Community Pharmacy England News

- 12TH NOVEMBER 2024
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Medicine Supply Notification: Sodium fusidate (Fucidin® ) 250mg tablets and fusidic acid (Fucidin® ) 250mg/5ml oral suspension
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Sodium fusidate (Fucidin®) 250mg tablets and fusidic acid (Fucidin®) 250mg/5ml oral suspension MSN/2024/107 Tier 2 medium impact Date of issue: 7th October 2024 Sodium fusidate (Fucidin®) 250mg tablets will be discontinued from mid-January 2025. Fusidic acid (Fucidin®) 250mg/5ml oral suspension will
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- 8TH NOVEMBER 2024
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Expiry of SSP076 Nyzamac® SR 60mg capsules
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that sufficient stock of Nyzamac® SR 60mg capsules is now available to meet normal demand. As a result the Serious Shortage Protocol (SSP), SSP076 Nyzamac® SR 60mg capsules expires at 23.59pm on Friday 8 November 2024. After this date, any prescriptions for Nyzamac® SR 60mg
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- 7TH NOVEMBER 2024
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MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Zoledronic Acid Ennogen 4mg/5ml concentrate for solution for infusion (Ennogen Healthcare Limited)
Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Zoledronic Acid Ennogen 4mg/5ml concentrate for solution for infusion (Ennogen Healthcare Limited) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/53 Date issued: 07 November 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Zoledronic Acid Ennogen 4mg/5ml concentrate for solution for infusion (Ennogen
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- 6TH NOVEMBER 2024
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MHRA Drug Safety Update: November 2024
A new Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Drug Safety Update (Vol 18 Issue 4 November 2024) has been published and includes articles on: MedSafetyWeek November 2024: your Yellow Card report helps prevent future harm to others and improves patient safety Letters and medicine recalls sent to healthcare professionals in October 2024 To see the
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- Community Pharmacy England News
- 5TH NOVEMBER 2024
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Book now for our OPD webinar
Community Pharmacy England will be hosting a webinar on the introduction of Original Pack Dispensing (OPD) on Monday 25th November at 7.30pm. In September amendments were made to the pharmacy regulations to introduce OPD +/- 10% dispensing for NHS prescriptions. From 1st January 2025, these amendments state that the supervising pharmacist must consider dispensing up to
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- 4TH NOVEMBER 2024
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Engaging with the NHS 10-Year Plan: Join our webinars
Community Pharmacy England will be hosting two webinars to discuss the Government’s NHS 10-year plan and to help pharmacy owners or others who want to feed into it. Last month the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched a national conversation on the NHS, seeking input and ideas to shape the future of
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- 4TH NOVEMBER 2024
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NHSBSA ‘Hints & Tips’ – Issue 57
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) produces a quarterly newsletter called “Hints & Tips for dispensing contractors”. The latest edition (Issue 57) contains some useful information and advice on: MYS July Activity: Tuesday 5 November 2024 deadline New ePACT2 dashboards: UTI and Pharmacy First 2024/25 seasonal flu vaccine reimbursement New oversupply data available in ePACT2
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- 1ST NOVEMBER 2024
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NHSBSA Online Webinars for Pharmacy Teams
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) host webinars to provide an insight into how they process and reimburse prescriptions. These sessions take place online and last approximately 60 minutes. During the sessions, pharmacy teams are shown how NHSBSA handle prescription submissions and are given an overview of the most common errors found on prescriptions submitted
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- Community Pharmacy England News
- 30TH OCTOBER 2024
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Chancellor sets out Autumn Budget
The Chancellor announced her Autumn Budget today (30th October), setting out the Government’s overarching spending plans for the next 18 months. The Budget promised an additional £22.6 billion for day-to-day healthcare spending, but the Chancellor made no specific pledges about supporting primary care or the community pharmacy sector. The Chancellor announced a number of changes
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- 30TH OCTOBER 2024
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October 2024 Price Concessions Final Update
Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (30/10/2024) announced the following final list of price concessions for October 2024: Drug Pack size Price concession Amantadine 100mg capsules 56 £17.66 Apixaban 2.5mg tablets 60 £7.21 Apixaban
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Medicine Supply Notification: Sodium fusidate (Fucidin® ) 250mg tablets and fusidic acid (Fucidin® ) 250mg/5ml oral suspension

Expiry of SSP076 Nyzamac® SR 60mg capsules

MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Zoledronic Acid Ennogen 4mg/5ml concentrate for solution for infusion (Ennogen Healthcare Limited)

MHRA Drug Safety Update: November 2024

Book now for our OPD webinar

Engaging with the NHS 10-Year Plan: Join our webinars

NHSBSA ‘Hints & Tips’ – Issue 57

NHSBSA Online Webinars for Pharmacy Teams

Chancellor sets out Autumn Budget

October 2024 Price Concessions Final Update

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