Winter Guidance

During the festive season, it's important to communicate updates regarding your pharmacy business to your patients such as your opening hours, days you are closed and additional support available to customers.

This toolkit is designed to help NPA members with checking core and supplementary hours, suggestions for social media messaging and social graphics to use including when you are closed and to showcase your opening hours. Included we have included a guide for hosting a MP at your pharmacy – a great way to showcase your local service.

Check your core hours – Guide

We’re asking members to check their core and supplementary hours with their NHS commissioners as part of our ongoing funding campaign.

Clarifying your core hours will be helpful if you wish to reduce supplementary to core hours following the NPA’s ballot of members on actions to ease pressure on pharmacies, help short-term sustainability and protect services for the longer term.

• Read our easy to use guide

Invite your MP to see your brilliant service – Toolkit

Inviting your MP to visit your pharmacy is a fantastic way to showcase the amazing work of you and your team.

MPs are always keen to see dedicated community champions in their constituencies and are usually out of Westminster on Fridays and over the weekends to connect with local people.

The more MPs can see the amazing work pharmacies do in their communities, the more support we will have for our cause.

It’s easy to host an MP and is great profile for your pharmacy – this toolkit aims to make it simple, but remember, we are here to help. Email our parliamentary lead Neil on n.bhayani@npa.co.uk for advice.

Most of this toolkit is very relevant to other representatives – MPs, MSPs, MLAs, MSs or councillors.

• Tips on inviting MPs to your pharmacy
• Template letter
• Briefing for MPs – England
• Template press release and media assets

Social Media – Toolkit

• Social Media Festive Messaging
• Festive Social Media Graphics