Yearly Archives: 2024

Pharmacy owners and their teams can now watch an on-demand recording of Community Pharmacy England’s webinar on the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service. Held last week, around 400 people tuned in to watch our ‘Pharmacy Contraception Service: getting going with the service’ webinar. The latest in our series of webinars* aimed at assisting the [...]

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Pharmacy teams are reminded that they have until the 5 February 2024 to complete and submit the required information for all outstanding referred back (unpaid) prescriptions received prior to July 2022. After 5 February, all referred back prescriptions older than 18 months (including any paper referred back forms sent to pharmacies prior to July 2022) [...]

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Over 90% of community pharmacies in England have now signed up to provide the Pharmacy First service. The service is due to commence on 31st January 2024, subject to the required IT systems being in place. A significant amount of work to get NHS, pharmacy and GP IT systems ready to support the service is [...]

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The Guardian highlights the severe shortage of medicines in the NHS, which is putting lives at risk. Pharmacists have expressed concerns about the number of products in short supply, which has doubled in the past two years, affecting treatments for various conditions including cancer, schizophrenia, and diabetes. We shared the following statement with The Guardian about worsening [...]

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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 redetermined the December 2023 concessionary prices for the following medicines: Drug Pack size Price concession Aripiprazole 5mg tablets 28 £8.52 Digoxin 125microgram tablets 28 £3.70 Digoxin 250micrgram tablets 28 £3.70 Ezetimibe 10mg tablets [...]

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