Yearly Archives: 2025

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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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that sufficient stock of Monomil® XL 60mg tablets is now available to meet normal demand. As a result the Serious Shortage Protocol (SSP), SSP075 Monomil® XL 60mg tablets expires at 23.59pm on Friday 17 January 2025. After this date, any prescriptions for Monomil® XL 60mg [...]

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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 (17/01/2025) announced the following list of price concessions for January 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Acamprosate 333mg gastro-resistant tablets 168 £21.90 Bimatoprost 300micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by 30th June 2025. Community Pharmacy England has collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload associated with [...]

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