BLMK ICB
CONTACTS
| Associate Director Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation | Fiona Garnett | fiona.garnett@nhs.net |
| Head of Community Pharmacy Integration | Funmi Balogun | f.balogun1@nhs.net |
| Business Support Manager, Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation | Samantha Golton | samantha.golton@nhs.net |
Health Promotion Campaign.
All BLMK contractors should have received an email, from the ICB, to their NHS email account w/c 1 September 2025. The email contains the following information:
As part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 2025/26, all contractors are required to participate in:
- Up to two national public health campaigns
- Two ICB-selected local health promotion campaigns
Following consultation with key system stakeholders including the LPC, Public Health, and ICB Primary Care leaders, we are pleased to confirm the two ICB-led campaigns for BLMK this year, both aligned with national campaigns and existing pharmacy services.
- Hypertension Awareness Campaign
Timeline: 4–6 weeks from early September 2025
Purpose: To maximise the impact of the national, Know Your Numbers Week(8-14TH September by identifying undiagnosed hypertension and managing patients already on antihypertensives
Target Cohorts:
- Adults aged 40+ with no recent BP recorded
- Patients on antihypertensive medication with no recent BP record
- Underserved populations
- Smoking Cessation Support Campaign
Timeline: October 2025, aligned with the national Stoptober campaign
Purpose: To encourage quit attempts through pharmacy engagement and refer patients into commissioned Stop Smoking Services, offering NRT and brief interventions
Target Cohorts:
- Adult smokers, especially those receiving flu/COVID vaccines
- General population visiting pharmacy during flu season
Please complete campaign data collection via the following MS Forms link:
🔔 Reminder
Your participation in these campaigns is a contractual requirement. These campaigns are also a significant opportunity to demonstrate the value of community pharmacy in prevention, health promotion, and health inequalities.
MiDoS Access for BLMK Community Pharmacies
BLMK ICB have been rolling out the ‘MiDoS’ tool to health, social, community, mental health and voluntary sector professionals across BLMK. MiDoS is an online service directory that has been developed locally with robust validation processes in place with the main benefit being that the services are all in one central place. The MiDoS directory contains a wide range of services that can support professionals with signposting patients to alternative services that may meet their need.
All GP practices and PCNs have been given access to MiDoS and the ICB are now giving community pharmacies access to the tool. MiDoS can be accessed via the relevant link below;
Community pharmacies are able to access this link via mobile phones as well as from a computer – please see the attached user guide on how to create a shortcut to MiDoS on a computer desktop.
User guide – creating a MiDoS shortcut
BLMK residents will be given access to a public MiDoS page during October 2025 and will have their own link to MiDoS so please do not share your MiDos link with the public as it will not have the correct permission levels for public use.
If any community pharmacies have any questions or would like to arrange to have a demo of MiDoS please contact blmkicb.dos@nhs.net and the team will get back to you.
Medicines Management
- Self-care medicines position locally has been strengthened by an NHSE consultation. https://www.england.nhs.uk/medicines/conditions-for-which-over-the-counter-items-should-not-routinely-be-prescribed/
You can find a variety of prescribing information on the MK Formulary website. https://www.formularymk.nhs.uk/
Medicines Optimisation BLMK https://medicines.bedfordshirelutonandmiltonkeynes.icb.nhs.uk/
Generic email address for the Milton Keynes Care Home Medicines Optimisation Team: blmkicb.mkcarehomespharmacy@nhs.net
BLMK ICB Newsletters
| April 2023 | BLMK ICB Care Homes Medicines Optimisation Team Newsletter – April 2023 |
| July 2023 | BLMK APC Newsletter July 2023 |
The University of Bedfordshire are looking for pharmacies to participate in an Automated
Medication Device RCT.
Full information can be found on Automated Medication Device – Pharmacy
