Yearly Archives: 2024

In a debate in Parliament, MPs raised their concerns about the impact of the 2024 Budget on community pharmacies. Joe Robertson MP, Conservative member of the Health and Social Care Committee, quoted CPE analysis that these measures will ‘cost pharmacists £50 million, even after taking into account the employment allowance’. Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride MP [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has via its Central Alerting System (CAS) published a letter on 3 December 2024 advising that due to increasing flu levels in the community, Prescribers working in primary care may now prescribe, and community pharmacists may now supply antiviral medicines (oseltamivir and zanamivir) for the prophylaxis and [...]

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Last month Community Pharmacy England and Healthwatch England launched an online Pharmacy First patient survey that pharmacy owners can direct patients to after receiving the service. The aim of this collaboration is to collect patient feedback on the service to help inform service improvements and to help to quantify the value of the service to [...]

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NHS England has announced that from December 2024, the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) will be extended to Detained Estate healthcare services in England. This extension will allow prescribers working in prisons to issue EPS ‘To Take Out’ (TTO) and urgent prescriptions electronically to community pharmacies, removing the need for the use of paper FP10 forms. [...]

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The following price concessions granted in November 2024 have rolled over to December 2024: Drug Pack size Price concession Desloratadine 5mg tablets 30 £4.56 Travoprost 40micrograms/ml / timolol 5mg/ml eye drops 2.5 £10.59 Vardenafil 20mg tablets 4 £3.65 Please note any rolled over prices can be adjusted upwards if we receive reports from pharmacy owners [...]

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