Yearly Archives: 2025

Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar about the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Service, in collaboration with NHS England, on Wednesday 20th August at 7.30pm. On the night Alastair Buxton, Director of NHS Services at Community Pharmacy England, and colleagues from NHS England, will explain how the service will operate and help community pharmacy [...]

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MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Fucidin 250 mg Tablets, LEO Laboratories Ltd trading as LEO Pharma Drug alert number: EL(25)A/38 Date issued: 04 August 2025 LEO Pharma is recalling the affected batch as a precautionary measure due to out of specification results for impurities during routine stability testing. DMRC reference number: DMRC-36306427 Company name: LEO [...]

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Following representations from Community Pharmacy England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has re-determined that the following products will be granted special container status from 1 August 2025. Generic drug name (dm+d descriptor) Brand and/or Manufacturer Pack size Special container Hydrocortisone 500microgram granules in capsules for opening Alkindi® 0.5 mg granules in capsules [...]

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Registration for the new Children’s Flu Vaccination Service for children aged 2-3 years is now open on the NHS Business Services Authority’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. As announced last week, this is one-season trial of the new Advanced service and pharmacy owners that choose to provide the service will be able to commence vaccinating eligible [...]

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Changes are being made to the Manage Your Service (MYS) pharmacy portal, aimed at improving user experience. The new-look portal will be launched on Thursday 21 August 2025. Please note: the MYS portal will be temporarily unavailable between 7:00am to 8:30am on Thursday 21 August 2025 whilst NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) make the changes. The [...]

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