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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 earlier this week, over 600 people tuned in to watch our ‘Pharmacy Contraception Service: Initiating Contraception’ webinar. The first in our series of webinars* aimed at assisting the pharmacy sector [...]

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Pharmacy owners providing the autumn/winter 2023/24 COVID-19 vaccination service are reminded that the last day for national booking service (NBS) booked appointments for COVID-19 and NHS flu vaccinations is 14th December 2023. Sites should not post NBS clinics after this date as it will be closed to bookings on 15th December 2023. The system will [...]

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Following on from the publication of the service specification, clinical pathways, draft Patient Group Directions and protocol for the Pharmacy First service, and ahead of the launch of the service on 31st January 2024, we have produced some initial resources to support pharmacy owners and their teams to start to prepare for the service. Pharmacy [...]

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Update 07/12/23 The update includes the availability of the updated PIL and also includes corrections to the batch numbers detailed in the notification which were incorrectly provided by the MAH at the time of issue (highlighted in red in the table below). Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Clarithromycin 250mg and 500mg tablets (Strandhaven Ltd t/a [...]

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Update 07/12/2023: The update includes corrections to the batch numbers detailed in the notification which were incorrectly provided by the MAH at the time of issue (highlighted in red in the table below). Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Tramadol Hydrochloride 50mg capsules (Strandhaven Ltd t/a Somex Pharma Ltd) Drug alert number: EL(23)A/41 Date issued: 06 [...]

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