Scan-to-shelf survey Pharmacy owners and team members are encouraged to complete a short NHS England survey to support the development of scan-to-shelf processes and NHS App medicine readiness notifications. This follows on from our previous update about the topic. Feedback from this survey will help the NHS Digital Medicines team, Community Pharmacy England and the [...]
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MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Compound Sodium Lactate Solution for Infusion BP (Hartmann’s Solution for infusion) in Viaflo 1000ml (Baxter Healthcare Limited) Drug alert number: EL(25)A/46 Date issued: 28 October 2025 Baxter Healthcare is recalling one batch of Compound Sodium Lactate (Hartmann’s Solution) 1000mL. This is due to a packaging error where some cartons labelled [...]
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NHS England has confirmed in an email sent today (27th October 2025) to all pharmacies in England that the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) will go live on Wednesday this week (29th October), as had originally been planned. The planned changes to the New Medicine Service (NMS) will also take place, as planned, [...]
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This is the second of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around the Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of the LFD service and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. All patients who are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination are [...]
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This Medicines Supply Notification supersedes the National Patient Safety Alert issued on 29 July 2025 Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment MSN/2025/058 Tier 3 – high impact Date of issue: 23rd October 2025 Following the National Patient Safety Alert issued [...]
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