Community Pharmacy Leicestershire and Rutland – Community Pharmacy Leicestershire and Rutland

LLR Annual Community Pharmacy Curry Night- Friday 19th June

🌶️ It’s back… and better than ever! The LLR Community Pharmacy Annual Curry Night 2026 is here 🎉 An evening to connect, collaborate, and unwind with colleagues from across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland — away from the day-to-day pressures of pharmacy. ✨ Great food ✨ Meaningful conversations ✨ Stronger connections across our sector 📅 Friday 19th June ⏰ 7:00pm – 10:30pm 📍 The Little Club Bar & Grill, Leicester Whether you’re a contractor, pharmacist, team member, or system partner — this is your chance to come together as a community.

Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INT)

We’ve launched a new INT (Integrated Neighbourhood Teams) webpage on the CPL&R website. It explains Neighbourhood Health, the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, and what this means for community pharmacy in LLR.

LLR Pharmacy First – Achieving Threshold Guidance

We are proud to launch our step-by-step guide created specifically with our teams in mind. Inside you’ll find: 👉 The essential hints and tips that make the biggest difference 👉 Team scripts for counter staff and HCAs 👉 Referral and triage tools to reduce missed activity 👉 Daily huddle checklists 👉 What to do… and importantly, what not to do 👉 Quick wins to help you reach your threshold every single month

Free NHS vaccinations from the Roving Healthcare Unit

Please find attached and below, the up to date schedule for the roving healthcare unit. Currently it is offering the following free NHS vaccinations on a walk-in basis: flu, RSV, HPV, MMR and maternal pertussis

LLR Community Pharmacy 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.

Community Pharmacy LLR 2026 AGM

Join us for the Community Pharmacy Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland AGM, where contractors will receive the latest sector updates, hear from key speakers, celebrate local achievements, and help shape the future of community pharmacy across our region.

Monthly LLR Community Pharmacy 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 emergency hormone contraception supply and 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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June 2026 Price Concessions 1st Update

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (19/06/2026) confirmed the following initial list of price concessions for June 2026: Drug Pack size Price…

19th June 2026

Flu and Childhood flu vac: PGD and VGD published

NHS England has authorised and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published the Patient Group Direction (PGD) and Vaccine Group Direction (VGD) for use…