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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (19/01/2024) announced the following initial list of price concessions for January 2024. Please note: We are still in discussion with DHSC on a number other medicines affected by [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has been increasingly aware of delays in the market entry process, which includes change of ownership applications. The process is administered by Primary Care Support England (PCSE) with decisions being made by integrated care boards (ICBs). The delays appear to be due to a number of factors and issues including: increased pharmacy [...]

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Pharmacy owners and their teams can now watch an on-demand recording of Community Pharmacy England’s webinar on the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service. Held last week, around 400 people tuned in to watch our ‘Pharmacy Contraception Service: getting going with the service’ webinar. The latest in our series of webinars* aimed at assisting the [...]

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Pharmacy teams are reminded that they have until the 5 February 2024 to complete and submit the required information for all outstanding referred back (unpaid) prescriptions received prior to July 2022. After 5 February, all referred back prescriptions older than 18 months (including any paper referred back forms sent to pharmacies prior to July 2022) [...]

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Over 90% of community pharmacies in England have now signed up to provide the Pharmacy First service. The service is due to commence on 31st January 2024, subject to the required IT systems being in place. A significant amount of work to get NHS, pharmacy and GP IT systems ready to support the service is [...]

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