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The list of price concessions granted for May 2026 currently includes 219 lines. With a few more lines still being discussed, this already surpasses the number of price concessions granted in the previous two record-breaking months. Third month of record drug price concessions | Chemist+Druggist The continuation of this concerning trend is putting more pressure [...]

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Following representations from Community Pharmacy England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has re-determined that the following products will be granted special container status from 1 June 2026. Generic drug name (dm+d descriptor) Brand and/or manufacturer Pack Size Special container Semaglutide 1.5mg tablets Rybelsus® 1.5mg tablets (Novo Nordisk Ltd) 30 tablet        [...]

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Announcement Summary Funding to increase by 10.3% (£340m) in 2026/27 to £3.636 billion Government commits to working jointly on programme of reform, which will be critically important to set the future strategy for the sector Margin write-off up to end of 2025/26, and funding uplift includes £200 million to be added to the annual margin [...]

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MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Sertraline 100mg film-coated tablets (Amarox Limited) Drug alert number: EL(26)A/25 Date issued: 28 May 2026 Crescent Pharma Limited is initiating a precautionary recall of one batch of Ramipril 2.5 mg Capsules following the identification of a potential packaging error at the manufacturing site. DMRC reference number: DMRC-39617807 Company name: Crescent Pharma [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (28/05/2026) confirmed the following list of price concessions for May 2026: Please note: Community Pharmacy England has submitted price concession applications for a number of other medicines affected by pricing issues this month. We will issue further updates as soon as we hear back from the [...]

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