As part of the Year 4 & 5 funding settlement for community pharmacy, it was agreed that an urgent review of the price concession setting system would take place. Since this announcement, Community Pharmacy England has been working with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to determine improvements to the price concession system. As part of a
Read moreCommunity Pharmacy England will be hosting a webinar on price concessions to help to explain how the concessions system works and what happens when pharmacy owners report increased prices to us, and to answer your questions and hear further feedback for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). While the concessions system is designed
Read moreFollowing several weeks of discussion during which Community Pharmacy England made strong representations and put weekly evidence from pharmacy owners to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), late on Monday (July 31st) DHSC announced its final price concessions for July. Several of the prices announced represented improvements on the original DHSC offers following
Read moreFollowing 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 (31/07/2023) announced the following final list of price concessions for July 2023: Drug Pack size Price concession Aciclovir 200mg tablets 25 £1.76 Atorvastatin 20mg tablets 28 £3.38 Atorvastatin
Read moreDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Tegretol® (carbamazepine) 100mg tablets. MSN/2023/074 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 31st July 2023 Tegretol® (carbamazepine) 100mg tablets will be out of stock during August 2023 Tegretol® 200mg tablets and Tegretol® 100mg/5ml liquid remain available and will be able
Read moreDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Reboxetine (Edronax®) 4mg tablets. MSN/2023/073 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 31st July 2023 Reboxetine (Edronax®) 4mg tablets are out of stock from mid-August until the end of October 2023. Unlicensed imported stock is available (see details below) If
Read moreFollowing representations by Community Pharmacy England (CPE) on behalf of pharmacies, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has redetermined the reimbursement prices for Jext and Priadel preparations for July 2023 to reflect an increase in their NHS list price. On 1st July 2023 the list prices for Jext preparations were increased by the
Read moreDrug alert number: EL (23)A/27 Date issued: 31 July 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: various products manufactured by B.Braun Ltd. Gentamicin 3mg/ml solution for infusion, PL 03551/0117 Batch number Expiry date Pack size First distributed 21025402 31/12/2023 120ml Ecoflac Plus 01/03/2021 21056410 31/01/2024
Read moreCommunity Pharmacy England would like to remind pharmacy teams of the importance of submitting the FP34C declaration through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal no later than the 5th of each month (or the 6th where a bank holiday occurs during the first five days of the month) following that in which supply was made.
Read moreNational Patient Safety Alert: Potent synthetic opioids implicated in heroin overdoses and deaths National Patient Safety Alert Reference Number: NatPSA/2023/009/OHID Date issued: 26th July 2023 Brief description of the problem In the past 8 weeks there has been an elevated number of overdoses (with some deaths) in people who use drugs, primarily heroin, in many
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