Yearly Archives: 2024

Pharmacy owners have just over two weeks left to complete the 2024 workforce survey, which is a mandatory requirement for all pharmacy owners. Read more about the survey and how to complete it The NHS Business Services Authority sent an email to pharmacy owners containing a link to the survey in October. In some cases, for [...]

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NHS England, has published a reminder, via their Primary Care Bulletin, highlighting that the High-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV-HD), a first line vaccine for the 65 years and over cohort, as advised in the amendment to the annual flu letter, is available to order from Sanofi. NHS England goes on to remind pharmacy owners that [...]

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Community Pharmacy England and Healthwatch England have launched an online Pharmacy First patient survey that pharmacy owners can direct patients to after receiving the service. The aim of this collaboration is to collect patient feedback on the service to help inform service improvements and to help to quantify the value of the service to the [...]

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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 (20/11/2024) announced the following list of price concessions for November 2024: Drug Pack size Price concession Benzoyl peroxide 5% / Clindamycin 1% gel 60 £22.06 Brimonidine 0.2% eye [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Levobunolol (Betagan®) 0.5% eye drops 0.4ml unit dose preservative free. MSN/2024/108 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 20th November 2024 Levobunolol (Betagan®) 0.5% eye drops 0.4ml unit dose preservative free are being discontinued from late December 2024 Alternative preservative [...]

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