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Following representations by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of pharmacies, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has redetermined the reimbursement prices for Jext and Priadel preparations for July 2023 to reflect an increase in their NHS list price. On 1st July 2023 the list prices for Jext preparations were increased by the manufacturer [...]

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Date issued: 31 July 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: various products manufactured by B.Braun Ltd. Gentamicin 3mg/ml solution for infusion, PL 03551/0117 Batch number Expiry date Pack size First distributed 21025402 31/12/2023 120ml Ecoflac Plus 01/03/2021 21056410 31/01/2024 120ml Ecoflac Plus 16/03/2021 Active [...]

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Community Pharmacy England would like to remind pharmacy teams of the importance of submitting the FP34C declaration through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal no later than the 5th of each month (or the 6th where a bank holiday occurs during the first five days of the month) following that in which supply was made. [...]

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National Patient Safety Alert: Potent synthetic opioids implicated in heroin overdoses and deaths National Patient Safety Alert Reference Number: NatPSA/2023/009/OHID Date issued: 26th July 2023 Brief description of the problem In the past 8 weeks there has been an elevated number of overdoses (with some deaths) in people who use drugs, primarily heroin, in many [...]

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