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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Buprenorphine (Reletrans®) 5micrograms/hour and 15micrograms/hour transdermal patches. MSN/2025/030 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 7th May 2025 Buprenorphine (Reletrans®) 5micrograms/hour and 15micrograms/hour transdermal patches are out of stock until early July 2025. Alternative brands of buprenorphine matrix patches (Bunov®, [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (30/04/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for April 2025.  Drug Pack size Price concession Ascorbic acid 100mg tablets 28 £30.49 Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £2.73 Carbocisteine 375mg capsules 120 £3.01 Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 70 £9.93 Desmopressin 120microgram sublingual [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Fentanyl (Effentora®) 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets Fentanyl (Actiq®) 800microgram lozenges. MSN/2025/025 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 30th April 2025 Effentora® 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets are out of stock until late May 2025. Effentora® 100microgram [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (28/04/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for April 2025.  Drug Pack size Price concession Alfuzosin 2.5mg tablets 60 £4.30 Amiodarone 200mg tablets 28 £1.99 Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £9.25 Carbimazole 20mg tablets 100 £2.65 Carbimazole 5mg tablets 100 £4.63 Codeine 15mg/5ml [...]

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As part of our Funding & Reimbursement Shorts series, Community Pharmacy England’s in-house Drug Tariff and funding experts have created a new video on prescription switching. For the end-of-month submission, pharmacy teams are required to sort paper prescriptions into paid and exempt groups. Prescription switching occurs when an FP10 paper prescription is submitted in the wrong charge [...]

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