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

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NHSE Midlands Pharmacy Assets Updated

NHSE Midlands have updated some of their pages for pharmacy professionals in the Midlands, including Pharmacy First and Contraception service top tips and highlights. These…

13th July 2025

Midlands Greener NHS

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

8th July 2025

Reminder regarding FreeStyle Libre 2 and Dexcom One product changes

FreeStyle Libre 2 Plus (FSL 2 Plus) has been launched and is prescribable on FP10. FSL 2 sensors are being discontinued in August 2025. Dexcom…

5th July 2025

NHS England Incident Reporting

NHS England have updated the Approved Particulars for Incident Reporting which outlines the requirements to fulfil your Terms of Service under Paragraph 28 (2) (c)…

5th July 2025

Share your views about pharmaceutical needs in Staffordshire

For Staffordshire Pharmacies only The Staffordshire Health and Wellbeing Board have written a new draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment that aims to make sure all residents…

5th July 2025

July Newsletter

The CPSSOT July newsletter was sent to pharmacy NHS emails and those that have signed up to receive communications on Tuesday 1st July 2025. To…

1st July 2025

Latest Community Pharmacy England News

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Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire 2025/26

Over 85% of community pharmacy owners are still yet to complete the 2025/26 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire. We encourage pharmacy owners who…

11th July 2025

Otomize® ear spray 5ml now available as a generic

Pharmacy teams should be aware that the brand Otomize® ear spray has been discontinued and will no longer be available for community pharmacies to order…

11th July 2025

National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage Of Bumetanide 1mg Tablets – Updated

Update: 11 July 2025 DHSC have provided an update that Bumetanide 1mg tablets are in limited supply until late July 2025 National Patient Safety Alert:…

11th July 2025