Yearly Archives: 2024

As ‘FS’ endorsed prescription items become more common, Community Pharmacy England has released updated guidance on how pharmacies should handle these prescriptions. Community pharmacies are seeing an increase in electronic prescriptions with items endorsed ‘FS’ for free supply of sexual health treatment. This increase has been partially driven by the adoption of EPS by sexual [...]

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The NHS Vaccination Strategy, published in December last year, set out an intention for NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to explore the potential benefits of adopting centralisation of adult flu vaccine procurement and supply. If that approach is adopted, it would mean flu [...]

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Pharmacy owners have one day left to apply to provide the COVID-19 vaccination service from April 2025, as the deadline for submissions is 11:59pm on 19th November 2024. This process only applies to: Pharmacies not already contracted to provide the service and wishing to apply to provide it from April 2025; and Pharmacies already contracted [...]

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MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Entyvio 108mg solution for injection in pre-filled syringe (Takeda UK Limited) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/55 Date issued: 18 November 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Entyvio 108mg solution for injection in pre-filled syringe Company name: [...]

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Pharmacy owners are reminded of the requirement 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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