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The next decade offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform the community pharmacy sector into a cornerstone of the Government’s proposed Neighbourhood Health Service, says a report commissioned by Community Pharmacy England and published today. The new report, ‘A Prescription for Success – the role of community pharmacy in delivering the 10 year plan for health‘, [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that from the start of 2026, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) will start using paper FP10 prescription forms for all outsourced prescriptions issued by MOD medical facilities. Any MOD-issued paper FP10 prescriptions should be processed by pharmacy teams in the usual way. The small number of MOD-issued [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (21/11/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for November 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Amiodarone 100mg tablets 28 £4.30 Bumetanide 1mg tablets 28 £2.56 Clotrimazole 500mg pessaries 1 £5.34 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets 30 £1.35 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets 100 £4.49 Fluticasone 400microgram/unit dose nasal drops 30 [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that the NHS prescription charge will remain at £9.90 per prescription item for 2026/27. A Government press release today confirms that the NHS prescription charge will be frozen, as well as the costs for prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs). The list of 2026/27 prescription-related charges are outlined below. [...]

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Politicians and policy experts have cited integration, localism and prevention as some of the core components required to build a future-fit NHS. The themes have been identified in a written report on Community Pharmacy England’s series of policy events at this year’s political party conferences. The discussions concluded that community pharmacy, in particular, is foundational [...]

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