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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), several changes have been agreed within the July 2025 Drug Tariff associated with Advanced services and the Essential service, the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS). Changes to reflect the simplified DMS journey on MYS As [...]

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Following the announcement of a new streamlined process for making claims for the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS), pharmacy owners are reminded of the actions they need to take ahead of this coming into effect on 6th July 2025. Claims Action Claims up to and including 30th June 2025 All DMS activity up until 30th June [...]

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As announced last month, Pharmacy First consultations carried out in March, April and May 2025 must be claimed by 11.59pm on 30th June 2025 to receive payment. Pharmacy owners are encouraged to check that all claims for this time period have been submitted to the NHS Business Services Authority on the MYS portal for payment. [...]

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The Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) has launched a new BoneMed online service, a free service to supports patients taking medicines for osteoporosis and remove barriers to medicines adherence. After a five minute online survey, patients receive an online medicine summary and six emails over a year tailored to the medicine they’ve been prescribed. Topics covered include: [...]

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Several months ago Community Pharmacy England and Healthwatch England launched an online Pharmacy First patient survey that pharmacy owners can direct patients to after receiving the service. The aim of this collaboration is to collect patient feedback on the service to help inform service improvements and to help to quantify the value of the service [...]

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