Monthly Archives: July 2024

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has released figures for the first three months of the NHS Pharmacy First Service (covering the period of 31st January to 30th April 2024). Highlights include: Over 9,976 community pharmacies delivered and claimed over 423,000 Pharmacy First clinical pathway consultations; and 78% of consultations resulted in a medicine being [...]

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The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) produces a quarterly newsletter called “Hints & Tips for dispensing contractors”. The latest edition (Issue 55) contains some useful information and advice on: Prescription switching – reduce the chances of it happening to you NHS Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPC) Medicines covered by the Hormone Replacement Therapy Prescription Prepayment Certificate [...]

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Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg per 5ml adult suspension (Aspen Pharma Trading Limited) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/32 Date issued: 25 July 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg per 5ml adult suspension (Aspen Pharma Trading Limited) Company name: Aspen [...]

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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (25/07/2024) announced the following list of price concessions for July 2024: Drug Pack size Price concession Agomelatine 25mg tablets 28 £13.50 Amisulpride 200mg tablets 60 £28.42 Betamethasone valerate 0.1% [...]

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Community pharmacy owners have just under a week left to complete the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire before the deadline of midnight on Wednesday 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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