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Data Security and Protection Toolkit Workshop: Support with completing your 2025 toolkit submission Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar on Thursday 13th February at 7.30pm to help community pharmacy owners to complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit 2025. We have worked in collaboration with the NHS DSPTK team on the new requirements and made improvements [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules. MSN/2025/004 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 20th January 2025 Hydrocortisone sodium phosphate 100mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules are in limited supply with stock exhaustion anticipated by late March 2025; anticipated [...]

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This is the ninth of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around Pharmacy First. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of Pharmacy First and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. If I receive a message that my Pharmacy First IT system cannot send an automated [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that sufficient stock of Monomil® XL 60mg tablets is now available to meet normal demand. As a result the Serious Shortage Protocol (SSP), SSP075 Monomil® XL 60mg tablets expires at 23.59pm on Friday 17 January 2025. After this date, any prescriptions for Monomil® XL 60mg [...]

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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 (17/01/2025) announced the following list of price concessions for January 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Acamprosate 333mg gastro-resistant tablets 168 £21.90 Bimatoprost 300micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye [...]

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