Community Pharmacy Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent – Your Community Pharmacy portal for Staffs & Stoke-on-Trent

Welcome to the website for Community Pharmacy Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

We represent the views, interest and priorities of pharmacy contractors across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

CPE Pharmacy Fast Facts

CPE have developed a media lines briefing note for anyone – pharmacy owners, pharmacists, LPCs, or others – asked questions by the press about the Pharmacy First/Pharmacy Contraception Service/Blood Pressure Checks services. To access, please follow the link below

Pharmacy First

More information on the Pharmacy First Service and resources for pharmacy teams can be found on our dedicated Pharmacy First page

Local Prescription Ordering Direct (POD) Pilot

The ICB and Meir PCN are piloting a POD for their patients. For more information and to access the community pharmacy POD flowchart, follow the link

#Pharmacies of Tomorrow

Community Pharmacy England commissioned leading health think tanks Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund to develop a vision for community pharmacy. More information and next steps following on from the resulting independent report can be found on CPE

Covid-19 Dashboard

The NHS is offering treatments to those people with COVID-19 who are at highest risk of becoming seriously ill, supply of LFD test kits through community pharmacy and Covid-19 vaccinations. For more information, visit our Covid-19 Dashboard

LPC News

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September Newsletter

The CPSSOT September newsletter was sent to pharmacy NHS emails and those that have signed up to receive communications on Tuesday 2nd September 2025. To…

9th September 2025

NHSE Midlands Pharmacy Leadership Team Newsletter: Script

The latest Midlands Pharmacy Leadership Team’s Newsletter is now available and features articles on: Latest calls for evidence Latest update on the Community Pharmacy Contractual…

9th September 2025

Pharmacy Show 2025

Registration is open for the 2025 Pharmacy Show at the NEC on 12th and 13th October Welcome to The Pharmacy Show 2025

19th August 2025

2025 PrescQIPP Awards

The 2025 PrescQIPP Awards event is on Tuesday 7th October and you can register to attend following this link 2025 PrescQIPP Awards This year’s awards…

19th August 2025

Midlands Greener NHS

The Midlands Greener NHS have shared their August newsletter. For more information and to access and sign up for future mailings of this newsletter, click…

19th August 2025

New Services Resources

NHSE Midlands have developed a number of new resources to aid service delivery in Community Pharmacies which are available below and on the NHSE Midlands…

4th August 2025

Latest Community Pharmacy England 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