Other Training Sessions

CPPE provide a breadth of training opportunities across the region and the LPC promotes these in our emails and PharmOutcomes messages. Details of all the CPPE training opportunities are available on their website: https://www.cppe.ac.uk/

However, if there are any specific training sessions that you would like to see available within Sunderland, then please contact Mark Stephenson.

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Great North Pharmacy Research Conference

The Great North Pharmacy Research conference is approaching fast. This conference aims to showcase all the great regional pharmacy research completed this year and will incorporate the regional pre-registration presentations and awards. This includes work from early career researchers, postgraduate students and pharmacy professionals from all sectors. It will be an excellent event to network with pharmacy colleagues from all sectors. It may well appeal to some of your pre-reg’ students.

There are a number of keynote speakers including Richard Cattell (Deputy Chief Pharmacist – NHS Improvement) and Paula Russell (Regional Integrating NHS Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation (IPMO) Lead

The conference is being held on Friday 5th July 2019 at St James Park, Newcastle

Register to attend here https://bit.ly/2NwwRem

Keeping in Touch

Chief Officer Visits

In our 2017 Annual Survey, a number of contractors suggested that they would like more contact with the committee. As a response to this, Mark Stephenson committed to visit each community pharmacy twice a year. Mark visited every community pharmacy earlier in the year (April/May) and will be visiting again in October and November. Visits were undertaken at the same time as the regional ‘Love Your Heart’ campaign, and it was great to see so much enthusiasm, creativity and passion when displaying the campaign.

NHS England and Improvement Messages

You will all receive regular messages from Linda Bosher and Helen Scott from NHS England and Improvement (NHSE & I). NHSE & I have previously replicated their emails and also sent messages via PharmOutcomes. However, they are no longer sending these messages via PharmOutcomes and it is therefore vital that you access your shared email accounts on a regular basis. Whenever possible, I will also prompt contractors (for a limited time) that NHS & I have sent an email out to contractors. However, the use of NHS shared email accounts is becoming increasingly important and it is vital that you start to embed the use of the shared email accounts within your daily work and routine. As the use of fax machines is being wound down across the NHS (GP Practices and secondary care), we will see the use of shared email accounts being used much more in the future.

Observer at a Sunderland LPC Meeting

There is an open invitation for any contractor - or their representative - to observe an LPC meeting. We hold several meetings every year on an evening and several during the day. Our next meeting is being held on the following:

Thursday May 16th

10am – 4pm

National Glass Centre

If you would like to attend, please get in touch with Mark Stephenson on 07828 482 957 or [email protected]

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SUNDERLAND LPC MEMBERSHIP

Sunderland LPC Membership

Independent members:

Greg Clark Hopes Pharmacy, 49 Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4AR. Telephone: 0191 5843437. Email: [email protected]

Tim Dobbin (Treasurer) Herrington Medical Centre Pharmacy, DH4 4LE. Telephone: 0191 584 3460 Email: [email protected]

Cliff Gaines G Whitfield Ltd, 1a Church Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4DN. Telephone: 0191 584 2150. Email: [email protected]

Usman Khalid Woodlands Pharmacy, Vigo Lane, Rickleton. Washington, Tyne and Wear, NE38 9EJ. Telephone: 0191 415 5632.

Umesh Patel (Chair) Leema Pharmacy, 91 Tunstall Road, SR2 7RW. Telephone: 0191 528 3910 Email: [email protected]

Derek Roberts Riverview Health Centre Pharmacy, Borough Road, Sunderland SR1 2HJ. Telephone : 0191 567 2560

CCA members

Karen Ayton Boots UK Ltd. The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland SR1 3DR. Telephone: 0191 510 8581. Email: [email protected]

Kathryn Brown (Vice Chair) Rowlands Pharmacy. Telephone: 07917 168679. Email: [email protected]

Andrea Dickinson Rowlands Pharmacy, 189 Chester Road, Sunderland, SR4 7JA. Telephone: 0191 567 8900. Email: [email protected]

Raminder Sihota Boots UK Ltd. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0773 405 6719

Barrie Tudberry Boots UK Ltd. The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland SR1 3DR. Telephone: 0191 510 8581. Email: [email protected]

AIMp members

Mukarrom Hussain Norchem Ltd. Telephone: 07760 628 469 Email: [email protected]

Kay Stephenson Juno Health/Ashchem. Hylton Castle Pharmacy, 22 – 23 Chiswick Road, Sunderland SR53PZ. Telephone: 0191 548 0359.

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Contact Sunderland LPC at: Future LPC Meetings

Website: Sunderland LPC has three evening meetings a year and four day time www.psnc.org.uk/sunderlandlpc/ meetings. If you would like to attend one of our meetings as an observer, you will be most welcome. The next LPC meetings are as follows:

Email: Thursday 16th May (full day meeting) (see above) [email protected] Wednesday 3rd July (evening meeting) Twitter: @sunderlandlpc / @MarkSundLPC Please get in touch with Mark Stephenson if you would like to attend one of the LPC meetings as an observer. Facebook: If you meet any representatives from pharmaceutical companies who may be https://m.facebook.com/Sunderland interested in sponsoring any of the LPC meetings, or any of the LPC events LPC/?locale2=en_GB for contractors, please ask them to get in contact with Mark Stephenson at the LPC. Through sponsorship we can achieve additional value for money for all our contractors.

EDITOR: Mark Stephenson. Telephone: 07828 482 957 or 0191 378 3684 or email: [email protected]

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