Useful Links
This section contains some useful links to other relevant web pages.
- British National Formulary (BNF)
- BNF for Children
- Community Pharmacy Scotland
- National Pharmaceutical Association (NPA)
- NHS 24
- NHS National Education Scotland Training Portal (You will have to sign up for a username and password if you don't already have one)
- Practioner Services Divison (PSD)
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB)
- Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD)
- SHOW Community Pharmacy Website
Useful Forms & Links
Stores Order form (Purple forms, CP4/3s etc.)
Out-of-Stock (Alternative Medicine Request) Form (for pharmacies to use when patients present a prescription for a medicine which is out-of-stock/discontinued, and pharmacy needs to notify the GP and suggest an alternative medicine to be prescribed)
Prescription Tracker (on NSS website)
Pharmacy Closure Notification Form
Public Health Posters and Leaflets
If you wish to order copies of public health posters or patient leaflets, you should contact the APS Group. This includes MCR patient leaflets, NHS Pharmacy First Scotland leaflets, methotrexate patient booklets, steroid record cards, anti-coagulant therapy packs/books/alert cards, and NHS Pharmacy First Scotland posters.
A full list of currently available materials and contact details for APS can be found here.
GDPR
The Community Pharmacy Scotland GDPR Information Pack can be found here
Strategy
"Achieving Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care" document by NHS Scotland
Child Protection:
Support for carers:
- Carers of West Lothian www.carers-westlothian.com
- Vocal (Voice Of Carers Across Lothian) www.vocal.org.uk