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Last week NHS England announced that PCSE would take over the administration and processing of notices of withdrawal from a pharmaceutical list. From today, 1st July 2024, any notices of withdrawal should be sent to pcse.marketentry@nhs.net. Any notices submitted prior to 1st July 2024 will still be processed by the ICB directly and any queries [...]

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The 2024/25 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire is now available for completion until midnight on Wednesday 31st July 2024. As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion of CPAF is now a requirement of the Terms of Service. Therefore, pharmacy owners must complete the screening questionnaire and, if required, [...]

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Pharmacy owners across Yorkshire & the Humber and the West Midlands are invited to meet the Community Pharmacy England team to discuss the issues that matter to you. Chief Executive Janet Morrison and the team are heading to Leeds on Tuesday 16th July and then onto Birmingham on Wednesday 17th July to talk directly to [...]

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EMIS Pinnacle started rolling out the GP Connect Update Record feature to all community pharmacy teams using PharmOutcomes from Friday 28th June 2024. Initially, this covers Hypertension Case-finding Service and Pharmacy Contraception Service consultations. Update Record is a new feature that CPCF IT system suppliers have been adding to their systems, with Cegedim and Positive [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (28/06/2024) confirmed the following list of price concessions for June 2024. This announcement comes late in the month and follows the decision to impose changes to concessions pricing from April 2024 to try to manage purchase margins. DHSC has applied its new margin reduction formula as a final [...]

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