This is the 2nd update of concessionary prices for March 2021.
Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed.
Concessionary prices may be granted up until the end of the month so CPNI will notify you of any further concessionary prices as and when they are agreed.
Please continue to notify CPNI of any pricing issues you are experiencing via our new Medicine Shortage Reporter.
SENT ON BEHALF OFDR. GARETH C. GILVARY Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
I write to remind Contractors, who will be providing COVID-19 Community Pharmacy Vaccination Service, that all individuals providing the service must have completed the following with the training requirements.
All individuals providing the service are competent to do so.
All vaccinators complete the COVID-19 vaccinator competency assessment tool. Any training needs identified by the COVID-19 vaccinator competency assessment tool should be addressed. Copies of the assessments should be held in the pharmacy. Additional training and information is available on the PHA website.
All vaccinators complete the e-Learning for Health modules on:Core Knowledge for COVID-19 vaccinators.
COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca
All vaccinators have completed Basic Life Support (BLS) and anaphylaxis training within the last year. This can be undertaken either on-line of face to face.
Staff involved in the provision of this service are advised that they should consider being vaccinated against Hepatitis B and be advised of the risks should they decide not to be vaccinated.
Furthermore, CPNI encourages contractors to contact the following agencies for additional training.
Further to our correspondence on Monday 22 March 2021, CPNI continues to liaise with SimplyBook.Me (SBM) in developing the online COVID-19 vaccination booking system (VBS).
Contractors should have received and returned a contractual agreement to SBM to enable your pharmacy account(s) to be set-up. This was sent to the pharmacy contact email address that you provided to CPNI for use by SBM. If you have not been able to complete and return the contract(s) to SBM please do so at your earliest convenience.
SBM has confirmed that a bespoke vaccination calendar dashboard for each participating pharmacy including; usernames, passwords, a unique URL and training material are being finalised, and these will be sent to all pharmacies within the next 24-48 hours. CPNI appreciates that the turn-around times in relation to SBM and the service launch are very tight, and we would ask you to ensure that the appropriate person within your pharmacy (group) is notified to expect correspondence from SBM and to make you aware of any email correspondence from SBM.
When you receive the username, passwords and the unique URL you will be required to make amendments to the public facing COVID vaccination booking calendar and platform before making the calendar publicly available. This is to tailor and ensure the pharmacy details and COVID vaccination booking appointments reflect your particular pharmacy’s circumstances. To assist you in this CPNI will be providing interactive training and demonstrating the booking platform to Contractors early next week. It is important that you do not make the calendar publicly available until such times that you make the changes to template COVID Vaccination booking system that you will receive from SBM.
We also continue to liaise with HSCB, PHA and DoH(NI) in relation to both the Vaccine Management System and the imminent commencement of the service. CPNI will provide further updates on all these matters to you over the coming days.
Please do not hesitate to contact CPNI offices should you require any additional information at this stage.
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
Dear Colleague
CPNI continues to liaise with SimplyBook.Me (SBM) in developing the online COVID-19 VBS that can be used by members of the public for booking COVID-19 vaccination appointments from their pharmacy of choice.
Contractors can expect to receive a contractual agreement from SBM within 24 hours and you will be asked to complete and return it to SBM to enable your pharmacy account(s) to be set-up.
This will be sent to the pharmacy contact email address you provided to CPNI last week, for sharing with SBM. I would ask you to ensure that the appropriate person within your pharmacy (group), with responsibility for setting up accounts with suppliers, is notified and made aware of the deadline for return of the contract to SimplyBook.Me after it is issued by SBM.
I appreciate the turn-around times for providing information in relation to SimplyBook.Me are very tight. I would however ask you to prioritise this matter to ensure your vaccine booking system can be developed in advance of the COVID-19 vaccination service commencing next week.
Kind regards
SENT ON BEHALF OF GERARD GREENE Chief Executive
Dear Colleague
Please find attached information for the upcoming Virtual ECHO Session on Monday 22 March 2021 at 19:30-21:00.
Please find attached HERE information for how to register attendance. Please ensure any of your pharmacists providing the COVID vaccination service, and who have not previously registered for the Community Pharmacy ECHO sessions, do so in advance. Deadline for registration is 3pm.
Please find attached the Agenda including Zoom Meeting ID & Passcode ahead of the Session.
The topic of discussion will be ‘Community Pharmacy COVID Vaccination Service’.
SENT ON BEHALF OF VANESSA CHAMBERS Head of Policy and Development
Dear Contractor
You will be aware from previous CPNI updates that cyber incidents – such as account compromises, malware attacks and phishing – are experienced by businesses worldwide on a daily basis, with home working and the COVID crisis increasing the risk of attacks.
On 2 March 2021, Microsoft made public that sophisticated actors had attacked a number of Exchange servers. In response to this Microsoft released multiple security updates for affected servers. This does not affect Exchange Online (see details in this link). The updates were released ahead of the monthly update cycle because four of the seven vulnerabilities have been used in ongoing attacks. The security updates fix the vulnerabilities exploited in the attack.
A wide variety of threat actors are using automated tools to scan for Exchange servers where updates are not installed. The actors then install malicious software to servers identified as vulnerable. On 11 March it was reported that ransomware actors have also exploited these vulnerabilities, or made use of the installed malicious software, to install ransomware on a network.
ACTION
Contractors are advised to:
Note the details in the attached link and action as appropriate.
Contractors are reminded that the storage and back up of patient sensitive data and any amendments to your systems should only be carried out in line with advice from your IT or email supplier, PMR system provider and in line with Data Protection legislation.
Regards – Mike
SENT ON BEHALF OF Prof. Mike Mawhinney Head of Regulatory Affairs
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