Monthly Archives: March 2023

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has updated their New Medicine Service (NMS) and antibiotic review spreadsheets for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2022/23. New Medicine Service spreadsheet To meet the Advanced services gateway criterion, community pharmacy contractors are required to have delivered a minimum of 20 NMS between 1st April 2022 and end of [...]

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By 31st March 2023, all community pharmacy contractors must have completed the 2022/23 national clinical audit on valproate over a six-week consecutive period and have submitted their data via the Valproate audit 2022/23 tab on MYS. If contractors have conducted the audit but did not identify any patients to participate in the audit, they are [...]

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A Save Our Pharmacies campaign website has been created by leading national pharmacy bodies, to give new focus to calls for fair pharmacy funding in England. It is the latest output of a joint programme of work being coordinated by PSNC, CCA, AIM and the NPA. It comes the same day the group launched a [...]

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Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Methadone 1mg/mL Oral Solution BP – Sugar Free, Methadone Mixture 1mg/ml (Thornton & Ross Ltd) Drug alert number: EL (23)A/07 Date issued: 7 March 2023 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Methadone 1mg/mL Oral Solution BP – Sugar [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has introduced new pharmaceutical regulations, to take effect on 1 April 2023, to accompany the introduction of the HRT PPC. They are within the  National Health Service (Amendments Relating to Pre-Payment Certificates, Hormone Replacement Therapy Treatments and Medicines Shortages) Regulations 2023. The HRT PPC is a new, [...]

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