Monthly Archives: June 2024

EMIS Pinnacle started rolling out the GP Connect Update Record feature to all community pharmacy teams using PharmOutcomes from Friday 28th June 2024. Initially, this covers Hypertension Case-finding Service and Pharmacy Contraception Service consultations. Update Record is a new feature that CPCF IT system suppliers have been adding to their systems, with Cegedim and Positive [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (28/06/2024) confirmed the following list of price concessions for June 2024. This announcement comes late in the month and follows the decision to impose changes to concessions pricing from April 2024 to try to manage purchase margins. DHSC has applied its new margin reduction formula as a final [...]

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Following a request by Community Pharmacy England, NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have agreed to extend the claim period for the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) to three months; currently claims have to be made by the 5th of the month following that in which the final stage that the pharmacy [...]

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As previously announced, regulations have come into force to restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty suppressing hormones / gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues to children and young people under 18 for the purposes of gender dysphoria / gender incongruence. During the period of the emergency ban (currently from 3 June to 3 September 2024), [...]

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Pharmacy owners have one day left to submit an expression of interest (EOI) if they wish to take part in this autumn/winter’s COVID-19 vaccination service, as the interim response deadline for submissions is 11.59pm on 27th June 2024. Further information on the EOI process and provision of the service can be found in our news story highlighting [...]

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