We were delighted to welcome our NPA members to the NPA Scottish Member Forum in May, hosted by Sehar Shahid, NPA Scottish Board member, with expert content from Lisa Banks NPA MD of NPA Insurance, Community Pharmacy Scotland, and General Pharmaceutical Council and of course, most importantly, plenty of time to connect with other members.
A continuous dialogue with NPA members supports good governance, underpinning the drive for continuous improvement, whilst ensuring the NPA supports you on your journey.
Lisa Banks explained at the forum, the important enhancements NPAI has developed and delivered in the past year, culminating in winning the significant accolade of Specialist Coverage Award at the National Insurance Awards recently.
As Community Pharmacy’s responsibilities expand and diversify the NPA has reviewed our policyholders’ evolving protection requirements and developed specialist coverage with significant enhancements to our indemnity cover to provide assurance for members.
Our policy includes weight loss prescribing, and an extensive list of private treatments and advanced services such diabetes management, allergy and cholesterol testing, hair loss and erectile dysfunction without extra charge, helping pharmacies access new income streams.
The next NPA Scottish member forum is on the afternoon of 2nd October in Falkirk, and we have the next in our popular series of member independent prescribing workshops on the evening of 18th September near Edinburgh airport.
For IPs, new NPA practice and governance resources continue to be added to the NPA Independent Prescribing Hub page.
Keep an eye on the NPA events page for more details of Scottish member events at https://portal.npa.co.uk/npaportal/s/events or join our Scottish WhatsApp group to stay in touch.
The NPA supports patient safety across the entire pharmacy network by publishing learnings from incident reporting to the NPA from pharmacy teams using the NPA Scottish Patient Safety Reporting Platform.
The report published in June can be used to support quality improvement discussions with your team.
The NPA hosts a six monthly round table for the regulatory, professional and negotiating pharmacy organisations in Scotland to share patient safety insight.
If you would like to know more about and aspect of NPA member support, please contact [email protected].
