Monthly Archives: June 2024

Pharmacy owners should soon receive confirmation from NHSBSA that the 2024/25 CPAF screening questionnaire will be available for completion from 1st July 2024 until midnight on Sunday 31st July 2024. As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion of CPAF is now a requirement of the Terms of Service. Therefore, pharmacy owners [...]

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Update: (17/07/24) changes shown in bold below Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Quetiapine 150mg, 200mg, 300mg tablets MSN/2024/070 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 6th June 2024 There are limited supplies of quetiapine 150mg, 200mg and 300mg tablets until late August 2024. Subject to [...]

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Drug alert number: EL (24)A/20 Date issued: 06 June 2024 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Lamotrigine Desitin 10mg/ml oral suspension (Desitin Pharma UK Ltd) PL 14040/0040 SNOMED Code: 42751111000001102 Batch No Expiry Date Pack Size First Distributed 024171A1 31/01/2026 300ml 07-May-24 024172A1 31/01/2026 300ml [...]

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New legislation has been introduced to permit pharmacy technicians to supply and administer medicines under Patient Group Directions (PGDs). Amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations were laid before Parliament at the end of May and are due to come into effect from 26th June 2024. The changes will permit registered pharmacy technicians to supply and [...]

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Following representations made by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy owners, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today redetermined the concession prices for four products and confirmed three further price concessions for May 2024. This announcement comes in the following month and follows the decision by DHSC to impose changes to [...]

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