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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 (13/02/2024) announced the following initial list of price concessions for February 2024. Drug Pack size Price concession Atorvastatin 80mg tablets 28 £2.64 Azithromycin 250mg capsules 6 £4.67 Bimatoprost [...]

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The NHSmail team previously announced that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is set to become mandatory across the platform for all NHSmail users from later within 2024. What is MFA? Normally you use your email address and password to log into your NHSmail account. MFA is an additional way of checking that it is really you when [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for: Formoterol (Oxis® 6 Turbohaler) 6micrograms/dose dry powder inhaler. MSN/2024/018 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 12th February 2024 Formoterol (Oxis® 6 Turbohaler) 6micrograms/dose dry powder inhalers are out of stock until mid March 2024. Formoterol (Oxis® 12 Turbohaler) 12micrograms/dose [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the latest Data Security and Protection Toolkit. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Sunday 30th June 2024. Community Pharmacy England has collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload [...]

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