Community Pharmacy England has issued the following statement in response to the Prime Minister’s announcement of a UK General Election. Our Chief Executive Janet Morrison said: “We have been preparing for the news of a UK General Election for many months, briefing and building support for community pharmacy across all political parties. That work remains [...]
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Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Sodium Chloride 0.9% Intravenous Infusion BP Freeflex and Freeflex PLUS (Fresenius Kabi Limited) Drug alert number: EL (24)A/17 Date issued: 22 May 2024 The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 4 medicines defect information notice for: Sodium Chloride 0.9% Intravenous Infusion BP Freeflex and Freeflex PLUS [...]
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has provided an update on the Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) for Clarithromycin 125mg/5ml and 250mg/5ml oral suspensions (SSP053 and SSP054). SSP053 and SSP054 were due to expire on 21 June but the end date has been further extended to Friday 19 July 2024. In response to a [...]
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This is the third of a series of articles to help pharmacy owners and their teams to maximise the potential of the Hypertension Case-finding Service (HCFS). The re-launch of the service, including the ability to use the wider pharmacy team to provide parts of the service, allows pharmacy owners to review how they provide the [...]
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If the Pharmacy First service is to deliver the maximum possible benefit to patients, the NHS and community pharmacies, it is important that there is a strong relationship between community pharmacies and local general practices. Such strong local relationships will give confidence to general practice teams to make referrals to the Pharmacy First and other [...]
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