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Community Pharmacy England is hosting a national engagement event for pharmacy owners. Building on our previous engagement events, this reflects our ongoing commitment to engage with pharmacy owners across the sector more actively. The event will provide pharmacy owners the [...]
Published on: 15th April 2024 | Updated on: 13th May 2024
Community Pharmacy England has opened registration for a national event for pharmacy owners as part of our ongoing efforts to engage more meaningfully with everyone in the sector. The pressures facing all pharmacy businesses are extreme, and the event [...]
Published on: 15th April 2024 | Updated on: 7th May 2024
GP Connect: Update Record is a new feature that CPCF IT system suppliers are adding to their systems. Update Record allows information about patient consultations outside of general practice to be shared safely with general practice, so the information can [...]
Published on: 12th April 2024 | Updated on: 22nd April 2024
The look of your monthly Schedule of Payments (and eSchedules) is changing from April 2024. The next payment schedule due to be received on the 23 April (for February 2024 dispensing month) will have several improvements including: Breakdown of Pharmacy [...]
Published on: 12th April 2024 | Updated on: 16th May 2024
Community Pharmacy England has launched a set of materials – including a video animation and infographic – explaining how GP practices can electronically refer into the Pharmacy First service. The digital explainers have been developed to help increase understanding of [...]
Published on: 11th April 2024 | Updated on: 29th April 2024
Drug alert number: EL (24)A/12 Date issued: 10 April 2024 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a class 3 medicines recall for: Co-Codamol 8/500mg Effervescent tablets (Accord-UK Ltd (Key Pharmaceuticals Livery)) PL 0142/1258 SNOMED Code: 42596911000001102 [...]
Published on: 10th April 2024 | Updated on: 10th April 2024
MPs from across the political spectrum have called on the Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins MP to address the acute funding crisis facing the community pharmacy sector. Whilst taking the opportunity to welcome the introduction of the Pharmacy First service, a [...]
Published on: 8th April 2024 | Updated on: 8th April 2024
Some pharmacy owners are continuing to identify issues with the Pharmacy First service figures within the MYS portal, which are not matching the number of consultations completed within their Pharmacy First IT system. This week, we have been supporting pharmacy [...]
Published on: 5th April 2024 | Updated on: 5th April 2024
In March 2024, it was announced that from April 2024 a retrospective top-up payment system for price concession lines will be implemented. This is an outcome from the Price Concession Review, which was agreed as part of the 2022/23 and [...]
Published on: 5th April 2024 | Updated on: 5th April 2024
From 1st March 2024, an additional fixed out-of-pocket expense payment of £50 will be automatically applied to NHS prescriptions for Cefuroxime 5% eye drops preservative free (a non-Drug Tariff special). Due to the unique temperature-controlled transport and storage requirements of [...]
Published on: 5th April 2024 | Updated on: 5th April 2024
Please note we revised our Prescription Charge Card on 2nd May. The new version can be downloaded below. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that from 1st May 2024, the NHS prescription charge will increase to £9.90 per prescription [...]
Published on: 4th April 2024 | Updated on: 3rd May 2024
The Pressures Survey will now close at 12 noon on Monday 8th April. We are keeping the Pressures Survey open for a few days longer to give you more time to share your thoughts. We know how busy everyone working [...]
Published on: 3rd April 2024 | Updated on: 8th April 2024
Pharmacy press Official figures reveal that the number of patients waiting four weeks or more to see a GP increased across all regions of England last year. According to the analysis conducted by the Liberal Democrats, patients were forced to [...]
Published on: 3rd April 2024 | Updated on: 10th April 2024
Update 2nd April 2024: The 3rd price concession update published below on 28 March 2024 is the final update for March. There are no further price concessions to announce. Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of [...]
Published on: 2nd April 2024 | Updated on: 2nd April 2024
Community Pharmacy England has been informed that the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is seeing an increase in prescriptions where patients are claiming prescription charge exemption by selecting the “HRT only prescription prepayment certificate” exemption reason for products that are [...]
Published on: 2nd April 2024 | Updated on: 4th April 2024
