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Announcement Summary Funding to increase by 10.3% (£340m) in 2026/27 to £3.636 billion Government commits to working jointly on programme of reform, which will be critically important to set the future strategy for the sector Margin write-off up to end of 2025/26, and funding uplift includes £200 million to be added to the annual margin [...]

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MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Sertraline 100mg film-coated tablets (Amarox Limited) Drug alert number: EL(26)A/25 Date issued: 28 May 2026 Crescent Pharma Limited is initiating a precautionary recall of one batch of Ramipril 2.5 mg Capsules following the identification of a potential packaging error at the manufacturing site. DMRC reference number: DMRC-39617807 Company name: Crescent Pharma [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (28/05/2026) confirmed the following list of price concessions for May 2026: Please note: Community Pharmacy England has submitted price concession applications for a number of other medicines affected by pricing issues this month. We will issue further updates as soon as we hear back from the [...]

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As part of our Funding & Reimbursement Shorts series, Community Pharmacy England’s in-house Drug Tariff experts have created a new video to explain the dispensing and endorsing requirements for Controlled Drugs (CDs) prescribed on blue paper FP10MDA instalment prescription forms. In this video, Sarah Welbourne (Dispensing and Supply Officer) and Alisha Khatri (Dispensing and Supply Pharmacist) [...]

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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 June 2026. 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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