Pharmacy press Ministers have announced that all those aged 60 and over will remain eligible for exemption from the NHS prescription charge. This is the Government’s official response to a 2021 public consultation that recommended raising the free prescription threshold to meet the state pension age at age 66. Read the consultation outcome in full Chief [...]
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Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help members to complete the 2022/23 Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPTK). The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and the deadline is Friday 30th June 2023. We collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload associated with Toolkit completion manageable [...]
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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®) 300mg and 600mg tablets. MSN/2023/059 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 14th June 2023 Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®) 300mg tablets will be out of stock from late June 2023 until mid-July 2023. Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®) 600mg tablets are out of [...]
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Pharmacy press The Government has responded to the Hewitt Review on integrated care systems (ICS) and the Health Committee’s report on the autonomy and accountability of these systems. Government response to the HSCC report and the Hewitt Review on integrated care systems The Hewitt Review, published in April, suggested that the recruitment of pharmacists in Primary Care [...]
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Mirror Following the closure of 237 Lloyds pharmacies in Sainsbury’s stores this week, we provided temporary and permanent closures as well as a comment from our CEO to the Mirror. Chief Executive Janet Morrison, said: “Our analysis highlights a very worrying trend of pharmacy closures over the past few years. It is a stark indicator [...]
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