Since the Autumn Budget, Community Pharmacy England has been working to ensure that the impact of the announced changes on community pharmacies is fully understood by Government, and to argue once again that community pharmacies urgently need a funding uplift. Chief Executive Janet Morrison met with Minister for Care Stephen Kinnock on the day of
Read more20 parliamentarians have signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting MP, calling for urgent government action to safeguard the future of community pharmacies. Supported by Community Pharmacy England, the cross-party letter describes the financial challenges facing the sector and calls on the Department of Health and Social
Read moreThe deadline to register interest in participating in an important fiscal review of the community pharmacy sector has been extended to Monday 18th November. With pharmacies across the country struggling to cope under intolerable financial pressures, NHS England’s independent economic review offers an opportunity to demonstrate how much it actually costs to run a pharmacy
Read moreMHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Omeprazole 40mg Powder for solution for infusion (Viatris UK Healthcare Ltd) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/54 Date issued: 12 November 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Omeprazole 40mg Powder for solution for infusion. Company name: Viatris
Read moreDepartment 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreClass 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
Read moreA 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
Read moreCommunity 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
Read moreCommunity 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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