Representing, supporting, developing and promoting NHS Community Pharmacy in Surrey and Sussex
We are the unified local voice for the three local pharmaceutical committees (LPCs) in Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex.
We work with NHS England Area Teams, Local Authorities, CCGs and other healthcare professionals to help plan healthcare services.
We negotiate and discuss pharmacy services with commissioners and give advice to community pharmacy contractors and others wanting to know more about the 522 local pharmacies across Sussex and Surrey.
Community Pharmacy Easter opening times
Community Pharmacy will be open over Easter to help should residents in Sussex and Surrey need healthcare advice, and medicines....
Easter helps highlight the vital healthcare services that community pharmacy provides to its communities
As Easter approaches alongside the anniversary of the first lockdown, we are grateful that this will be a different Easter...
Pharmacies providing symptom-free community testing across all of Sussex
Last week we were trialling a Sussex wide symptom-free Community Testing Programme which aims to rapidly identify people who have...
More Sussex and Surrey pharmacies invited to apply to join C-19 vaccination effort, but don’t miss the application deadline says Julia Powell, new CEO
Last week (16 February) we heard that NHS England and NHS Improvement have identified where there is a need for...
Surrey and Sussex contractors urged to take part in national ‘pharmacy advice’ audit
The audit, in the week of 25 January, aims to assess how much unpaid advice is being provided to patients...
Sussex first pharmacy-led vaccination centre opens today
Community pharmacies around England, including Superdrug in Guildford, began delivering Coronavirus vaccinations last week and today (21 January) Ticehurst Pharmacy...
Surrey community pharmacy site is one of the first to join UK COVID-19 vaccination efforts
It has been announced that six pharmacies across the UK will start vaccinating people from priority groups today, with a...
Press coverage – pharmacies and C-19 vaccination
This morning’s Telegraph ran a front-page article on pharmacy’s ask for a greater role in the COVID-19 vaccination programme. The...
Pandemic Delivery Service restarts for patients in Tier 4
Following the Government’s announcement of the national lockdown and advice for all Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) patients to recommence shielding,...
Police & Crime Commissioner, Katy Bourne, visits Kamsons Pharmacy, Crawley, to hear about abusive behaviour suffered by community pharmacy
This week, Police & Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne visited Kamsons Pharmacy in Crawley to talk to staff about the abusive...
New chief executive appointed
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Julia Powell as the new chief executive of Community Pharmacy Surrey & Sussex....
Partnership working to help communities feel prepared ahead of the festive period
With the onset of the festive season and the bank holidays ahead, this year more than ever, we know the...
Latest PSNC News
Medicine Supply Notification: Trifluoperazine 1mg/5ml syrup (Advanz Pharma) – Update
Update: (09/04/2021) Further supplies now expected late July 2021 Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine...
April 9, 2021Medicine Supply Notification: Haloperidol 5mg/5ml oral solution sugar free (Thame Laboratories) – Update
Update: (09/04/2021) Further supplies now expected late Summer 2021 Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a...
April 9, 2021Medicine Supply Notification: Diamorphine hydrochloride powder for reconstitution and injection 5mg and 10mg ampoules
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a Medicine Supply Notification (MSN) for Diamorphine hydrochloride powder for reconstitution...
April 9, 2021C-19 test distribution service: update on ordering limits
Supplies of lateral flow devices (LFDs) for use in the NHS community pharmacy COVID-19 distribution service are initially being limited to one carton...
April 9, 2021Events
FULLY FUNDED Health Champion training – up to three places per pharmacy in Sussex and Surrey
Sunday, 25 April, 2021, See details
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