Monthly Archives: January 2025

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 (21/01/2025) announced the following list of price concessions for January 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Benzydamine 0.15% mouthwash sugar free 300 £4.65 Cefalexin 500mg tablets 21 £2.99 [...]

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Updated 22/01/2025 – This recall notification has been updated since its initial publication on 21 January 2025 to include the correct batch information for several batches. Bells Healthcare erroneously provided incorrect information pertaining to the expiry date of several batches and have ensured that all other batch information is correct. Please ensure that appropriate action [...]

The post MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Tesco Health Dry Cough Relief 200ml, Asda Strong Dry Tickly Cough 200ml, Almus Dry Cough Relief & Bells Dual Action Dry Cough- Updated appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Data Security and Protection Toolkit Workshop: Support with completing your 2025 toolkit submission Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar on Thursday 13th February at 7.30pm to help community pharmacy owners to complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. We have worked in collaboration with the NHS DSPTK team on the new requirements and made improvements [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules. MSN/2025/004 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 20th January 2025 Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules are in limited supply with stock exhaustion anticipated by late March 2025; anticipated [...]

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This is the ninth of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around Pharmacy First. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of Pharmacy First and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. If I receive a message that my Pharmacy First IT system cannot send an automated [...]

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