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Men B Vacc Service

Details about the MenB vaccine service can be found on a dedicated page for contractors with timelines, dates and resources to ensure your pharmacy is fully up to date with news about the service and how it develops. The service will run from 20th July 2026 until 31st March 2027. For More Click Here

CPCF settlement: 2026/27

In May 2026, funding and other arrangements for community pharmacies for 2026/27 were finalised. Community Pharmacy England accepted the offer on condition of a shared programme of reform with Government and NHS England.

Prescription nomination: Consent or informed consent?

It’s interesting how some of the same topics keep coming round, recently there has been a growing flurry of complaints about changing of patient EPS nominations. We have seen first hand on visits that many contractors are obtaining patient consent, ie patients are signing an EPS nomination form* but we are not sure that this is necessarily informed consent. This is often because a patient has an acute prescription (for example at the weekend or out of hours) or is attending for some other service that they cannot access at their usual pharmacy for whatever reason. It is perfectly reasonable for the “new” pharmacy to ask the patient if they want to change their nomination.

Checking your Disclosure and Barring Service check

If you are not sure if you completed a DBS check within the last three years, or you are not sure if you enrolled for the DBS update service (which automatically renews and avoids the need to reapply every three years) or if you don’t know if you have a standard* or enhanced DBS check you can search "Track a DBS Application" *You must have the enhanced DBS check to meet the criteria for PQS, also any registered staff providing off-site vaccinations or the 2-3 year old ‘flu vaccinations are required to have a current enhanced DBS check

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A reminder that any pharmacy who did not sign up for the Spring 26 COVID-19 programme and wishes to register for the Autumn campaign can…

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24th July 2026