Monthly Archives: June 2024

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Erythromycin 250mg gastro-resistant tablets MSN/2024/071 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 12th June 2024 Erythromycin 250mg tablets are currently out of stock until w/c 24th of June 2024. Erythromycin 500mg tablets remain available but are unable to support an [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency have issued a statement of amendment to the Annual Flu letter. Read the statement of amendment This has been issued, following the news from Sanofi that recombinant quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIVr) will not be available for this year’s flu vaccination [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has issued the following statement in response to the Conservative Party Manifesto. Our CEO Janet Morrison said: “We have been urging all political parties to commit to working with us to develop pharmacy services for the benefit of patients, pharmacies and the wider NHS. Pharmacies are vital community healthcare assets, but they [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has issued the following statement in response to the Liberal Democrats Manifesto. Our CEO Janet Morrison said: “We have been urging all political parties to commit to working with us to introduce a sustainable funding model for community pharmacies, alongside developing pharmacy services for the benefit of patients, pharmacies and the wider [...]

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The service specification for the Lateral flow device tests supply service for patients potentially eligible for COVID-19 treatments (LFD service) has had some minor amendments made to it following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and NHS England. The changes to the specification have been made to make the eligibility criteria section clearer to understand, as [...]

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