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Community Pharmacy England is taking steps to tackle inappropriate EPS pharmacy nomination practices and service direction, which contravene the principles of patient choice. Since concerns around certain IT functionality allowing automatic re-nomination (without patient consent) and the direction of services were first raised last year, our Regulatory and IT experts have been working to address [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has released an IT bulletin update ahead of the Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG) meeting for its Spring meeting. Recent developments include: Update on EPS Patient Nomination Protocols and required system changes: NHS England has shared a draft revised Patient Nomination Protocols (v1.09) to the group for discussion. The updated guidance [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (26/02/2026) confirmed the following list of price concessions for February 2026: Please note: Community Pharmacy England has submitted price concession applications for a number of other medicines affected by pricing issues this month. We will issue further updates as soon as we hear back from [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency and NHS England have jointly published the national flu vaccination programme letter today (26th February 2026) for the 2026/27 season. Eligible cohorts There are no changes to the eligible cohorts for the 2026/27 season. Timing As in the 2025/26 season, from 1st September [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free and Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml oral suspension MSN/2026/016 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 25 February 2026 Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free will be out of stock from mid-March until June 2026. Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml [...]

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