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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (18/04/2023) granted the following initial list of price concessions for April 2023: Drug Pack size Price concession Amisulpride 100mg tablets 60 £20.29 Amisulpride 50mg tablets 60 £13.09 Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 100 £4.01 Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free 100 £3.50 Amoxicillin 500mg capsules 15 [...]

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The Summary Care Record (SCRa) portal is scheduled to be replaced by a new system called the National Care Records Service (NCRS) from September 2023. From now until September, both the SCRa portal and the NCRS portal will be accessible. NCRS and SCR portal differences The NCRS enables pharmacy professionals to: view the previous Summary Care [...]

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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has now nominated its representatives to sit on PSNC (soon to be Community Pharmacy England) for the 2023-2027 term. The following people will represent independent pharmacy owners: Representative name Ian Cubbin Olivier Picard This concludes the appointment and election  of committee members. Their role is to govern the work of [...]

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NHS England (NHSE) has announced that the Pharmacy Contraception Service will launch from 24th April 2023.  This start date for the service has not been agreed with PSNC and is in direct contradiction of our warning to Ministers that no new or expanded services can be rolled out in 2023/24 unless extra funding is put [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Estradiol (Estradot®) 75micrograms/24hours transdermal patches. MSN/2023/047 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue 13th April 2023 Estradiol (Estradot®) 75micrograms/24hours transdermal patches are out of stock until early May 2023. An alternative brand of estradiol patches, Evorel®, available as 75micrograms/24hours can [...]

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