Yearly Archives: 2025

/2025

Drug Tariff Watch – June 2025

The Drug Tariff Preface published monthly, lists additions, deletions and other changes to products listed in the Drug Tariff. Below is a summary of the changes coming into effect from 1 June 2025. Key g Special container – This product is a special container and should be dispensed in its complete original pack size. n Item requiring reconstitution [...]

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Reminder: Pharmacy First bundling requirement from 1st June

There is now less than one week to go before the bundling requirements for Pharmacy First come into force, which will impact on whether pharmacy owners are entitled to a monthly fixed payment for the service. From 1st June 2025, pharmacy owners must be registered and able to deliver the Hypertension Case Finding Service*, the [...]

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May 2025 Price Concessions 2nd Update

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (23/05/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for May 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £2.73 Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £10.35 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg effervescent tablets 32 £2.41 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg effervescent tablets 100 £7.52 Codeine 15mg/5ml linctus [...]

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Job Vacancy: Join our LPC and Pharmacy Owner Support Team

We are looking for someone who is passionate about community pharmacy and interested in the important work that Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) do, to join our LPC and Pharmacy Owner Support Team. The team is expanding to include the new post of LPC Engagement and Support Manager, which has been created to enhance the support [...]

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MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Mercaptopurine 50mg Tablets (Aspen Pharma Trading Limited)

MHRA Class 2 Medicines Notification: Mercaptopurine 50mg Tablets (Aspen Pharma Trading Limited) Drug alert number: EL(25)A/23 Date issued: 22 May 2025 Aspen Pharma Trading Limited is recalling a specific batch of Mercaptopurine 50mg tablets as a precautionary measure due to microbial contamination following a small number of complaints of discoloured tablets within the packs, identified [...]

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