Monthly Archives: October 2022

Community pharmacy contractors have two weeks left to claim an Aspiration payment for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2022/23 as the window for claiming this payment closes at 11.59pm on 4th November 2022. The Aspiration payment is optional; if contractors do not want to claim it, it will not impact on the contractor’s ability to claim [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Medroxyprogesterone (Provera®) 2.5mg and 10mg tablets. MSN/2022/074U Tier 3 – high impact Date of issue 20th October 2022 This is an update (changes in bold) to MSN/2022/074 Medroxyprogesterone (Provera®) 2.5mg tablets are out of stock until mid-November 2022 Intermittent supply of [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (20/10/2022) granted the following list of price concessions: Drug Pack size Price concession Alendronic acid 70mg tablets 4 £7.32 Amisulpride 50mg tablets 60 £13.09 Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free 100 £2.55 Aripiprazole 10mg tablets 28 £57.57 Atenolol 50mg tablets 28 £1.70 Baclofen 5mg/5ml oral [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (18/10/2022) granted the following initial list of price concessions: Drug Pack size Price concession Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £15.25 Amisulpride 200mg tablets 60 £33.92 Cyclizine 50mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules 5 £10.70 Dorzolamide 20mg/ml eye drops 5 £4.32 Duloxetine 60mg gastro-resistant capsules 28 £5.23 Escitalopram [...]

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Pharmacy contractors should note that any NHS prescriptions for the original FreeStyle Libre Sensors submitted for payment after the end of December 2022 will not be passed for payment.  This is because only devices listed in the Appliances section in Part IX (Parts IXA, IXB and IXC) of the Drug Tariff are allowed on NHS prescriptions. Abbott [...]

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