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Last year 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 to [...]

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NHS-approved pharmacy clinical services IT systems have the functionality to receive referrals from other NHS providers, such as general practices. In many cases, these referrals are sent from the referrer’s IT system to the pharmacy system using IT functionality defined by the NHS Booking and Referral IT Standard (BaRS). What’s changed? The GP IT system, [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (03/11/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for October 2025. The final list for October 2025 includes seven further price concessions and improved prices for two products following representations made by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy owners. Drug Pack size Price concession [...]

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From 1 November 2025, Estradot Conti® 30/95 transdermal patches and Estradot Conti® 40/130 transdermal patches have been added to the list of medicines covered by the HRT prepayment certificate (HRT PPC). This change has been reflected in Part XVI of the November 2025 Drug Tariff and on the NHSBSA’s website. Community Pharmacy England has also updated its HRT medicines [...]

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This is the fourth of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around the Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of the LFD service and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. This is the fourth of a series of articles to [...]

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