New MYS route for temporay suspension notifications

Today, NHS England has announced that notifications of unplanned temporary suspensions of services (closures) can now be made via the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal.

The Terms of Service require NHS community pharmacy owners to have a business continuity plan for temporary suspensions due to illness or other reason beyond their control and to action the plan when necessary. One action of any plan is to notify the Integrated Care Board (ICB) of an unplanned temporary suspension, or a likely temporary suspension. The MYS portal provides a digital route for notifications.

The MYS portal can be updated with one or more unplanned, temporary suspensions and is editable for 7 days after it is submitted. It can be used for unplanned temporary suspensions and deleted if there is no subsequent suspension of services.

At this stage, the MYS portal notification route is optional.  The hard-copy notification route can still be used. This can be found on the NHS England website titled Annex 18.

More information on unplanned temporary suspensions can be found HERE.

(Sourced from: CPE website)