Yearly Archives: 2023

National Patient Safety Alert: Potent synthetic opioids implicated in heroin overdoses and deaths National Patient Safety Alert Reference Number: NatPSA/2023/009/OHID Date issued: 26th July 2023 Brief description of the problem In the past 8 weeks there has been an elevated number of overdoses (with some deaths) in people who use drugs, primarily heroin, in many [...]

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Pharmacy owners will be required to have a business continuity plan dealing with temporary closures from the end of this month, and Community Pharmacy England has issued guidance to help support this. Following changes to the NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 that were imposed earlier this year, from 31st July 2023, it [...]

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  The Drug Tariff Preface published monthly lists additions, deletions and other changes to products listed in the Drug Tariff. Below is a summary of the changes coming into effect from 1 August 2023. Key g Special container – This product is a special container and should be dispensed in its complete original pack size. n [...]

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Chemist+Druggist have today published a second article in which the Chief Executive of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIM) makes a series of comments about Community Pharmacy England and other national pharmacy organisations. We are publishing our response to the commentary here and Community Pharmacy England’s Chair is writing to AIM’s Chair to seek [...]

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73% of community pharmacies have completed the CPAF screening questionnaire. The remaining pharmacies (2,600) only have a few days left to complete it before the deadline of midnight this Sunday, 30th July 2023.   Community Pharmacy England recommends that any pharmacy owner who has yet to complete the screening questionnaire takes immediate action. It should only take [...]

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