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The following price concessions granted in February 2025 have rolled over to March 2025: Drug Pack size March 2025 price concession Calamine lotion 200 £1.78 Colestyramine 4g oral powder sachets 50 £15.95 Nitrazepam 5mg tablets 28 £1.70 Rizatriptan 10mg orodispersible tablets sugar free 3 £8.18 Please note any rolled over prices can be adjusted upwards [...]

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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (05/03/2025) announced the following final list of price concessions for February 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Desmopressin 240microgram sublingual tablets sugar free 30 £36.32 Paracetamol 500mg effervescent [...]

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NHS England and Community Pharmacy England continue to recommend that pharmacy team members with NHS Smartcards take the following actions to support ongoing use of their smartcards. If your smartcard or role on your smartcard was set up a long time ago, there may be an action for you to update it to keep it [...]

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Drug alert number: EL (25)A/10 Date issued: 4 March 2025 Aspar Pharmaceuticals Limited have informed the MHRA of an error related to a batch of Boots Paracetamol 500 mg tablets (16s). The foil blister inside the carton incorrectly states ‘Aspirin 300 mg Dispersible Tablets’. The tablets are confirmed to be Paracetamol 500 mg tablets. Boots [...]

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Drug alert number: EL(25)A/09 Date issued: 4 March 2025 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Europe B.V. is recalling those product batches listed in this notification as a precautionary measure due to out of specification results reported for the Particulate Matter Test (PMT) during stability testing. Medicine Details Pemetrexed SUN 10 mg/ml solution for infusion (Infusion bag) (PL: [...]

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