Yearly Archives: 2024

1st July 2024: Updates to the further information hosted on the Medicines Supply Tool,  have been published.  Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Disopyramide (Rythmodan Retard®) 250mg modified-release tablets and disopyramide (Rythmodan®) 100mg capsules. MSN/2024/075 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 5th June 2024 Disopyramide [...]

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Community Pharmacy England previously published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the latest Data Security and Protection Toolkit. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Sunday 30th June 2024.   The vast majority of pharmacy teams have now completed their Toolkit ahead of the [...]

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Community pharmacy teams are encouraged to get involved in our Pharmacy Advice Audit before it’s too late. We are hugely grateful to those who has already taken part and decided to extend the participation period to Friday 28th June to give as many pharmacies as possible the chance to share their data. Our animation explains why [...]

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A new Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Drug Safety Update (Vol 17 Issue 11 June 2024) has been published and includes articles on: Topiramate (Topamax®): introduction of new safety measures, including a Pregnancy Prevention Programme Warfarin: be alert to the risk of drug interactions with tramadol Letters and medicine recalls sent to healthcare [...]

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