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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (18/10/2022) granted the following initial list of price concessions: Drug Pack size Price concession Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £15.25 Amisulpride 200mg tablets 60 £33.92 Cyclizine 50mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules 5 £10.70 Dorzolamide 20mg/ml eye drops 5 £4.32 Duloxetine 60mg gastro-resistant capsules 28 £5.23 Escitalopram [...]

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Pharmacy contractors should note that any NHS prescriptions for the original FreeStyle Libre Sensors submitted for payment after the end of December 2022 will not be passed for payment.  This is because only devices listed in the Appliances section in Part IX (Parts IXA, IXB and IXC) of the Drug Tariff are allowed on NHS prescriptions. Abbott [...]

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The results of the Community Pharmacy IT Group’s (CP ITG’s) IT arrangements survey have now been published. Community pharmacy teams were asked to complete the survey between late 2021 and October 2022. The survey was designed to gather information on frontline pharmacy teams’ perspectives about community pharmacy IT and their pharmacies’ IT arrangements. Some of [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that sufficient stock of Estraderm MX® 25mcg and 100mcg patches is now available to meet normal demand. As a result the Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs), SSP035 Estraderm MX® 25mcg patches and SSP036 Estraderm MX® 100mcg patches expire at 23.59pm on Friday 14 October 2022. After [...]

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From tomorrow (Saturday, 15th October 2022), community pharmacy contractors can begin vaccinating 50 to 64 year olds that are NOT in a clinical risk group. This opens eligibility to around 12 million more people. Contractors are reminded that they must ensure the correct flu vaccines are being used for each patient cohort within the NHS [...]

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