Yearly Archives: 2024

Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Zoledronic Acid Ennogen 4mg/5ml concentrate for solution for infusion (Ennogen Healthcare Limited) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/53 Date issued: 07 November 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Zoledronic Acid Ennogen 4mg/5ml concentrate for solution for infusion (Ennogen [...]

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A new Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Drug Safety Update (Vol 18 Issue 4 November 2024) has been published and includes articles on: MedSafetyWeek November 2024: your Yellow Card report helps prevent future harm to others and improves patient safety Letters and medicine recalls sent to healthcare professionals in October 2024 To see the [...]

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Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) has launched a podcast series to discuss some of the issues surrounding the Pharmacy First service and to debunk certain clinical myths around the Clinical pathway strand of the service. In the podcast series, pharmacy colleagues and expert clinical speakers cover the seven clinical conditions included in the Clinical pathway strand [...]

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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. The NHS Business Services Authority sent an email to pharmacy owners containing a link to the survey in October. In some cases, for example, if you work for a multiple pharmacy group, the survey [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will be hosting a webinar on the introduction of Original Pack Dispensing (OPD) on Monday 25th November at 7.30pm. In September amendments were made to the pharmacy regulations to introduce OPD +/- 10% dispensing for NHS prescriptions. From 1st January 2025, these amendments state that the supervising pharmacist must consider dispensing up to [...]

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