Yearly Archives: 2023

Drug alert number: EL (23)A/25 Date issued: 10 July 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Sabril 500 mg film-coated tablets & Sabril 500 mg granules for oral solution (Aventis Pharma Limited (t/a Sanofi)) Product name Sabril 500 mg film-coated tablets, PL 04425/0171 Batch number [...]

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Date issued: 13 July 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Sabril 500 mg film-coated tablets & Sabril 500 mg granules for oral solution. Sabril 500 mg film-coated tablets Pl 04425/0171 Batch number Expiry date Pack size First distributed 2989A April 2025 100 02/08/22 2988D [...]

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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 (our members), the Department has today (13/07/2023) announced the following initial list of price concessions for July 2023: Drug Pack size Price concession Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £18.15 Atorvastatin 10mg tablets 28 [...]

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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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