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Important regulatory changes to the community pharmacy sector – including those on distance selling premises (DSP) pharmacies and core opening hours – have been laid before Parliament today (2 June 2025) and will come into force in 21 days, on 23 June 2025. The amendment regulations make changes to the NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical [...]

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MHRA Class 4 Medicines Notification: Various Products (Zentiva Pharma UK Limited) Date issued: 2 June 2025 Zentiva Pharma UK Limited has informed the MHRA that the batches of soluble or effervescent tablets listed in the annexes are taking longer than expected to fully dissolve, resulting in an increase in residual material being observed. Additionally, some [...]

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From today (1st June 2025) several changes take effect for the Pharmacy First service following the announcement of these as part of the contractual settlement for 2025/26. Below is a reminder of these changes. ‘Bundling’ requirements for the monthly payment From today, the bundling requirements for Pharmacy First come into force, which impacts on whether [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (30/05/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for May 2025.  Drug Pack size Price concession Acetazolamide 250mg tablets 112 £47.22 Cefradine 500mg capsules 20 £13.44 Conjugated oestrogens 1.25mg tablets 84 £52.56 Conjugated oestrogens 300microgram tablets 84 £24.02 Conjugated oestrogens 625microgram tablets 84 £26.87 Duloxetine [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by 30th June 2025. Community Pharmacy England has collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload associated with [...]

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