CPS Snapshot - 3rd September 2026
Published: 3rd September 2026
A weekly snapshot of activity across CPS, highlighting recent work on policy, systems, and engagement across the network.
In the past week, the CPS team have:
We welcomed Sarah Staddon back from maternity leave on Tuesday - we're delighted to have her back in the team, and you will no doubt hear from Sarah soon!
We held our informal evening IP call on Thursday 27th - this runs every second month and gives our growing cohort of prescribers a chance to get together and share their experiences, feeding in to CPS to make sure we understand what's going well and any areas for development.
We met with the GPhC to discuss in more detail our response to the Supervision consultation earlier in the year - specifically looking at Superintendent Pharmacist rules and the 2-hour RP absence.
We had our newer Scottish Government pharmacy colleagues along to the office for a CPS "induction" and to get to know them better
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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The CPS Snapshot provides members with a regular overview of the work Community Pharmacy Scotland is undertaking on behalf of the sector. It highlights engagement with stakeholders, policy development, service improvement work and ongoing projects that support community pharmacy in Scotland.
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Updates include policy work, service development, system reviews, and engagement with partners across the pharmacy sector.
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- We have already had some informal conversations and some applications for our open Policy Officer (Pharmacist) role - take a look if you haven't already seen this!
- Graham presented the findings of his research on use of the CPS Shortage reporter to the team working on refreshing it, which has helped us really understand which improvements will best support our members. Maximising the use of this tool provides us with crucial evidence on medicines pricing that can inform price adjustments - so keep an eye out for some developments in the coming weeks (including a name change to something a bit more "Ronseal")!
- We took some new Scottish Government Pharmacy colleagues out to visit the team at Omnicare Tollcross in Edinburgh so that they could see all of the hard work that pharmacy teams put into supporting local communities, highlighting areas that our teams in turn need to be supported in.
- Adam and Gordon continued the work kicked off last week to review the PCR requirements for a supplier review.
- Digital Prescribing and Dispensing work continues to develop - this week's conversations were tackling the systems, processes and governance around prescription cancellations and our thoughts internally are very much turning to the support and resource that will be required for implementation.
- Adam met with Skills Development Scotland to understand what is changing in the world of skills and in particular apprenticeships - the entire system is being overhauled and we are keen that our members are able to benefit from this in the coming years.
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Correction to Creon® SSP information: SSP061 is extended until 8th January 2027, while SSP060 expired on 2nd October 2026.