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NPA – supporting you in 2025 As we step into 2025 the NPA is reflecting on the challenges faced by community pharmacies in Northern Ireland. We met many of our members at the recent NI Pharmacy Tradeshow and know that contractors are finding it tough but, despite it all, you continue to provide great care to your patients. It is a privilege for everyone in the NPA to help you with your vital work and we pledge to continue to support you in 2025. In 2024 the NPA mobilised an unprecedented campaign for fair funding, which continues at pace. With three days of action, the first ever ballot on concerted action against cuts in Northern Ireland, England and Wales, and unrivalled nationwide protests, we made community pharmacy a force to be reckoned with.
We welcome the vision set out in the Community Pharmacy 2030 document but know that this work is not achievable without fair and sustainable funding. We will continue to campaign and make people aware of the crisis in community pharmacy until the scandalous underfunding of vital services comes to an end.
In 2025 we will continue to deliver excellent learning and development, great pharmacy advice and support and gold standard pharmacy insurance.
NPA Insurance no longer charges for vaccine administration, including covid, flu and travel
vaccinations which are administered by any suitably trained staff members. In addition, we are committed to facilitate the evolution of community pharmacy and provide indemnity cover for all the emerging services under Pharmacy First. We will also be enabling the independent prescribers of the future to practice, and the NPAI’s indemnity policy now extends, at no extra charge, to cover employed Designated Prescribing Practitioners for training of newly qualified independent prescribers working for our policy holders.
Visit the new NPA online membership hub The range of information hubs available to NPA members now includes Independent Prescribing, Women’s Health, Pharmacy First, Flu Vaccinations and many more.
Find them all at our brand new NPA membership hub, where you can also manage your NPA learners and register for NPA events. It offers an improved digital user experience, more personalised content and easier access to important information, benefits and membership services.
With growing interest in weight management services, our new knowledge article 'Prescribing and Supplying Weight Loss Medicines', explores the risks associated with GLP1RAs, remote consultations and outlines safeguards to mitigate prescribing risks.
Anne McAllister Northern Ireland Representation Manager
Thousands of satisfied students Across our accredited and non-accredited training courses, student satisfaction in 2024 stands at an impressive 89% and supervisor satisfaction at 88%. We look forward to welcoming many new students this year, as work progresses towards the opening of the Pharmaceutical Society’s register for pharmacy technicians. For additional support, visit our dedicated Learner Support Hub.
Covid- pharmacy’s contribution must never be forgotten The Covid-19 public inquiry has now moved onto Module 4 which is considering vaccination. In our contribution as ‘core participants’ to the inquiry we will highlight the major contribution of community pharmacy to the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
Our submissions and provision of evidence ensure that our members’ heroic work and sacrifices are included in the official record of the pandemic – and will shape the recommendations that we hope will ensure the Covid pandemic is an experience never to be repeated.
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