Monthly Archives: September 2022

Mike 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 [...]

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As 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 [...]

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As 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 [...]

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Class 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 [...]

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Community pharmacy contractors can now access a recording of PSNC’s recent webinar on price concessions. Around 750 people registered for last week’s webinar which aimed to provide contractors with a better understanding of how the price concession system operates and PSNC’s work in this area. Nine in ten said they would recommend the webinar to [...]

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