The Finance Officer for North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS) is Angela Southern.  She is responsible for the Pharmacy First and Minor Ailments Scheme’s across North & South of Tyne & Wear. (Including the MAR Chart Claims).

Angela and her team have now moved to a permanent base location and any claims now need to be sent to this address. 
Angela Southern
Finance Officer
North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS)
Riverside House
Goldcrest Way
Newburn Riverside
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE15 8NY

Formal written communication to all pharmacies regarding our move will be sent out in due course.

Should you have any queries regarding this matter please contact Angela direct angela.southern@sotw.nhs.uk

Sunderland Pharmacy School and the Hope Winch Society are holding their 48th Hope Winch Memorial Lecture.  This year’s lecture, which is entitled ‘Why generics and biosimilar medicines matter?’ will be given by Dr Jeremy Desai, Chief Operating Officer at Apotex, .

Registration will take place at 6:30pm in the new Sciences Complex, City Campus.  There weill also be pre-lecture drinks reception and buffet in their new building.

The lecture will take place at the University of Sunderland’s Murray Library also on City Campus at 7.30pm.

Click Here to download a flyer enclosed which provides more details on the event. 

To confirm your attendance please email:  alumni@sunderland.ac.uk or call 0191 515 3664 by Friday 25th October.

A Substance Misuse Shared Care Pharmacy Eduction Event  has been arranged for 2nd October 2013 at Quality Hotel - East Boldon.  The meeting is open to South Tynesdie Pharmacists.

Vicky Major, Clinical Lead from First Contact will be present along with Debbie Forsythe (Director/Head of Service - Substance Misuse)  and some of their Substance Misuse Practitioners who are very keen to be involved and progress relationships and knowledge.

This will be an opportunity for Pharmacists and their teams to meet STSMS, share best practice, understand treatment options and build communication pathways which will enable the building and develop relationships and understanding of treatment system in South Tyneside

Event Content

  – Meet First Contact Clinical South Tyneside Substance Misuse Service
·         Presentation from FCC
·         Explanation of STSMS and the model
·         Role of the Recovery Champion and Buddies
·         Case study

The event will start at 6.30pm with Food & Drink Available from 6pm.  You can book using the booking form below.

Gateshead & South Tyneside LPC and Sunderland LPC are jointly hosting  a meeting for Healthy Living Pharmacy Champions and their staff.  The meeting will be held at the Quality Hotel in East Boldon and will consist of guest speaker Sandie Hall from Tees area.


Sandie is the Health Living Co-ordinator in Tees and is an inspirational speaker around Healthy Living Pharmacies.

The evening will be very much around what the champions do, a brief overview is as follows:
 
·         Welcome and Introduction
·         HLP what it means to your patients
·         What are the key factors that turn a member of staff into a champion?
·         View of stands and examples of health promotion zones
·         Gaining confidence in the approaching the customer on difficult issues
·         Signposting and referral
·         Ask the Champions

The event is free and we encourage you to come along with your healthy living Champions.
It will be held on the 30th September 2013.  6pm Food & Drink 6.30pm Start.
You can use the online form below to book on to the event.

Communications International Group, publishers of Pharmacy Magazine, is in the process of updating a programme of research into the market for tobacco replacement products and nicotine delivery devices in the UK, which was first conducted in 2012. Research consultants, Strategic Development Resources Ltd are conducting this online survey and would be interested in having as many pharmacists as possible fill in their survey. Your responses will be treated in complete confidentiality.

This survey will take you 5-10 minutes to complete online. As a thank-you for your time, you are invited to enter a free prize draw to win a Kindle Fire.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/pharma13

The order line for Stoptober 2013 is now open – the pharmacy order line on 0800 678 3173 is now open from Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, until 28th October 2013 or whilst stocks last.

Stoptober is a 28-day national stop smoking challenge – and will run again in October this year. It has been shown that people who manage to stop smoking for 28 days are five times more likely to stop for good and last year, thousands of people stopped successfully in the biggest stop smoking challenge ever.

As soon as smokers join Stoptober, they’ll start receiving as much (or as little) support as they want to keep them on track. All Stoptober support is free and includes:

• Stoptober stop smoking pack
• A 28-day smartphone app, with daily updates and quitting advice
• Text service for motivational pick-me-ups
• Detailed tools and tips for coping, as well as the encouragement and support from thousands of people going through the same thing via Social Media

Stoptober provides a great opportunity for a conversation starter with customers on quitting and gives pharmacy teams a fantastic and engaging way to discuss products, tailor advice and introduce stop smoking services.

It will be supported by a high profile advertising campaign, and community-level engagement across England with retailers, employers and local authorities all getting involved to make Stoptober bigger and better this year.

For more information you can download the flyer below.

Another talk Cancer workshop is taking place on 
22nd November 2013  -  9am-4:30pm at 
Bridges room 2, Gateshead Council, Civic Centre, Regent Street 
Gateshead, NE8 1HH.
 The workshop is open to Gateshead Pharmacists and their staff and will equip and empower you to raise cancer awareness in the community.  Full details are can be downloaded here .   For further information or to book a place please contact Renuka Godawatta on 0191 433 3043 or  by  email