Wigan services
In the event that your pharmacy needs to suspend the delivery of locally commissioned services due to closures (either planned, unplanned or partial closures) contractors are responsible for notifying the commissioner.
Wigan Locally Commissioned Services:
Sexual Health Services
Emergency Hormone Contraception (EHC)
| Service Specification – 01/09/2021 – 31/08/2023
Levonorgestrel PGD – 28/09/2025 – 28/02/2026
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Supporting Documents
Supporting Information – Information from Spectrum COVID-19 Updates |
Key Contact
Paul Jamieson Lead Officer Public Health People Directorate Children Adults and Families Wigan Council Wigan Life Centre (South site), College Avenue, Wigan WN1 1NJ
Telephone:01942 827 447
Email: P.Jamieson@wigan.gov.uk
Substance Misuse Services
Supervised Consumption
| Service Specification – 31/03/2021 – 31/03/2022
Extension Letter – 31/03/2022 |
Key Contact
Name: Lorraine Maden
Role: Lead Clinical Pharmacist https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/services
Telephone: 07976303835
Email: lorraine.maden@wearewithyou.org.uk
Needle and Syringe Exchange
| Service Specification – 31/03/2021 – 31/03/2022
Extension Letter – 31/03/2022 |
Key Contact
Name: Lorraine Maden
Role: Lead Clinical Pharmacist https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/services
Telephone: 07976303835
Email: lorraine.maden@wearewithyou.org.uk
Alcohol Services
Stop Smoking Services
Smoking Cessation & NRT Voucher Scheme
| The service is no longer commissioned locally in this locality. The service has been moved to National. |
Key Contact
Name: James O’Neill
Role: Public Health Service Manager, Adult Health and Social Care, Wigan Council
Email: James.O’Neil@wigan.gov.uk / jamesoneil@nhs.net
Telephone: 07528085816
Champix PGD
Currently not commissioned in this locality
End of Life Services
Palliative Care Stock Holding
| Service Specification – 31/01/2014 – 31/03/2024
Wigan List of Pharmacies providing Palliative Care Up until 31st July pharmacies were reporting on stock holding on a weekly basis to support the COVID-19 response. This weekly reporting is no longer a requirement. It has been agreed that contractors are now only required to report monthly as per the service specification. |
Key Contact
Name: Zoe Trumper
Role: Acting Assistant Director of Medicines Management NHS Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
Telephone: 01942 482747
Fax: 0203 009 5555
Email: zoe.trumper@wiganboroughccg.nhs.uk
Web: http://www.wiganboroughccg.nhs.uk
Out of Hours
| Please refer to the Palliative Care service updated specification for details on out of hours. |
Key Contact
Name: Zoe Trumper
Role: Acting Assistant Director of Medicines Management NHS Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
Telephone: 01942 482747
Fax: 0203 009 5555
Email: zoe.trumper@wiganboroughccg.nhs.uk
Web: http://www.wiganboroughccg.nhs.uk
Minor Ailments Services
GM Scheme
| Service Specification – 31/12/2023 – 31/03/2024
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Supporting Documents
GM MAS Formulary Update – February 2023 GM MAS Patient eligibility to access the service Formulary Branded – Generic products Commissioning Statement for all GM CCGs -01/09/2019 Minor-Ailments consultation form -22/10/2020 GM MAS PharmOutcomes Module Overview -11/09/2020
Visit our main GM Minor Ailments Scheme page for more information and resources |
Key Contact
Diane Murphy NHSE/I
Email: england.gmtop@nhs.net
Local Scheme
Currently not commissioned in the locality.
Eye Condition Services
Covid-19 Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES)
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CUES Service Summary One Pager CUES Practice list Wigan September 2020 PE UES Poster AW 1b practice poster PE UES Poster AW 2b practice poster Urgent Eyecare Service Leaflet During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CUES (COVID-19 Urgent Eye Care Service) was launched to support the pandemic. This service now supersedes the Minor Eye Condition Service (MECS) The CUES is an extended version of the MECS service which allows remote consultation and uses IT capability to provide a digital service. In some areas, an Independent prescriber may be used to prescribe medicines for the patient. For further details please refer to the service summary, available here Where a medicine is required, Pharmacies will directly be supplying or selling (where appropriate), “Pharmacy only” (P) medicines and General Sales List (GSL) medicines, and the following POMs: chloramphenicol, cyclopentolate hydrochloride, fusidic acid and tropicamide. In these new CUES areas, patients will be provided with a private written order for purchase items over the counter or access the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) in areas where the MAS is commissioned. For further information click here |
Minor Eye Conditions NHS Community Dispensing Service (MECS)
| Currently not commissioned in this locality |
Monitored Dosage Systems
| MDS service specification 31.01.2024-31.03.2024
Wigan CCG have provided the below update; Following our previous communication in August about changes to the MDS service claim platform, please see attached letter confirming the arrangements for the change of platform and details of how pharmacy contractors providing the CCG commissioned MDS service can submit claims. |
Supporting Documents
NHS contract letter to Pharmacies March 2019
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