Yearly Archives: 2024

/2024

Category M webinar now available on-demand

Pharmacy owners can now watch a recording of Community Pharmacy England’s recent webinar about Drug Tariff Category M and retained margin on-demand. Around 500 people registered for the webinar held earlier this week, which aimed to provide pharmacy owners with a better understanding of the processes behind the delivery of margin, our work in this [...]

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January 2024 Price Concessions 2nd Update

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 (26/01/2024) announced the following list of price concessions for January 2024: Drug Pack size Price concession Amiodarone 200mg tablets 28 £1.83 Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £18.21 Atorvastatin 80mg [...]

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Reimbursement of Riluzole and Rilutek® tablets dispensed in January 2024

Following supplier list price changes, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have clarified that the following reimbursement prices will apply to NHS prescriptions for Riluzole 50mg tablets (Part VIIIA Category A) and Rilutek® 50mg tablets dispensed in January 2024: Product Pack size Published price  Actual reimbursement price Riluzole 50mg tablets 56 £300.23 £342.12 [...]

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Recruiting foundation trainee pharmacists in 2024 (2025 intake)

NHS England has asked us to share the following important information on the recruitment of foundation trainee pharmacists in 2024 (2025 intake) with pharmacy owners. Significant changes have been implemented for the 2025 foundation training year in line with the Initial Education and Training of Pharmacists reform programme required by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). [...]

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Pharmacy First start date confirmed as 31st Jan

The Pharmacy First service will commence next week on Wednesday 31st January 2024. When the service was first announced last year, a caveat was applied to the start date, as there was a significant amount of IT development work to be undertaken within community pharmacy, general practice and NHS IT systems. IT system suppliers and [...]

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