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Only Order What You Need Campaign

From Monday 16th June to 4th August 2025 all LLR Community Pharmacies are invited to participate in the Only Order What You Need Campaign. This campaign will be running across LLR GP Practices and Care Homes to raise awareness and encourage patients to manage their repeat prescriptions via -Only ordering the items they need when they request their prescription -Checking the prescription bag, before they leave the pharmacy, and returning anything they don’t need.

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Invitation to Webinar & Pilot Opportunity – Smart Inhaler Dongle

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar on Tuesday 29th July from 1:30–2:00pm, where we will be joined by Smart Respiratory to introduce an exciting pilot opportunity for all community pharmacies across LLR. Smart Respiratory have developed a Smart Inhaler Dongle designed for use with pressurised MDI (Metered Dose Inhaler) devices. This innovative device offers: • Dose tracking • Adherence and compliance monitoring • Medication reminders • Notifications when the inhaler is empty Smart Respiratory are seeking volunteer community pharmacies to participate in this pilot by collecting and analysing data from patient-returned MDIs. Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 382 299 476 665 1 Passcode: 6Ps2ed64

Shared Care Records for LLR Community Pharmacies

We’re pleased to invite all LLR community pharmacies to join an upcoming webinar on the Shared Care Records—whether your pharmacy is currently enrolled or not. 📅 Date: Thursday 24th July 🕜 Time: 1:30 – 2:00 PM 💻 Location: Online (link below) During this short, focused session, we’ll cover: • An overview of the Shared Care Records programme • How access to shared records can support better patient care and improve workflow in your pharmacy • How your pharmacy can get involved This is a great opportunity to understand the benefits, ask questions, and explore how it fits into the future of integrated care. We look forward to seeing you there! Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 314 868 986 844 1 Passcode: iq7qx7FL

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CPCF arrangements for 2024/25 and 2025/26 announced

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

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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.

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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.

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Monthly Newsletter

Access our monthly newsletter here.

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Regional News

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.

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Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire 2025/26

Over 85% of community pharmacy owners are still yet to complete the 2025/26 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire.  We encourage pharmacy owners who…

11th July 2025

Otomize® ear spray 5ml now available as a generic

Pharmacy teams should be aware that the brand Otomize® ear spray has been discontinued and will no longer be available for community pharmacies to order…

11th July 2025

National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage Of Bumetanide 1mg Tablets – Updated

Update: 11 July 2025 DHSC have provided an update that Bumetanide 1mg tablets are in limited supply until late July 2025 National Patient Safety Alert:…

11th July 2025