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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (29/09/2026) confirmed the following list of price concessions for September 2026: Please note: Community Pharmacy England has submitted price concession applications for other medicines affected by pricing issues this month. We will issue further updates as soon as we hear back from the Department. Drug Pack [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced in Part VIIIE of the October 2026 Drug Tariff that 9 products dispensed between January and March 2026 will receive retrospective top-up payments because, according to Margins Survey data, the original concessionary prices granted for these products were found to be inappropriately low compared to [...]

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The Public Health and Patient Safety Minister, Dame Diana Johnson DBE, has praised pharmacy’s “amazing work” and described herself as a “big fan” of the sector during a Community Pharmacy England-sponsored fringe event at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. The event, organised in partnership with the think tank Re:State, explored how Labour’s vision for [...]

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Following representations made by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy owners, the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has agreed to make retrospective reimbursement adjustments for all Aymes ActaGain Protein Shot tropical fruit prescriptions dispensed between April 2026 and August 2026. This was due to an authoring error in the Dictionary of Medicines and [...]

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