Welcome to Community Pharmacy Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Representing community pharmacy, working in collaboration with others, to improve the quality of health and well-being of the people in our counties. At present we represent 117 community pharmacies across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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Children’s Flu Vac Webinar on Demand

A recording of CPE's Childhood Flu Vaccination Service Webinar is now vailable on demand, along with the presentation slides.

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Pharmacy Contraception Service Webinar - Tuesday 9th September 19:00 – 20:00

NHS England Midlands Region will be hosting a Contraception Service Update webinar for community pharmacy teams in preparation for the expansion of the service to include emergency contraception as part of the service.

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CPPE Workshops West Midlands October 2025 – March 2026

Download the flyer for the upcoming CPPE in person training courses in the West Midlands.

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Virtual Outcomes Pharmacy Training: Skin Rashes in Children

Virtual Outcomes has launched part 3 of their Skin Conditions training series: Skin Rashes in Children.

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HW ICS Newsletter July

Read the July edition of the Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS newsletter.

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Community Pharmacy Herefordshire and Worcestershire Latest News

Provisional dates of CPCF changes announced

Provisional dates have now been announced for the agreed changes to the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2025/26 to be introduced. These are summarised in…

4th September 2025

Bank Holiday Opening Intentions and Bank Holiday Rota EOI Christmas and New Year 25/26

The following communication was emailed to all West Midlands Pharmacies earlier this month by the NHS Pharmacy Team. Please note the deadline to return the…

28th August 2025

CPPE: Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician Programme

The CPPE Accuracy checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) programme aims to support pharmacy technicians to: develop the skills required to be a safe final accuracy checking pharmacy technician improve…

12th August 2025

Virtual Outcomes: Skin Rashes in Children- Part 3

Virtual Outcomes has launched part 3 of their Skin Conditions training series: Skin Rashes in Children . This module adresses the folowing questions and more:…

5th August 2025

CPPE Workshops West Midlands October 2025 – March 2026

Please find attached a PDF flyer, which details the upcoming CPPE in person training courses in the West Midlands: CPPE West Midlands Events Flyer 25-26

1st August 2025

Flu Vaccinations National Booking System

Community pharmacies providing the Flu Vaccination Advanced Service are invited to use the National Booking System (NBS) for the 2025/26 flu season. This follows last…

31st July 2025

Community Pharmacy England Latest News

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Pharmacy IT workstreams update published as IT group meets

Community Pharmacy England has released an IT bulletin update ahead of the Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG) meeting for its Autumn meeting. Recent developments…

15th September 2025

DHSC guidance for PNA development

Last month, the Department of Health and Social Care updated its information pack for local authority Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) on Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments…

12th September 2025

Additional 1st October Regulatory Changes

Several regulatory changes are due to come into effect on 1st October, having been included in the amendment regulations (The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and…

12th September 2025

Reminder: discontinuation of FreeStyle® Libre 2 Sensor

Pharmacy teams should be aware that FreeStyle® Libre 2 Sensor (Abbott Laboratories Ltd) was discontinued in August 2025 and will be deleted from Part IX of…

11th September 2025

MPs get latest local pharmacy data at Parliamentary event

Community Pharmacy England met with MPs and Parliamentary staff at the Houses of Parliament earlier this week (Monday 8th September 2025) to discuss the opportunities…

10th September 2025

Childhood Flu vac: PGD published

NHS England has authorised and published the patient group direction (PGD) for use in the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Advanced service from 1st October 2025.…

8th September 2025