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Local Registration Authorities (RA) are responsible for registering pharmacy staff for smartcards. PCTs have responsibility for establishing their own Registration Authority service – this may be within a primary care trust, as part of a shared local health community service or a wider shared service.
All Pharmacy staff registering for a Smartcard for the first time will have to go through the full registration process which includes identity checks that satisfy government standard ‘e-GIF Level 3’. This means providing at least three forms of ID (photo and non-photo), including proof of address and attending a face-to-face meeting with the PCT Registration Authority. Contact your local PCT Registration Authority or LPC to find out what arrangements are in place locally for this meeting, for example Registration Authority visits to pharmacies or pharmacy specific sessions at the PCT.
Some LPCs have posted details of local arrangements on their websites. LPC Websites can be accessed through our online LPC Website Portal.
Where PCTs and LPCs have provided us with this information, it is copied below. LPCs and PCTs should email Margaret Kemp with a summary of information they would like included in this section of the site.
Blackburn with Darwen and East Lancashire PCTs
The majority of pharmacists in the area have now been registered and have collected their Smartcards. If you have not been registered, or have not yet collected your card, please contact the Registration Authority (details below) to make an appointment.
Smartcard certificates will expire after 2 years; therefore the earliest Pharmacist Smartcards in this area will begin to run out at the start of April 2008.
Certificates can be renewed by the Registration Authority up to 3 months prior to expiry and will avoid the user being denied access to the Electronic Prescription Service.
The Registration Authority is based at Cobham House, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB1 2EE. Please contact Ian Price on 01254 226835 or Geoff Tanner on 01254 226836.
Buckingham EPS Registration Information
Milton Keynes
All pharmacies have received EPS01 forms and instructions from Janet Corbett, Chief Pharmacist. These should be returned to her completed, but unsigned, by all pharmacists and locums. Please make as many copies of the form as you need.
One of the Registration Authority officers will contact you to make an appointment to check documents and take photographs. They will arrange a time to return to issue your cards, and check with you that they work.
If you are a locum, and have not received a form, please make an appointment to visit the RA Manager at Milton Keynes Hospital. Your smart card will be issued at the time.
Contacts:
Registration Authority Manager:
mike.thomas@mkgeneral.nhs.uk 01908-660033 Extn 2474
Registration Authority Agents: corinne.brown@mkgeneral.nhs.uk 01908-660033 Extn 2474
kay.kingsland@mkgeneral.nhs.uk 01908-660033 Extn 2474
Mid and South Bucks
Most pharmacists are now registered, and cards are being issued. If you have not yet been registered, please contact the team (below) to make an appointment.
Contacts:
Registration Authority Manager:
Lin.Wylie@buckspct.nhs.uk 01296 508715 (answer machine for messages out of hours)
Registration Authority Agents:
Julie.Miller@buckspct.nhs.uk 01296 318607 (answer machine for messages out of hours)
Dudley Beacon & Castle PCT and Dudley South PCT
If you have not already obtained your smartcard, please contact the PCT urgently, particularly if you are a locum pharmacist who has not already registered with another PCT.
To obtain your smartcard, please contact Stuart Ward (System Access Administrator) on 01384 366993, or Jim Dempster (RA Manager) on 01384 366609 for an appointment between the hours of 9.30am and 4.00pm. You will need to visit the PCT offices in St John’s House, Union Street, Dudley.
If you have any queries, please contact either Stuart Ward or Jim Dempster on the numbers shown above.
Greater Nottingham LPC (Broxtowe & Hucknall, Gedling, Nottingham City & Rushcliffe PCTs)
Smartcard issuance information for pharmacists working or resident in the Greater Nottingham Area:
Times: Smartcard sessions for Pharmacists are held on the first Wednesday afternoon of each month. Appointments at these sessions are available in 15 minute slots from 2pm-5:30pm.
Venue: Linden House, 261 Beechdale Rd, Aspley, Nottingham, NG8 3EY
For further information and booking please contact H.I.S. Admin, (0115) 942 8691 or Paul Miller, RA Manager (0115) 956 0338. Email: ra.smartcards@nottingham-his.nhs.uk
Please note that attendance is strictly by appointment only.
Newark & Sherwood PCT PCTs
If you are a locum pharmacist residing in the Newark & Sherwood PCT district and you haven't yet obtained a smartcard, please contact Andy Spencer (RA Agent) on 01636 670624, to arrange an appointment.
Sandwell PCTs (including Oldbury & Smethwick PCT, Rowley Regis & Tipton PCT and Wednesbury & West Bromwich PCT)
Weekly Registration Sessions to take place as follows:
Wednesdays 10:00am – 12:00pm
commencing 7th June 2006 and every week until further notice.
Kingston House, 438 High Street, West Bromwich, B70 9LD.
Pharmacists should report to reception and ask for one of the following people: Neil Parkes, Jenny Harding or Angela Sinar.
For further information please contact Dawn Patrice on 0121 612 1542 or Rachael Adams on 0121 612 1692
Stockport PCT
Any pharmacist who has not attended a meeting needs to contact Human Resources at Stockport PCT
Surrey PCT
If you have not been registered, or have not yet collected your card, please follow this guidance:
Stage One:
Complete the EPS01 Registration form part B, having read form A, which can be downloaded from the PSNC website.
Please send your completed form to the following address and we will sign your form:
Harsha Vara or Jane Ward,
Community Pharmacy Development Officer, Surrey PCT, Cedar Court, Guildford Road, Leatherhead
KT22 9RX .
Stage Two:
This is then registered at 18 Mole Business Park ,Leatherhead with:
Colin Lee tel. 01372 776086 or 01372 776076
Registration Authority Manager,
Directorate of Knowledge Management
The Registration Authority officers will contact you to make an appointment to check documents and take photographs. They will arrange a time to return to issue your smart card, and check with you that they work.
The following documents will need to be shown at the appointment:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society certificate -National Insurance number evidence -Confirmation of your current address- utility bill and Bank statement (must be less than 3 months old) and current passport / or photographic driving licence -Or you can provide a valid Passport and Photographic Driving Licence with one utility bill or bank statement (less than 3 months old)
If you have any further information please contact Colin Lee on the above contact details.
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