Class 2 Medicines Recall: Sandimmun Oral Solution (Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK) Drug alert number: EL(22)A/40 Date issued: 20 September 2022 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Sandimmun Oral Solution PL 00101/0124 Batch Number Expiry Date Pack Size First Distributed ADP326002 November 2024 50ml 06/05/2022 Active Pharmaceutical
Read moreThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (20/09/2022) granted the following initial list of price concessions: Drug Pack size Price concession Alendronic acid 70mg tablets 4 £11.45 Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £13.94 Amisulpride 200mg tablets 60 £28.57 Amisulpride 50mg tablets 60 £9.20 Amorolfine 5% medicated nail lacquer 5 £7.34 Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral
Read moreWorkforce challenges are currently adversely impacting most sectors of the UK economy, but they are being particularly acutely felt within community pharmacy with serious consequences for pharmacy contractors. PSNC and the other national pharmacy bodies have called for improved workforce planning to be undertaken by the Government and NHS, but for this to happen, high
Read morePSNC has today published an update on the work it is doing as part of the Transforming Pharmacy Representation (TAPR) Programme to take forward the mandate from contractors to deliver the Review Steering Group (RSG) recommendations. The update is primarily aimed at LPCs – with whom PSNC has been working closely on some of the
Read moreDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Temazepam 10mg and 20mg tablets. MSN/2022/078 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 15th September 2022 Temazepam 10mg and 20mg tablets are in limited supply until w/c 5th December 2022 Alternative benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics remain available and will be
Read moreMike Dent (Director of Pharmacy Funding) and Jack Cresswell (Funding Strategy Manager), will be hosting a PSNC webinar about changes to the discount deduction system on Wednesday 12th October at 7.30pm. The discount deduction scale has been a point of contention for community pharmacy contractors for many years, and PSNC has been pushing to remedy
Read moreAs a further update to our article about Monday 19th September being declared a Bank Holiday at short notice, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer David Webb has issued a statement about the dispensing of controlled drugs in instalments. This makes provision for pharmacists to make instalment supplies in advance of the Bank Holiday, at their discretion. “Opioid
Read moreAs a further update to our article about Monday 19th September being declared a Bank Holiday at short notice, NHS England has confirmed that all community pharmacies’ Directory of Service (DoS) and NHS website entries will automatically be set to show all pharmacies as closed on this date. Advice on the action required is provided below. It is
Read moreClass 4 Medicines Defect Information: Atorvastatin 4mg/ml Oral Suspension & Sildenafil 10mg/ml Oral Suspension (Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Ltd) Drug alert number: EL (22)A/39 Date issued: 14 September 2022 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Atorvastatin 4mg/ml Oral Suspension PL 00427/0256 Batch Number Expiry Date
Read moreFollowing the announcement of a new discount deduction system, PSNC has developed a webtool to help community pharmacy contractors estimate the impact on their payments. The calculator aims to illustrate the changes to discount deduction that a pharmacy could experience during the transition to the new arrangements from October 2022 to January 2024, when the
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