Yearly Archives: 2024

The Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and NHS England have jointly published the national flu vaccination programme letter today (12th March 2024) for the 2024/25 season. Timing Based on evidence that flu vaccine’s effectiveness can wane over time in adults, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has today (11th March 2024), launched an NHS campaign to encourage members of the public who could be living with undiagnosed high blood pressure to get their blood pressure checked at a participating pharmacy. The campaign, backed by British Heart Foundation, Stroke Association, Heart Research UK, Blood Pressure [...]

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The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has announced that a retrospective top-up payment system for price concession lines will be implemented from April 2024. Community Pharmacy England has been working with DHSC to develop a package of measures to improve the price concession system. [...]

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New arrangements for the setting of Drug Tariff Category A reimbursement prices will be introduced by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) from April 2024. The changes form part of a series of drug reimbursement reforms proposed by DHSC following a public consultation in 2019. DHSC’s decision, determined by Ministers, is primarily focussed [...]

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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 re-determined the February 2024 concessionary prices for the following medicines: Drug Pack size Price concession for February 2024 Baclofen 10mg tablets 84 £4.33 (previously £2.78) Etoricoxib 90mg tablets 28 £18.17 (previously £12.52) Mometasone [...]

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