Yearly Archives: 2025

Community Pharmacy England has launched its fourth annual Pressures Survey, and all pharmacy owners and staff are asked to share their views.   The survey provides crucial evidence as part of ongoing work to monitor and quantify the intolerable challenges facing the sector. Results will be used to raise awareness in the national media and Parliament, [...]

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Update 04/02/2025 – The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has notified Community Pharmacy England that essential maintenance took place on the Manage Your Service (MYS) Pharmacy portal on Saturday 18 January 2025 as scheduled and as a result, there has been a change to the maintenance planned for the remaining two dates. Maintenance work will now [...]

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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 (16/01/2025) announced the following initial list of price concessions for January 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Alfuzosin 2.5mg tablets 60 £3.80 Calcipotriol 0.005% / Betamethasone dipropionate 0.05% [...]

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This is the eighth 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. It is fine to always select ‘other’ and free type the outcome of the consultation [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg spray MSN/2025/003 Tier 2 medium impact Date of issue: 14th January 2025 Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg spray is out of stock until mid-February 2025. Lidocaine 5% / Phenylephrine 0.5% spray remains available and can support an increase in demand. [...]

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