Yearly Archives: 2025

Trade Press The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has released new proposals today aimed at improving access to pharmacy services as part of its 10-Year Health Plan. These changes mean pharmacists will have more time to care for patients. Gordon Hockey, Director, Legal at Community Pharmacy England, said: “We welcome today’s proposals from the [...]

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Community Pharmacy England earlier this week hosted a high-level policy discussion in Westminster on the value and potential of investing in community pharmacy, following publication of the 10-Year Health Plan. Healthwatch England, the national patient representative body, presented their latest report on public perceptions of community pharmacy, including high public satisfaction with Pharmacy First. And [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for the following product: Abidec® Multivitamin drops MSN/2025/044 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 16/07/2025 Abidec® Multivitamin drops are out of stock until further notice Dalivit® oral drops remain available but can only support prescription demand. Alternative multivitamin drops [...]

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Pharmacy teams can now access Pharmacy First posters in several languages from our website. Thanks go to Sussex Integrated Care Board for providing the translated text used in the posters. The posters are available in the following languages: Arabic (Modern standard Middle East) Central Kurdish French Gujarati (India) Pashto (Afghanistan) Persian (Iran) Polish (Poland) Portugese [...]

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Over 85% of community pharmacy owners are still yet to complete the 2025/26 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire.  We encourage pharmacy owners who have not yet responded to the questionnaire to ensure they do so by Thursday, 31st July 2025.  As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion [...]

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