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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (14/02/2025) announced the following initial list of price concessions for February 2025: Drug  Pack size Price concession Acamprosate 333mg gastro-resistant tablets 168 £21.65 Alendronic acid 70mg tablets* 4 [...]

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A disallowed item is one that has NOT been passed for payment by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). Community Pharmacy England is encouraging pharmacy owners to check their disallowed items history on the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal to identify any unpaid items and check the reasons why these were disallowed by the NHSBSA. If an item is [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency and NHS England have jointly published the national flu vaccination programme letter today (13th February 2025) for the 2025/26 season. Eligible cohorts There are no changes to the eligible cohorts for the 2025/26 season. Timing From 1st September 2025 and in line with [...]

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Community Pharmacy England is reminding pharmacy teams about which EPS tokens need to be submitted. The EPS tokens that are required to be sent to the NHSBSA for end-of-month submission are: EPS tokens used to capture the paid or exemption declaration. Pharmacy First related EPS tokens, where medicines or appliances were supplied as part of [...]

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Following representations made by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy owners, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has retrospectively adjusted the reimbursement prices of certain products dispensed in October and November 2024. Under the current price change mechanism, pharmacy owners would have to wait one (or in some cases two months) before any NHS list prices changes are applied to [...]

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