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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Paracetamol suppositories. MSN/2023/062 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 29th June 2023 Paracetamol 60mg suppositories are out of stock until w/c 1st April 2024 Paracetamol 125mg suppositories are out of stock until October 2023. Paracetamol 240mg suppositories are out [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Diazepam 10mg/2.5ml rectal solution tubes. MSN/2023/063 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 29th June 2023 Diazepam 10mg/2.5ml rectal solution tubes will be out of stock from mid-July until mid-August 2023 Certain strengths of midazolam oromucosal solution pre-filled syringes remain [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will host a Parliamentary drop-in event in July to brief MPs and Peers about the ongoing medicines supply chain issues that are negatively affecting pharmacies and their patients across the country. Since our Pressures Survey earlier this year highlighted the extent of both the operational and financial impacts of medicines supply issues [...]

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Pharmacy press During the public inquiry into the Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, former health secretary Matt Hancock said that work on medicine supply chains in preparations for a no-deal Brexit ‘was the difference between running out of medicines in the peak of the pandemic and not running out’. He credited the work undertaken [...]

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Pharmacy press The Government has announced a new Digital NHS Health Check to be rolled out across England next spring delivering an additional one million checks in the first 4 years. Read Government announcement Director of NHS Services, Alastair Buxton, said: “The original Government announcement of the plan to adopt a digital approach to NHS [...]

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