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Almost 60% of community pharmacy owners have completed the 2024/25 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire. Pharmacy owners yet to complete the screening questionnaire are reminded they have until Wednesday 31st July 2024 to complete it.   As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion of CPAF is now a [...]

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Carbamazepine 100mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free (Accord) MSN/2024/077 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 18th July 2024 Carbamazepine 100mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free from Accord is out of stock until mid-August 2024. Tegretol® (carbamazepine) 100mg/5ml liquid remains available but [...]

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As the provision of clinical services in community pharmacies continues to grow, pharmacy professionals who want to update their knowledge of best practice in record keeping can access the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education Documenting in patient clinical records e-learning programme. This learning programme will support pharmacy professionals to: Summarise the legal and regulatory requirements [...]

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As we continue our regional roadshow events across the country, our CEO, Janet Morrison, invites pharmacy owners to join face-to-face discussions about the future of community pharmacy in her latest video update. These events offer pharmacy owners the opportunity to share their views, ask questions of the Community Pharmacy England team, and discover how they [...]

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In response to significant ongoing disruption to the supply of some Quetiapine tablets, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued nine new Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs). The nine new SSPs, introduced with immediate effect, allow community pharmacists to consider different options to enable continued supply of quetiapine tablets to mitigate the ongoing [...]

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