Monthly Archives: May 2024

The NHSmail team previously announced that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is set to become mandatory across the platform for all NHSmail users from later in 2024. What is MFA? Normally you use your email address and password to log into your NHSmail account. MFA is an additional security measure that verifies your identity when logging into your account. [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Humulin® S (insulin soluble human) 100units/ml solution for injection 10ml vials. This MSN is the second of two covering supply issues with insulin vials. The first MSN (MSN/2024/053) issued on 09/05/24 covered Humalog® vials. This MSN (MSN/2024/057) covers Humulin® S (insulin [...]

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Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Trazodone hydrochloride 50mg/5ml oral solution (Cygnus Pharma Ltd) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/16 Date issued: 20 May 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Trazodone hydrochloride 50mg/5ml oral solution (Cygnus Pharma Ltd) Company name: Cygnus Pharma Ltd Product name: [...]

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Pharmacy owners and their teams can now access guidance about the upcoming national Pharmacy Advice Audit, including full details of how to take part between 3rd and 16th June 2024. As announced earlier this month, Community Pharmacy England’s audit will help demonstrate how pharmacies are supporting their communities every day and assist in gathering critical evidence for [...]

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This is the second of a series of articles to help pharmacy owners and their teams to maximise the potential of the Hypertension Case-finding Service. The re-launch of the service, including the ability to use the wider pharmacy team to provide parts of the service, allows pharmacy owners to review how they provide the service [...]

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