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Following representations from Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy contractors, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has redetermined the reimbursement prices for EpiPen® and Jext® (adrenaline) preparations dispensed in July 2024. On 1 July 2024, there was an increase in the NHS list prices of EpiPen® and Jext® preparations manufactured by [...]

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Following representations from Community Pharmacy England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that the following products have been granted upward retrospective pricing adjustments due to out of date product and/or pricing information held on NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d). A change to the reimbursement will apply to prescriptions dispensed [...]

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Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Omeprazole products (Sandoz Limited) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/34 Date issued: 07 August 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Omeprazole products (Sandoz Limited) Company name: Sandoz Limited Product name: Omeprazole 10mg gastro-resistant capsules, PL 04416/0651 SNOMED Code: 3753411000001102 [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Cefalexin 500mg tablets. MSN/2024/083 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 6th August 2024 Cefalexin 500mg tablets are out of stock until mid-September 2024. Cefalexin 500mg capsules remain available and can support an uplift in demand. Alternative cefalexin preparations remain [...]

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While there are many eligible groups of people who can access the Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service who are not always easy to identify, people who are collecting prescriptions and are aged 85 years or over, are an easy group to identify (due to their age being included on their prescriptions) as eligible for the [...]

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