Community Pharmacy Leicestershire and Rutland – Community Pharmacy Leicestershire and Rutland

📣 Save the Date – Community Pharmacy Leicestershire & Rutland AGM 2025

We’re excited to announce the date for this year’s Community Pharmacy Leicestershire & Rutland (CPL&R) AGM – and it’s shaping up to be a fantastic event! 🗓 Date: Sunday 28th September 2025 📍 Venue: Hilton Hotel Leicester (Junction 21), LE19 1WQ ⏰ Time: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Community Pharmacy August 2025 Bank Holiday Rota

The August Bank Holiday Rota is now available.

Community Pharmacy Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland – Annual Curry Night 🍛

We’re excited to invite you to our Annual Community Pharmacy Curry Night — an evening of networking, collaboration, and good food! 🗓 Friday 7th November 2025 🕖 7:00pm – 10:00pm 📍 Peepul Centre, Leicester, LE4 6DP Come connect with fellow pharmacy professionals, share ideas, and celebrate our achievements together. We look forward to welcoming you!

Only Order What You Need Campaign -Claim Window is now open from 5th to 31st August 2025

📅 16 June – 4 August 2025 All LLR Community Pharmacies are invited to join the campaign to raise awareness and support safer repeat prescribing. ✅ Contractors who participate will receive a £100 voucher. 📝 Complete your Declaration of Participation by 31 August 2025.

Shared Care Records for LLR Community Pharmacies

We’re pleased to confirm that all Community Pharmacies across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) now have access to patients' Shared Care Records. This is a significant step forward in supporting safer, more informed care by enabling pharmacy teams to view essential clinical information such as: Medication history Diagnoses and problem lists Allergies Recent GP or hospital encounters If you are interested in joining please click below.

Roving Healthcare Unit (MMR, Pertussis and RSV)

Please find below the updated locations for the roving healthcare unit, offering walk-in vaccinations for MMR, pertussis, and RSV

CPCF arrangements for 2024/25 and 2025/2026

To find out more about the CPCF arrangements and access resources please click below.

ACT NOW! Pharmacy Quality Scheme for 2025/26

The declaration period for the 2025/26 PQS is between 9am on 2nd February 2026 and 11.59pm on 27th February 2026, with pharmacy owners needing to have evidence to demonstrate meeting the domains that they have claimed for by the end of 31st March 2026.

Monthly Deadline Tracker

To help keep LLR community pharmacy teams on track with monthly tasks, quality payments and to meet local and national deadlines. View the latest monthly Community Pharmacy Deadline Tracker here.

Monthly Newsletter

Access our monthly newsletter here.

Locally Commissioned Services

Many services provided by community pharmacists are commissioned locally according to the needs of the area. Locally commissioned community pharmacy services can be contracted via a number of different routes and by different commissioners. These include:

Pharmacy Contraceptive Service

This service now covers the initiation of oral contraception, routine monitoring and ongoing supply. To help LLR community pharmacies get started including access to prescribing advice from the LLR Area Prescribing Committee click here.

Regional Correspondence

Please see the correspondence we have sent to all community pharmacies across LLR. This can be regional, local or important information for contractors and community pharmacy teams.

Pharmacy First

Around 98% of LLR community pharmacies are now delivering the Pharmacy First service. To help your pharmacy deliver the service successfully including access to resources to help you when speaking to your local GP Practice click here.

Latest Community Pharmacy England News

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August 2025 Price Concessions 1st Update

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (19/08/2025) confirmed the following initial list of price concessions for August 2025: Drug Pack size Price…

19th August 2025

Flu and COVID-19: NBS opens to post appointments

Pharmacy owners using the National Booking Service (NBS) to offer appointments for adult flu and COVID-19 vaccinations can now post appointments within the system, ahead…