Pandemic Delivery Service Archive

Published on: 11th November 2021 | Updated on: 30th March 2022

This page contains archive information on the Pandemic Delivery Service related to its use for clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients and in local outbreaks.

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Service commences 9th April 2020

Service Launch: the Community Pharmacy Pandemic Delivery Service : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Pandemic Delivery Service: Are you clear on how to deliver it? : Community Pharmacy England Main site

1st to 31st August 2020

For shielded patients who live in the following local outbreak areas:

The original Leicester lockdown area, announced on 29th June 2020 (Postcodes);
Blackburn with Darwen (Postcodes); and
Luton (Postcodes)

Pandemic Delivery Service extended for patients in local outbreak areas : Community Pharmacy England Main site

1st to 7th September 2020

For shielded patients who live in the following local outbreak areas:

Leicester City lockdown area (Postcodes)
Blackburn with Darwen (Postcodes)

Pandemic Delivery Service: further extension for patients in local outbreak areas : Community Pharmacy England Main site

From 8th September 2020 up to 23rd September 2020

For shielded patients who live in the following local outbreak areas:

9 wards within South and West Blackburn, Darwen and rural areas outlined in THIS LINK until 21st September 2020;
8 wards within North East Blackburn outlined in THIS LINK until 23rd September 2020; and
Leicester City as outlined in THIS LINK until 23rd September 2020.

Pandemic Delivery Service: another extension for patients in local outbreak areas : Community Pharmacy England Main site

24th September 2020 until 5th October 2020

For shielded patients who live in the following local outbreak areas:

8 wards within North East Blackburn outlined in THIS LINK; and
Leicester City as outlined in THIS LINK.

Pandemic Delivery Service: further extension for patients in local outbreak areas : Community Pharmacy England Main site

5th November 2020 and up until 3rd December 2020 across England

Pandemic Delivery Service restarts across England : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Reminder: Pandemic Delivery Service ends today : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Tier 4 areas from 21st December 2020 until 18th January 2021

For CEV patients living in one of the following Tier 4 areas:

London – all 32 London boroughs plus the City of London. South East – Kent and Medway; Buckinghamshire; Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead and West Berkshire); Surrey (excluding Waverley); Hastings and Rother; Havant, Gosport and Portsmouth. East of England – Hertfordshire; Essex (excluding Tendring, Uttlesford and Colchester); Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton; Peterborough.

Pandemic Delivery Service restarts for patients in Tier 4 : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Tier 4 areas from 26th December 2020 until 18th January 2021

For CEV patients living in one of the following Tier 4 areas:

South East – Brighton and Hove; Southampton; Oxfordshire (Cherwell; Oxford; South Oxfordshire; Vale of White Horse; West Oxfordshire); Surrey (Waverley); West Sussex (Adur; Arun; Chichester; Crawley; Horsham; Mid Sussex; Worthing); East Sussex (Eastbourne; Lewes; Wealden); Hampshire (Basingstoke and Deane; East Hampshire; Eastleigh; Fareham; Hart; Rushmoor; Test Valley; Winchester).East of England – Norfolk (Breckland; Broadland; Great Yarmouth; King’s Lynn and West Norfolk; North Norfolk; Norwich; South Norfolk); Suffolk (Babergh; Ipswich; Mid Suffolk); East Suffolk; West Suffolk; Cambridgeshire (Cambridge; East Cambridgeshire; Fenland; Huntingdonshire; South Cambridgeshire); Essex (Colchester; Tendring; Uttlesford).

Pandemic delivery service to be extended to new Tier 4 areas : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Tier 4 areas from 31st December 2020 until 23:59 on 1st February 2021

For CEV patients living in one of the following Tier 4 areas:

Leicester City
Leicestershire (Oadby and Wigston, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Blaby, Charnwood, North West Leicestershire, Melton)
Lincolnshire (City of Lincoln, Boston, South Kesteven, West Lindsey, North Kesteven, South Holland, East Lindsey)
Northamptonshire (Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough)
Derby and Derbyshire (Derby, Amber Valley, South Derbyshire, Bolsover, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak)
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (Gedling, Ashfield, Mansfield, Rushcliffe, Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, Broxtowe)
Birmingham and Black Country (Dudley, Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton)
Coventry
Solihull
Warwickshire (Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwick, North Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (East Staffordshire, Stafford, South Staffordshire, Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Staffordshire Moorlands, Newcastle under Lyme, Tamworth, Stoke-on-Trent)
Lancashire (Burnley, Pendle, Blackburn with Darwen, Ribble Valley, Blackpool, Preston, Hyndburn, Chorley, Fylde, Lancaster, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre)
Cheshire and Warrington (Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Warrington)
Cumbria (Eden, Carlisle, South Lakeland, Barrow-in-Furness, Copeland, Allerdale)
Greater Manchester (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)
Tees Valley (Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees )
North East (County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland)
Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cheltenham)
Somerset Council (Mendip, Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton, South Somerset)
Swindon
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Isle of Wight
New Forest

Further extension to Pandemic Delivery Service in new Tier 4 areas : Community Pharmacy England Main site

5th January 2021 to 21st February 2021 (inclusive)

Pandemic Delivery Service now active across England : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Shielding advice extended and new patient cohort added : Community Pharmacy England Main site

19th February 2021 to 31st March 2021 (inclusive)

Pandemic Delivery Service extended : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Pandemic Delivery Service: funding changes and addition of self-isolators : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Shielding for CEV patients to stop from 1st April 2021

Shielding for CEV patients to stop from 1st April 2021 : Community Pharmacy England Main site

Resources

Patient leaflet – lockdown medicine deliveries to end 31st July 2020

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