 As part of the current funding and contractual imposition you will know that a Quality Payments Schemes has been introduced. As part of the Quality Payments Scheme Contractors need to check their DOS (Directory of Service) Entry at 111 is up to date. There is now a DOS Checker in place to help Pharmacies. Please read the following information to ensure you complete this element of the QP. The DoS checker has been created to assist community pharmacy contractors in meeting the DoS quality criterion, which requires, on the day of the review, that a pharmacy's NHS 111 DoS entry is up to date.
The process to follow is listed below:
Local NHS 111 DoS Leads are developing systems locally to improve how updates to the DoS are made. Local DoS leads will communicate with contractors separately about this after the declaration period for the April review point closes.
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As part of the current funding and contractual imposition you will know that a Quality Payments Schemes has been introduced. As part of the Quality Payments Scheme Contractors need to publish their Patient Questionnaires.
The LPC's have had some queries around the upload process and the prescribed information that needs to be included when publishing. NHS Choices have a document that explains the process step by step that may help contractors. This can be found on the NHS Choices website however for your convenience you can download a copy by clicking here. PSNC also have further information about the requirements on there website. This an be found by clicking here. South Tyneside Foundation Trust have arranged EHC training sessions on 25th April 2017 for Pharmacists in Gateshead & South Tyneside. Full details including contacts for booking can be found within the flyer below. This training will cover you for face to face training requirements in Gateshead and South Tyneside. Booking early will avoid disappointment as EHC sessions tend to get booked up very quickly. Full details including how to book are in the flyer below.   As part of the current funding and contractual imposition you will know that a Quality Payments Schemes has been introduced. Please find below an update on several issues regarding the Quality Payments. Pharmoutcomes There is a Pharmoutcomes Module available for contractors to use. This is accessed in a slightly different way to other modules. It is located by clicking the Assessment menu tab at the top of the pharmoutcomes screen. This module allows your pharmacy to record its progress towards the achievement of both the Gateway Criteria and the Quality Criterion. Its very easy to use and also contains links to resources and information for each of the criteria. The LPC would encourage pharmacies to make use of this resource. One of the advantages of contractors using the pHarmouctocmes module will be that LPC's will be able to see collectively which areas are complete and which are not. This will help us to target further support in the area. PSNC Webinar On 16 March at 7.30pm PSNC will be hosting a Quality Payments Webinar. The webinar will provide you with a comprehensive update on the Quality Payments Scheme with all the latest information available from NHS England. On the night Alastair Buxton, PSNC Director of NHS Services, will talk you through each of the criteria, explaining how to meet them and the self-declaration process. He will also highlight all the guidance and resources available from PSNC. Click here for further information and to register for the webinar Dementia Friends Training Don't forget we also have 1 more dementia friends training session running on the 29th March at the Quality Hotel Boldon. You can book onto this by clicking HERE. Checklist Following our quality payments event last month the LPC agreed to send out an updated Quality Payment Checklist to help simplfy the requirements and deadlines required. This checklist can be downloaded from our website or by clicking here. NHS Choices Please note that the NHS Choices system has changed some of its templates. Some pharmacies who have updated their NHS Choices profiles early on after the announcement of the QP have noticed that their profiles have been partially wiped and repalced with a template that needs filling in. The template is quite easy to use so contractors need not worry about this however we would advise you to double check your NHS Choices entry again prior to submitted your decalrtion to ensure it is up to date. NPA Resources - The NPA have contacted us to offer contractors some support towards the QP. These resources are open to all contractors (regardless of being a member of the NPA or not). Please see the message from NPA for details of their support. Message from NPA Quality payments scheme – NPA resources Part of claiming quality payments requires the production of an annual written patient safety report. The NPA Pharmacy Services team has produced resources as described below to help NPA members meet this patient safety report quality criterion. The resources comprise:
To meet the patient safety annual report criterion, on either the April or November review date, a written patient safety report must be available for inspection at your pharmacy. This criterion is worth a minimum of £1,280 and can only be claimed once. The written report has to demonstrate evidence of:
Medication Safety Officer As Medication Safety Officer (MSO) for all community pharmacies in England with fewer than 50 branches, I would also like to remind your contractors of the patient safety resources available to them from the NPA. These include the NPA Incident Report form, guidance documents, drug and device alerts and my MSO quarterly reports which are available on the Patient Safety (MSO) page of the NPA website. The online NPA Incident Report Form can be used by any pharmacy contractor in England with fewer than 50 branches and not just NPA members to report dispensing errors – reports can be printed off, or emailed to contractors to keep as a pharmacy record. Pharmacies using the NPA Patient Safety Incident report form should keep copies of forms submitted as these will contain evidence of the analysis, learning and action taken, which can be used in the annual patient safety report. The NPA MSO Quarterly reports provide a summary of errors reported to the NPA, and include top tips to prevent such errors occurring in the future. These will be useful for contractors when compiling their annual patient safety report. The online Incident Report Form and the MSO quarterly reports are open-access, so contractors do not need to be NPA members to use them. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact me by email [email protected] Kind regards NPA  The LPC would like to remind pharmacy contractors to ensure that they have completed all their relevant paperwork and submissions needed to comply with their contractual requirements.
Information Governance This needs to be completed by by 31st March 2017 The IG toolkit can be found at https://www.igt.hscic.gov.uk Further information and resources can be found on the PSNC website psnc.org.uk/ig Contract Monitoring - Supporting Documents Every Pharmacy needs to submit the following Documentation to NHS England.
Please ensure that the NHS England receive these by 31st March 2017 These can be submitted to [email protected] National Audit There have been no details of a national audit announced this year. Quarterly NMS / MUR Data Please don't forget to also ensure you have supplied your quarterly MUR and NMS data to NHS England. These are due by the 10th of the month following the quarter.  All NHS providers, including community pharmacies need to provide information governance assurances to the NHS on an annual basis. These assurances are provided through completion of an online assessment tool, the NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT). Requirements for IG change annually, and Version 14 of the IG toolkit was released on 27th May 2016.
Pharmacies are expected to attain Level 2 against each of the pharmacy IG requirements. The deadline for submitting this year’s return is 31st March 2017. For help or further information click here visit the PSNC resources website.  Public Health services in Gateshead are now being re-commissioned by the council.
The services currently provided by pharmacies need to be re-commissioned by a tender process in line with other council contracts. The LPC has been working with the council to make this process as easy as possible for pharmacies. As a consequence a Pharmoutcomes module has been developed to aid this process. Gateshead council are opening up this tender to all pharmacies in Gateshead including those who did not offer the services previously. We believe this is a great opportunity for pharmacy contractors. The 5 services that are now being re-commissioned are
The process for existing providers as well as new providers is as follows.
The deadline for submission is 15th March and we would strongly advise contractors to fill this in as soon as possible to avoid any disruption in services. Should you have any queries regarding the process or any of the services please contact the relevant person at the council. (Details below) Contract Process Queries David Brady Public Health Programme Lead Sexual Health & Contracts Lead 0191 433 3147 [email protected] Service Specific Queries EHC - David Brady Public Health Programme Lead Sexual Health 0191 433 3147 [email protected] NHS Health Checks - Angela Hannant Public Health Programme Lead Health Care and Quality 0191 433 3055 [email protected] Smoking Active Intervention, NRT Supply, Supervised Consumption - Joy Evans Public Health Programme Lead 0191 433 2421 [email protected] |
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