NEWS Extended expert membership for Prof Cairns Janice Oman
Scotland Representation Manager
Medicines Supply Chain toolkit updates The NPA’s Medicines Supply Chain Toolkit has been updated to include a new patient leaflet about medicine shortages. The ‘Is your medicine unavailable’ leaflet explains that medicine shortages are typically beyond the control of the pharmacy. The leaflet is intended to ensure that the reputation of the pharmacy is not damaged by a shortage, and also provides reassurance to patients. Another recent addition to the toolkit is a wholesaler service standards checklist which helps empower independent pharmacists to challenge poor service and to acknowledge good service.
The full suite of Manifesto for Independent Community Pharmacy toolkits are available at
www.npa.co.uk/independentsvoice.
Staff Training Funding Grant £800
A training grant of £800 is available to each community pharmacy towards costs involved in training a permanent member of staff in Pharmacy Services Level 2, 3 or as an accuracy checker. Payment will be made by providing a copy invoice, registration letter or course certificate for courses enrolled from 31 March 2014 to NES by the end of February 2015. Use the form at Annex A of PCA(P)(2014)25 ‘Community Pharmacy Contract: Infrastructure support: staff training’ available at
www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk.
NPA courses suitable for funding with this grant are NVQ Level 3 in pharmacy services and Accuracy in Dispensing.
Pharmacist Assistant Grant £150 Scottish Government has provided a grant of £150 per contractor available to be claimed by the end of January 2015 as a contribution towards the costs incurred in putting pharmacy staff through the free Pharmacist Assistant course. The course, written by the NPA and NES to develop the role of the Medicines Counter Assistant in the delivery of patient facing services, is available from NES by completing the funding application form Annex A of PCA(P)(2014)26 ‘Pharmacist assistant training grant funding.’
Gluten Free Foods Service
The trial of the Pharmacy GFF service has been extended for an additional six months until the 30th September and will be reviewed within that period. Boards will be sending out the Scottish Government Review questions to Members shortly. If NPA Members have any feedback on the Review please contact
j.oman@
npa.co.uk.
A Robert Gordon University Pharmacy expert has extended his membership of an influential advisory committee which produces the official standards for the quality of medicines in the UK.
Professor Donald Cairns, Head of RGU’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, will serve for a further four years on the British Pharmacopoeia Commission’s Medicinal Chemicals Expert Advisory Group.
The commission, which recently marked its 150th year, is the body of national experts charged with producing the British Pharmacopoeia each year.
It comprises six volumes of
information on drug monographs and is the legal standard for the purity of drugs and medicines in the UK and a number of Commonwealth countries.
The Medicinal Chemicals Expert Advisory Group works to review
monographs, analytical methods and new drugs.
Professor Cairns says, “I’m delighted to have been asked to continue as a member of the Medicinal Chemicals Expert Advisory Group at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
“This work can be demanding, but is very rewarding and is important since it raises the external profile of the School and wider University.”
Since 1864, the British Pharmacopoeia has provided authoritative standards for medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances and it continues to play an important role in the standard-setting process worldwide.
The 2015 edition includes almost 3,500 monographs which are legally enforced by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.
Please do not hesitate to contact Janice on
j.oman@
npa.co.uk if you have any issues you would like to raise.
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