Yearly Archives: 2023

Community Pharmacy England has coordinated a letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay, seeking his immediate intervention to prevent a delay to the start of the flu immunisation programme. We have joined with CSL Seqirus, Healthcare Distribution Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to warn the Government of the [...]

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The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has issued a reminder that the 2008 Responsible Pharmacist (RP) Regulations remain applicable until the first rules made by the GPhC under the 2022 revised provisions for RPs and superintendent pharmacists. This also applies to relevant sections of the Medicines Act 1968. Guidance on the current RP rules can be [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has successfully appealed to increase the price concession granted in July 2023 for Atorvastatin 80mg tablets to £3.91 from the previously imposed £3.45. During the month of July 2023 our Dispensing and Supply Team received an exceptionally high volume of reports from pharmacies unable to obtain Atorvastatin 80mg tablets at the published [...]

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Mail Following the release of details about the autumn Covid and flu vaccination programmes, we were asked to comment on the change in eligibility and delayed start date of the vaccination roll-out, particularly around the potential for vaccines to go to waste. Director of NHS Services, Alastair Buxton, said: “A delay to the start of [...]

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