January 2025 Price Concessions Final Update
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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (31/01/2025) announced the following final list of price concessions for January 2025:
Drug | Pack size | Price concession |
Alendronic acid 70mg tablets | 4 | £1.21 |
Alfacalcidol 250nanogram capsules | 30 | £2.56 |
Amantadine 100mg capsules | 56 | £14.46 |
Ascorbic acid 500mg tablets | 28 | £37.49 |
Bromocriptine 2.5mg tablets | 30 | £57.00 |
Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free | 7 | £1.43 |
Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free | 7 | £8.49 |
Captopril 50mg tablets | 56 | £29.19 |
Carbimazole 5mg tablets | 100 | £6.69 |
Desmopressin 240microgram sublingual tablets sugar free | 30 | £39.26 |
Dexamethasone (base) 3.3mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules | 10 | £9.25 |
Diclofenac diethylammonium 1.16% gel | 100 | £5.55 |
Flucloxacillin 250mg/5ml oral solution sugar free | 100 | £5.20 |
Haloperidol 1.5mg tablets | 28 | £7.56 |
Isosorbide mononitrate 10mg tablets | 56 | £1.74 |
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye drops | 2.5 | £3.05 |
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml eye drops | 2.5 | £1.53 |
Lercanidipine 10mg tablets | 28 | £2.38 |
Lofepramine 70mg tablets | 56 | £24.38 |
Lorazepam 1mg tablets | 28 | £3.20 |
Melatonin 1mg/ml oral solution sugar free | 150 | £25.56 |
Melatonin 2mg modified-release tablets | 30 | £2.86 |
Memantine 10mg tablets | 28 | £2.43 |
Memantine 10mg/ml oral solution sugar free | 50 | £21.50 |
Memantine 20mg tablets | 28 | £4.65 |
Metformin 1g / Sitagliptin 50mg tablets | 56 | £8.02 |
Metformin 500mg/5ml oral solution sugar free | 150 | £15.71 |
Mometasone 0.1% cream | 30 | £3.20 |
Olanzapine 10mg orodispersible tablets sugar free | 28 | £12.63 |
Olanzapine 15mg tablets | 28 | £3.25 |
Ondansetron 4mg tablets | 10 | £4.95 |
Pregabalin 150mg capsules | 56 | £2.33 |
Pregabalin 20mg/ml oral solution sugar free | 473 | £58.80 |
Pregabalin 50mg capsules | 84 | £7.63 |
Pregabalin 75mg capsules | 56 | £1.54 |
Prucalopride 2mg tablets | 28 | £10.00 |
Quetiapine 200mg tablets | 60 | £12.06 |
Ropinirole 2mg tablets | 28 | £25.99 |
Sitagliptin 100mg/5ml oral solution sugar free | 150 | £31.01 |
Tadalafil 2.5mg tablets | 28 | £12.08 |
Tadalafil 20mg tablets | 4 | £1.04 |
Tadalafil 5mg tablets | 28 | £6.07 |
Telmisartan 80mg tablets | 28 | £9.93 |
Vardenafil 20mg tablets | 4 | £20.03 |
Venlafaxine 225mg modified-release capsules | 28 | £18.40 |
For the full list of price concessions granted for January 2025 so far please visit our price concession hub page here.
No additional endorsements are required for price concessions. A price concession only applies for the month it is granted; any prices agreed for concessions requested late in the month will roll over into the following month.
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Improvements to the price concession system
Following significant concerns raised by pharmacy owners about the unsustainable level of prices imposed by DHSC in second half of 2022, it was agreed that an urgent review of the price concession setting system would take place.
Since this announcement, we have sent a strong and clear message back to Government that pharmacy owners cannot continue to subsidise the NHS medicines bill. Following the review of the concessionary price process in 2023, a package of measures has been developed to improve the system. These include:
- all products granted a concessionary price will be classified as ‘Discount Not Deducted’ for the month(s) in which they are on concession
- any agreed prices for concessions requested on or after the 23rd of the month will be rolled over to the following month
- a retrospective increased payment system for price concession lines where data subsequently identifies that the original price concessions granted were inappropriately low. Further information regarding this concession ‘top-up’ mechanism can be found here.
Please see our latest funding and reimbursement short video for further information on all the recent changes to the price concession process.