The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (19/01/2023) granted the following initial list of price concessions for January 2023. Drug Pack Size Price concession Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £20.29 Amisulpride 200mg tablets 60 £33.92 Amisulpride 50mg tablets 60 £13.09 Amoxicillin 125mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free 100 £3.70 Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 100
Read moreLeading national pharmacy bodies have agreed to work together on a programme of activities to lobby for fair NHS funding for pharmacies in England, including co-ordinating efforts to mobilise public support. The Save Our Pharmacies campaign will focus on highlighting both the pressures that pharmacies are under and the huge untapped potential of the sector
Read moreIn a statement to the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Markham, a Health Minister, talked about a ‘plan of using [pharmacies] more for patients [that] will put more funding their way’. He also went on to praise the sector saying they are a ‘crucial part of the front line’. This was in response to
Read moreDrug alert number: EL(23)A/02 Date issued: 18 January 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Dioctyl 100 mg Capsules, UCB Pharma Ltd – PL 00039/0737 Batch Number Expiry Date Pack Size First Distributed 22983D 30 June 2023 1 x 100 capsules 16 December 2021 Active
Read moreDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for various Insuman insulin preparations. MSN/2023/002 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 17th January 2023 Insuman® Comb 25 100units/ml suspension for injection 3ml cartridges and prefilled pens will be discontinued with stocks being exhausted in May and June 2023 respectively.
Read moreDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Vigabatrin (Sabril®) 500mg tablets. MSN/2023/003 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 17th January 2023 Vigabatrin (Sabril®) 500mg tablets are out of stock until w/c 3rd March 2023. An alternative formulation of the Sabril® brand of vigabatrin is the 500mg
Read moreCommunity pharmacy contractors are now able to update NHS Profile Manager if they routinely hold the 16 palliative and end of life care (PEoLC) medicines listed in the Drug Tariff and can support local access to parenteral haloperidol. This requirement is a criterion in the ‘Addressing unwarranted variation in care’ domain of the 2022/23 Pharmacy
Read moreThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has provided an update on the Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) for 5 SSPs. The following SSPs have been further extended to Friday 27 January 2023. SSP Expiry Date Supporting Information SSP029 Sandrena® 0.5mg and 1mg gel sachets – restriction 27 January 2023 SSP029 guide SSP030 Sandrena® 0.5mg
Read morePSNC has published new guidance to help community pharmacy contractors to complete the 2022/23 Data Security and Protection Toolkit. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Friday 30th June 2023. We recommend that contractors complete the Toolkit as soon as possible. We collaborated with NHS Digital to
Read moreThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that sufficient stock of Lenzetto® 1.53mg/dose transdermal spray is now available to meet normal demand. As a result the following Serious Shortage Protocols, will expire at 23.59pm on Friday 13 January 2023. After this date, any prescriptions for Lenzetto® 1.53mg/dose transdermal spray must be dispensed
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