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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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The Cybersecurity Unit at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is launching a pilot study to explore the benefits of enhanced cybersecurity support for community pharmacies. This initiative follows a recent sector-wide cyber survey, which highlighted the need for greater support. The pilot is being delivered in collaboration with the National Cyber Security [...]

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Following on from last week’s Spending Review announcement, Community Pharmacy England has joined forces with other national primary care bodies to reiterate our call on Government to prioritise DHSC spending allocations towards primary care. The joint statement, copied below, has been signed by Community Pharmacy England, the General Practitioner’s Committee England, the British Dental Association’s [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for the following products: Levemir® (insulin detemir) FlexPen® 100units/ml solution for injection 3ml pre-filled pens Levemir® Penfill® 100units/ml solution for injection 3ml cartridges MSN/2025/036 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 16/06/2025 Levemir® (insulin detemir) FlexPen® 100units/ml solution for injection [...]

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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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