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6,514 contractors have submitted their valproate audit data; have you submitted your data yet? By 31st March 2023, all community pharmacy contractors must have completed the 2022/23 national clinical audit on valproate over a six-week consecutive period and have submitted their data via the Valproate audit 2022/23 tab on MYS. This is a mandatory contractual [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (22/03/2023) granted the following list of price concessions for March 2023. Drug Pack size Price concession Bisoprolol 2.5mg tablets 28 £1.18 Calcipotriol 0.005% / Betamethasone dipropionate 0.05% ointment 30 £10.29 Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 70 £5.54 Clotrimazole 1% cream 20 £2.29 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg effervescent tablets 32 [...]

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NHS England (NHSE) has published a report on the high risk medicines audit* from the 2019/20 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS). 10,673 (90%) community pharmacy contractors participated in the audit and 40,419 patients were audited. This audit shows that pharmacists and pharmacy teams have a very important role in ensuring that high risk medicines are understood [...]

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Drug alert number: EL(23)A/11 Date issued: 21 March 2023 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 2 medicines recall for: Sildenafil 10mg/ml Oral Suspension (Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Ltd) – PL 00427/0258 Batch Number Expiry Date Pack Size First Distributed SLD22002 April 2025 122ml June 2022 Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Sildenafil (as Citrate) [...]

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Community pharmacies received strong backing today in the House of Lords, with a number of Peers speaking out in support of pharmacies and others asking when Government would address the current crisis in the sector. The House of Lords oral questions session was opened by Baroness Hodgson on behalf of Baroness Cumberlege as follows: “To [...]

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