Yearly Archives: 2023

Pharmacy press The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) published its annual statistics report Prescription Cost Analysis – England 2022/23, which shows that in 2022/23, 1.18 billion prescription items where dispensing in the community in England at a cost of £10.4 billion. This was an 8% increase from £9.69 billion in 2021/22. Director of Pharmacy Funding, [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Insulin isophane biphasic human 25/75 (Insuman® Comb 25) 100units/ml suspension for injection 3ml cartridge and pre-filled Solostar pens. MSN/2023/057 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 6th June 2023 Insuman® Comb 25 100units/ml suspension for injection 3ml cartridges and prefilled [...]

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NHE England has today published the updated specification for the Hypertension Case-Finding Service on their website. This follows last month’s change to the Secretary of State Directions which allowed pharmacy technicians to start performing blood pressure checks under the service. We have updated the service page on our website to reflect the changes and updated resources [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Clomifene (Clomid®) 50mg tablets. MSN/2023/056 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 5th June 2023 Sanofi will be out of stock of clomifene (Clomid®) 50mg tablets from w/c 12 June 2023 until w/c 18 September 2023. Generic clomifene 50mg tablets [...]

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As part of the Year 4 & 5 funding settlement for community pharmacy, it was agreed that an urgent review of the price concession setting system would take place. Since this announcement, Community Pharmacy England has been working with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to determine improvements to the price concession system. As part of a [...]

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