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 (21/01/2025) announced the following list of price concessions for January 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Benzydamine 0.15% mouthwash sugar free 300 £4.65 Cefalexin 500mg tablets 21 £2.99
Drug alert number: EL(25)A/03 Date issued: 21 January 2025 Bells Healthcare is recalling the listed batches of dextromethorphan hydrobromide BP containing products as a precautionary measure, due to foreign material detected in some bottles. DMRC Number: DMRC-34222471 Company name: Bell, Sons & Co (Druggists) Ltd T/A Bells Healthcare Tesco Health Dry Cough Relief 200ml, PL
Data Security and Protection Toolkit Workshop: Support with completing your 2025 toolkit submission Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar on Thursday 13th February at 7.30pm to help community pharmacy owners to complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. We have worked in collaboration with the NHS DSPTK team on the new requirements and made improvements
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules. MSN/2025/004 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 20th January 2025 Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules are in limited supply with stock exhaustion anticipated by late March 2025; anticipated
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 (17/01/2025) announced the following list of price concessions for January 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Acamprosate 333mg gastro-resistant tablets 168 £21.90 Bimatoprost 300micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that sufficient stock of Monomil® XL 60mg tablets is now available to meet normal demand. As a result the Serious Shortage Protocol (SSP), SSP075 Monomil® XL 60mg tablets expires at 23.59pm on Friday 17 January 2025. After this date, any prescriptions for Monomil® XL 60mg
Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Friday 30th June 2025. Community Pharmacy England has collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload associated with
Community Pharmacy England has launched its fourth annual Pressures Survey, and all pharmacy owners and staff are asked to share their views. The survey provides crucial evidence as part of ongoing work to monitor and quantify the intolerable challenges facing the sector. Results will be used to raise awareness in the national media and Parliament,
These briefings will assist community pharmacy contractors completing the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (‘Toolkit’) 2025: Toolkit completion: Five steps to complete the Toolkit (overview) Toolkit completion: Question-by-question guidance (mandatory questions) (PDF ver) Toolkit completion: Question-by-question guidance (all questions) (spreadsheet ver) Toolkit completion: Using the Data Security and Protection Toolkit’s HQ batch submission feature – step-by-step
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has notified Community Pharmacy England that the Manage Your Service (MYS) Pharmacy portal will be unavailable due to essential maintenance between 7:00am and 6:00pm on the following days: Saturday 18 January 2025 Saturday 8 February 2025 Saturday 15 February 2025 Pharmacy owners will not be able to access the
