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The first 2025/26 national health campaign starts today (Monday 20th October 2025). All pharmacies will need to participate in the campaign, using relevant materials to promote the Pharmacy First service to the public. The campaign takes place alongside an NHS England advertising campaign promoting Pharmacy First to the public. The NHS England advertising campaign will, [...]

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Pharmacy owners are reminded of the requirement to complete the 2025 workforce survey, which is a mandatory requirement for all pharmacy owners. The NHS Business Services Authority sent an email to pharmacy owners containing a link to the survey in September. In some cases, for example, if you work for a multiple pharmacy group, the survey [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (16/10/2025) confirmed the following initial list of price concessions for October 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Amiodarone 100mg tablets 28 £2.74 Amiodarone 200mg tablets 28 £6.05 Co-careldopa 12.5mg/50mg tablets 90 £5.97 Co-careldopa 25mg/100mg tablets 100 £8.38 Cyclizine 50mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules 5 £3.80 Dutasteride [...]

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As winter approaches and cases of COVID-19 increase, pharmacy owners may want to consider provision and promotion of the COVID-19 Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service. While this service is available throughout the year, pharmacy teams may start to see more patients asking about the availability of the service and consideration could be given to highlighting [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar about the new hub and spoke dispensing regulations on Wednesday 29th October at 7pm. Regulations permitting hub and spoke dispensing between different retail pharmacy business came into effect earlier this month The new provisions enable all pharmacies to have hub and spoke arrangements, subject to certain requirements [...]

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