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Gateshead and South Tyneside LPC have been working over the past few months with the South Tyneside Health Collaboration on an exciting new service which will be provided from Community Pharmacy. In essence the service involves signposting eligible patients contacting GPs for an appointment to commissioned community pharmacies for an appointment there which might be a minor ailment intervention (with or without some new products via PGDs), or perhaps an element of long term management of a condition. It will be called GP 2 Pharmacy (GP2P).
We will be sending more information about this shortly and hope to have a launch event on an evening of 27th November 2018 so please hold the date. We are currently working on the final details of the service, however, we wanted to give you advance notice as we are working at a fast pace to implement the service as soon as possible. In the current NHS climate where every penny counts this is an exciting time for community pharmacy in South Tyneside. It underpins the value that community pharmacy contributes to the NHS and patients through easy access to local clinical care from a convenient cost effective locations and will help to improve access to GP surgeries for more complex situations. We look forward to providing you with more information as soon as we can. (The likely location of the launch event will be the Clarion (Formerly the Quality Hotel) in Boldon.
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 This is a reminder to all pharmacist and technicians about the revalidation and renewals with the GPHC
Not everyone has the same deadline so in order to see your personal time make sure you log in on at https://www.mygphc.org/ Don't forget In the first year that you submit revalidation records, you will need to carry out, record and submit four CPD records, complete your renewal declarations and pay your registration renewal fee. You will need to record and submit these activities using the updated myGPhC online system. Those with a registration renewal deadline of 31st October will be the first group to submit four CPD records when they renew their registration & now have less than a week to complete these activities! In the second year that you submit revalidation records, and in all following years, you will need to carry out, record and submit six CPD records (4 planned and 2 unplanned), a peer discussion record and a reflective account record. For any further information visit the GPHC website or the RPS website for support. This is a reminder about the Drug and Alcohol Services Stakeholder Mobilisation Events being run tomorrow. A message was sent from the council via Pharmoutcomes and it is replicated below for your convenience.
Invitation: Stakeholder Mobilisation Workshops, Wednesday 17th October 2018 As you are probably aware, following the recent procurement process, from 1st November 2018 Change Grow Live (CGL) will be providing the Integrated Drug and Alcohol services for adults in Gateshead in partnership with the GP Federation and Recovery Connections, under the name 'Gateshead Recovery Partnership'. 6 GP's surgeries: Oxford Terrace, Bensham Family Practice, Teams Surgery, Central Medical Group, Birtley Medical Group and Whickham Surgery will provide specialist opiate prescribing treatment. Recovery Connections will deliver a wide-range of activities and programmes to help support clients through their recovery. Clients will be offered groups, programmes and services including Quasi Residential Rehabilitation. (The residential programme, is based on the 12 step programme and lasts for 24 weeks with open ended after care following discharge. There are opportunities for Day Care if residential is not assessed to be appropriate.) To aid the smooth transition to the new service we are holding 3 Stakeholder Mobilisation Workshops on Wednesday 17th October 2018. The purpose of the workshops is to introduce the partnership and the remodelling of substance misuse services in Gateshead. The workshop will provide the opportunity to engage in the development of pathways and influence transition, as well as meeting staff from each provider. The workshops will be held on Wednesday 17th October 2018 at Bewicks B, Gateshead Civic Centre, refreshments will be provided. Choice of timings for the workshops are: 13:30 to 15:00 15:30 to 17:00 17:30 to 19:00 There is no need to register your attendance. For any further details, please contact Joy Evans, 0191 433 2421, [email protected]  Gateshead Council conducted an Audit of the EHC service earlier in 2018. Some Pharmacies were contacted and visited as part of that audit. The council would like to thank those that participated.
As a result of the audit the council have introduced some adjustments to the Pharmoutcomes EHC 2018 template as well some recommendations . These are detailed below. Please familiarise yourself with the changes and should you have any queries please contact the Sexual Health lead at the council. David Brady ([email protected]) 0191-4333 147 AUDIT RECOMMENDATIONS AND CHANGES
Following the award of the substance misuse contract in Gateshead, CGL the new provider have prepared the Pharmacy Bulletin below for pharmacy in Gateshead.  Click to view / download the Pharmacy Buletin |
Copies of our older Paper Based News Letters (The LPC News) can be found by clicking below.
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