Monthly Archives: July 2023

Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Cipla (UK) Limited and Pharmathen S.A – Various Products Drug alert number:EL (23)A/24 Date issued: 13 July 2023 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Cipla (UK) Limited and Pharmathen S.A – Various Products Company name: Cipla (EU) Limited, [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has been in Parliament today alongside patient representatives and others to highlight our ongoing concerns about medicines supply to MPs. Medicines supply remains a critical issue for community pharmacies with disruption causing problems both accessing medicines and procuring them cost effectively. In our recent sector polling, community pharmacy owners rated medicines supply [...]

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Drug alert number: EL (23)A/23 Date issued: 10 July 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Labetalol 200mg tablets (Tillomed Laboratories Ltd) Batch number Expiry date Pack size First distributed 221345 08/2025 56 (4×14) 15/05/2023 Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient: Labetalol hydrochloride Brief description of the problem [...]

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Following the publication of the updated specification for the Smoking Cessation Service (SCS) on the NHS England website, we have updated our SCS resources. This follows the recent change to the Secretary of State Directions, which allowed pharmacy technicians to start providing the service. We have updated the service page and FAQs page on our [...]

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Email addresses for the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) are changing. For pharmacy teams this means that some of the email addresses previously used to contact NHS Prescription Services will no longer work. There will be a small transition period where emails sent to the old address will be automatically forwarded. This ends on Tuesday [...]

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