Locally Commissioned Services
| Service | Commissioner Details | Service Specification | Training Requirements | Comments |
| Emergency Hormone Contraceptive (City) | Dan Hallam Commissioning Manager Division of Public Health | Levonorgestrel National PGD template (March 2023)
Ulipristal National PGD template (March 2023) Expiry Date 28th February 2026 |
All pharmacists delivering this service must complete the following:
This is a tendered service so before starting to complete the training and service contact Dan Hallam. |
This is a tendered service.
Currently the only Sexual Health service available to pharmacies in Leicester City Council is the Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) service which allows you to provide EHC to women free of charge. As part of this service, you will be offering advice on good sexual health.
Below is a list of pharmacies for City:
Please find link and poster below detailing all of the pharmacies within in the city providing free EHC for under 25’s. |
| Emergency Hormone Contraceptive (County) | Nicola Jarvis Strategic Lead – Health Related HarmsPublic HealthLeicestershire County Council |
Levonorgestrel PGD (2023/24)
Ulipristal-PGD-Leicestershire and Rutland 2023-24 Final Signed
Expiry date 28th February 2026 |
All pharmacists delivering this service must complete the following:
This is a tendered service so before starting to complete the training and service contact Nicola Jarvis. |
This is a tendered service.
Currently the only Sexual Health service available to pharmacies in Leicestershire County Council is the Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) service which allows you to provide EHC to women free of charge. As part of this service, you will be offering advice on good sexual health. |
| Supervised Consummation of Opioid substation treatments and Substance Misuse and other medication | Mohammed Shaikh
Senior Prescriber, Turning Point Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland T: 07484 097 427 |
CPL&R SC Part B service spec | Refer to the service specification; Training via CPPE and F2F
Must complete a Declaration of Competence (DoC) for “Supervised Consumption of Prescribed Medicines Service” and complete the CPPE Substance use and misuse e-learning programme to provide this service. The DoC needs to be reviewed every three years by the pharmacist. |
The pharmacist or competent member of the pharmacy team supervises the consumption of methadone or buprenorphine at the point of dispensing in the pharmacy ensuring the dose has been administered appropriately.
The pharmacy will offer the use of the consultation room. The pharmacy will be available to be contacted by Turning Point staff regarding the amendment to a prescription or to check the wellbeing of a service user. This is a remunerated service. |
| Needle Exchange | Mohammed Shaikh
Senior Prescriber, Turning Point Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland T: 07484 097 427 |
CPL&R Needle exchange Part B | Refer to the service specification; Staff must complete a F2F training session before this service can be carried out.
All pharmacy staff should be encouraged to complete the free online training courses from Frontier. |
A confidential service for anyone who injects drugs including steroids.
The main aim is to protect individuals from infections such as Hep B, Hep C and HIV Pharmacies are expected to give safer injecting advice. This is a remunerated service. Monthly needle ex waste collection. |
| Take Home Naloxone Programme | Mohammed Shaikh
Senior Prescriber, Turning Point Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland T: 07484 097 427 |
CPL&R THN Part B | Refer to the service specification.
Staff must complete a F2F training session before this service can be carried out. |
This is an add-on to needle exchange – Naloxone is an opiate antagonist used for the purpose of reducing death in the event of an opiate overdose.
This is a remunerated service. |
| H. Pylori C13 Urea Breath Test Service | H. Pylori C13 Urea Breath Test Service – LIPCO Healthcare | The H. pylori breath test can be undertaken by a
dispenser, pharmacy technician or pharmacist within an accredited Pharmacy. |
Relevant staff from the provider practice must attend the training course provided by LIPCO Healthcare Ltd to ensure safe and competent delivery of this service. | Leicestershire Independent Pharmacy Company (LIPCO) won the H.pylori service contract, which went out to tender via the Any Qualified Provider route. This service is therefore only provided by members of LIPCO.
A list of pharmacies offering the service can be found here:
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| NHS Community Pharmacy Palliative Care Drugs Stockist Scheme | Email the medicines optimisation team with the subject “End of Life/Specialised Medication” | Email the medicines optimisation team with the subject “End of Life/Specialised Medication”End of Life contract 1st October 2023 – 31st March 2024. This is currently undergoing a tender process | Refer to the service specification.
Pharmacists and staff have received regular resuscitation training as appropriate. Pharmacists and staff providing the service have access to safeguarding (including adults and children) level 1 and 2 training which is undertaken every 3 years if appropriate. |
The list of pharmacies currently providing the service:
(note this is being updated to reflect the spec quantities) |