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How ready is your pharmacy for winter?

Community Pharmacy England wants to hear from pharmacy owners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Take the short poll to share how the 2026/27 funding settlement has affected your costs and how prepared you feel for winter. Your feedback will help make the case for further investment and reform. Closes at 11.59pm on Monday 16 November. Please note, CCA multiple branches do not need to respond as their head offices will be contacted separately.

Mandatory & Important: Changes to the Hypertension Case-Finding Service

NHS England has published an updated Hypertension Case-Finding Service (HCFS) specification, with important changes to the service requirements and patient eligibility criteria.

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.

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.

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

Monthly LLR Community Pharmacy Newsletter

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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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October 2026 Price Concessions 6th Update

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (03/11/2026) confirmed the following list of price concessions for October 2026: Please note: DHSC has…

3rd November 2026

Flu vac: use of second line vaccine

Pharmacy owners have reported strong patient demand for flu vaccination in the first month of the full seasonal vaccination programme and we have also been…