We have been encouraging practices to
transfer Clinical Pharmacists from previous schemes to the new PCN ARRS scheme,
as this will be to the benefit both of those practices and their PCN in the
long term. As there are still some practices yet to take the necessary
action, we have requested that the deadline to make this change be changed and
we are pleased therefore to have agreed with NHS England that this will be
extended to 31 March 2020. In order to reduce future risk (of including these
Clinical Pharmacists in the baseline) for all members of PCNs, we advise that
practices seriously consider transferring any CPs on the previous national
schemes.
This extension to the deadline, and the information about funding for covering
management fees for subcontracts for Social Prescriber Link Workers have been
included in the latest update to the ARRS guidance and can be found at para 2.3.6 page
9 and 2.3.1 page 5 respectively.