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From today, community pharmacies across England can offer expanded NHS services to make emergency contraception and support for people prescribed antidepressants more accessible in local communities. Under the expanded Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS), pharmacies are able to provide women across the country access to oral emergency contraception as well as their regular contraceptive pill through [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (29/10/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for October 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Cefalexin 500mg tablets 21 £2.40 Cimetidine 400mg tablets 60 £5.58 Clotrimazole 500mg pessaries 1 £5.25 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets 30 £1.34 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets 100 £4.45 Ferrous gluconate 300mg tablets 28 £5.49 [...]

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The Drug Tariff Preface published monthly, lists additions, deletions and other changes to products listed in the Drug Tariff. Below is a summary of the changes coming into effect from 1 November 2025. Key g Special container – This product is a special container and should be dispensed in its complete original pack size. n Item requiring reconstitution [...]

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This is the third of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around the Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of the LFD service and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. All patients aged 85 years and over are eligible for [...]

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Scan-to-shelf survey Pharmacy owners and team members are encouraged to complete a short NHS England survey to support the development of scan-to-shelf processes and NHS App medicine readiness notifications. This follows on from our previous update about the topic. Feedback from this survey will help the NHS Digital Medicines team, Community Pharmacy England and the [...]

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