Monthly Archives: April 2025

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (30/04/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for April 2025.  Drug Pack size Price concession Ascorbic acid 100mg tablets 28 £30.49 Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £2.73 Carbocisteine 375mg capsules 120 £3.01 Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 70 £9.93 Desmopressin 120microgram sublingual [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Fentanyl (Effentora®) 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets Fentanyl (Actiq®) 800microgram lozenges. MSN/2025/025 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 30th April 2025 Effentora® 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets are out of stock until late May 2025. Effentora® 100microgram [...]

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Community Pharmacy England on behalf of pharmacy owners made further applications to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), resulting in a further 2 new products being added to the ‘Drugs for which Discount is Not Deducted’ (DND) list from 1 May 2025. This takes the total [...]

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With Early May Bank Holiday (5 May 2025) occurring in the first five days of the FP34C submission window, pharmacy owners will have an extra day, until the end of 6 May 2025, to submit their April FP34Cs using the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal and to dispatch their prescription bundle to the relevant pricing [...]

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The Government has laid amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (HMR) in Parliament as the next step towards Hub and Spoke dispensing for community pharmacies. The Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025 Key points of the HMR amendments in brief are: Only Model 1: patient – spoke – [...]

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