Yearly Archives: 2024

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vials MSN/2024/021 Tier 3 – high impact Date of issue 21st February 2024 Link: Medicines Supply Tool Summary Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid is in very limited supply with a resolution date [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Lisdexamfetamine (Elvanse®) capsules. MSN/2024/019 Tier 3 – high impact  Date of issue 13th February 2024 There will be intermittent supply of all strengths of lisdexamfetamine (Elvanse®) capsules until April 2024. Supplies of various strengths of Elvanse® will be available at different [...]

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Drug alert number: EL (24)A/05 Date issued: 12 February 2024 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 3 medicines recall for: Ramipril 1.25mg tablets (Torrent Pharma (UK) Limited) PL 36687/0222 SNOMED Code: 36834211000001109 Batch Number Expiry Date Pack Size First Distributed MG21264 29/02/2024 28 tablets 13/12/2021 MG21334 31/03/2024 28 tablets [...]

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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 (13/02/2024) announced the following initial list of price concessions for February 2024. Drug Pack size Price concession Atorvastatin 80mg tablets 28 £2.64 Azithromycin 250mg capsules 6 £4.67 Bimatoprost [...]

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The NHSmail team previously announced that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is set to become mandatory across the platform for all NHSmail users from later within 2024. What is MFA? Normally you use your email address and password to log into your NHSmail account. MFA is an additional way of checking that it is really you when [...]

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