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Pharmacy Technicians – are you ready and willing for your PGDs?
June 26th 2024 will be a big day for Techs, long overdue. But hold your taters! As usual, the headlines only tell you what they want you to hear! As CPE(Community Pharmacy England ) make clear for the avoidance of doubt, this brave new world...
Fancy a chat – bot?
We have been asked if we are going to get a chat-bot. Absolutely not! We are people and presumably anyone reading this is another Homo Sapien and not a robot, so we don't ask you to tick a box to confirm you are not a...
NPS records update – help us to help you
Lat week we sent out e-mail asking people to update their records with us in preparation for us setting up secure log in pages for those registered with us and for those who might wish to register with us in the future. We want to...
Are your details up to date and correct?
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). We all know the term and it's meaning, don't we? If you register with Nightingale Pharmacy Services (NPS) we ask that you consent to us using your information (data) for specific purposes and we are required to ensure that the...
There’s always a better way – view and book jobs here in the near future
We just now sure yet what it is, but we're getting there. It's a work in progress. Practice makes perfect so it's said. We will shortly be asking you to confirm your details with us to allow you to log in to your own secure area...
Musn’t grumble! It’s the British way. Can you help us?
This is not a complaint, quite the opposite, but it does affect more people than we would like and we are not trying to be clever or patronising with anyone. We have learnt that some people and companies/organisations are missing our e-mails once they have...
It’s so funny, how we don’t talk anymore
People occasionally ask, why can't we contact you by telephone? You can! But there are far more effective ways and means of communicating with us. For several years, we did work via telephone and mobile out of hours, there was always someone available to talk...
5 a month not achievable? 5 a day can be done!
Following on from yesterdays post https://nightingalepharmacyservices.com/fifth-of-pharmacies-warn-may-pharmacy-first-threshold-increase-unachievable/ we ran a very quick (and therefore perhaps not entirely representative poll) of Pharmacy First completions carried out yesterday by pharmacists working in community pharmacy yesterday and most stated they had completed between four and five consultations. They stated that time...
Fifth of pharmacies warn May Pharmacy First threshold increase ‘unachievable’
FIVE! 1 +1 +1+1+1 = 5. Not achievable!? One a week plus one more in a month, to claim £1 000 additional payment (in addition to payments due for each completed consultation) . Yes, the monthly threshold will increase, but if you can't do 5, what...