Additional Winter Funding Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB
Written by AlisonFreemantle on Friday 7th November 2025
Apply before Sunday 30th November
We’re pleased to announce this year’s additional winter funding from Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB, full details in the attached document.
This year the scheme is split into 2 parts each attracting funding of at least £900. Pharmacies can decide whether to take part in Tier 1 or Tier 1 and Tier 2.
Tier 1: For all community pharmacies within NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight who meet the requirements for participating in the scheme
- Must be providing Pharmacy First, Pharmacy Contraception Service and Hypertension Case Finding Service (these services support creating capacity within general practice).
- Must be providing the Discharge Medicine Service.
- Community Pharmacy should be explicit in terms of the Daily/Weekly capacity they can offer to the system. As minimum they will aim to achieve 25 clinical pathways a month.
- Will be able to accept referrals for Pharmacy First from urgent care settings via NHS mail. This will support the ICB winter campaign in increasing awareness of patients presenting at the correct setting for health needs.
- Provide evidence of engagement /trying to engage with GP surgery and sharing their capacity for providing all three service (PF, PCS and HCFS) to support primary care access within ICB.
Tier 2: For community pharmacies within NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight who will be able to increase delivery of pharmacy services measured from submission data November 2025- February 2026
- Increase in delivery of clinical pathway with 5% more across the four months cumulative compared to last year.
- Able to support the GP practice going live with referring patients into the Contraception Service.
- If approached by a GP practice for support with CVD prevention able to support BP monitoring of hypertensive patients by providing the HCFS.
Pharmacies need to complete the below expression of interest form by Sunday 30th November to participate.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB Additional Winter Funding Expression of Interest – Fill in form