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There is now less than one week to go before the bundling requirements for Pharmacy First come into force, which will impact on whether pharmacy owners are entitled to a monthly fixed payment for the service. From 1st June 2025, pharmacy owners must be registered and able to deliver the Hypertension Case Finding Service*, the [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (23/05/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for May 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £2.73 Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £10.35 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg effervescent tablets 32 £2.41 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg effervescent tablets 100 £7.52 Codeine 15mg/5ml linctus [...]

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We are looking for someone who is passionate about community pharmacy and interested in the important work that Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) do, to join our LPC and Pharmacy Owner Support Team. The team is expanding to include the new post of LPC Engagement and Support Manager, which has been created to enhance the support [...]

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MHRA Class 2 Medicines Notification: Mercaptopurine 50mg Tablets (Aspen Pharma Trading Limited) Drug alert number: EL(25)A/23 Date issued: 22 May 2025 Aspen Pharma Trading Limited is recalling a specific batch of Mercaptopurine 50mg tablets as a precautionary measure due to microbial contamination following a small number of complaints of discoloured tablets within the packs, identified [...]

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Pharmacy teams should be aware that the brand Nystan® 100,000units/ml oral suspension (ready mixed) (Vygoris Ltd) 30 ml has been discontinued and is no longer available for community pharmacies to order. Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd has introduced a generic version of Nystatin 100,000units/ml oral suspension, which is available to order from wholesalers. Please note, where [...]

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