Monthly Archives: October 2023

Community Pharmacy England has released a set of resources on the price concessions system to further explain how this works and highlight some of our work in this area. The many challenges surrounding medicines supply and pricing have intensified, putting considerable pressure on community pharmacy owners and their teams. The disruption often causes problems in [...]

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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (16/10/2023) announced the following initial list of price concessions for October 2023: Drug Pack Size Price concession Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £18.00 Atorvastatin 10mg tablets 28 £1.30 Atorvastatin [...]

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Community Pharmacy England held a pharmacy event and spread the word more widely about the sector’s challenges and potential at this year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool. This followed on from the Conservative Party conference which you can read about here and built on our ongoing work to ensure the Shadow Health Team are well [...]

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Daily Express Figures released by the NHS Business Services Authority reveal the number of community pharmacies active in England has hit a seven-year low of 11,414 community pharmacies, and the Express asked us to comment. Note, the figure in the General Pharmaceutical Services report relates to the number of pharmacies that were active at any [...]

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Today at The Pharmacy Show, a new Advanced service to supply eligible patients with COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device (LFD) test kits has been announced. The service, which is funded outside of the CPCF global sum, will allow eligible patients who have risk factors for progression to severe COVID-19 to obtain LFD test kits from participating [...]

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