Community Pharmacy England (CPE) - News updates

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (30/04/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for April 2025.  Drug Pack size Price concession Ascorbic acid 100mg tablets 28 £30.49 Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £2.73 Carbocisteine 375mg capsules 120 £3.01 Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 70 £9.93 Desmopressin 120microgram sublingual [...] The post April 2025 Price Concessions Final Update appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Fentanyl (Effentora®) 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets Fentanyl (Actiq®) 800microgram lozenges. MSN/2025/025 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 30th April 2025 Effentora® 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets are out of stock until late May 2025. Effentora® 100microgram [...] The post Medicine Supply Notification: Fentanyl (Effentora® ) 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets Fentanyl (Actiq® ) 800microgram lozenges appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

With Early May Bank Holiday (5 May 2025) occurring in the first five days of the FP34C submission window, pharmacy owners will have an extra day, until the end of 6 May 2025, to submit their April FP34Cs using the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal and to dispatch their prescription bundle to the relevant pricing [...] The post Extended FP34C submission deadline for prescriptions dispensed in April 2025 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The Government has laid amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (HMR) in Parliament as the next step towards Hub and Spoke dispensing for community pharmacies. The Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025 Key points of the HMR amendments in brief are: Only Model 1: patient – spoke – [...] The post Government announces the next steps for Hub and Spoke dispensing appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Community Pharmacy England met with health stakeholders last week (Thursday 24th April) to brief them on the impact of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework settlement for 2024/25 and 2025/26 on patients and the pharmacy sector. During the event, attendees heard more about the new funding and contractual arrangements, including how the changes will affect community pharmacies, [...] The post Health Stakeholders briefed on community pharmacy funding settlement appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) produces a quarterly newsletter called “Hints & Tips for dispensing contractors”. The latest edition (Issue 58) contains some useful information and advice on: Tax credits ended on Saturday 5 April 2025 NHS Pharmacy First Service – PPV activity MYS January activity – Monday 5 May 2025 deadline Correctly using [...] The post NHSBSA ‘Hints & Tips’ – Issue 59 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Notification: Brilique 90mg tablets (G Pharma Ltd) Drug alert number: EL(25)A/19 Date issued: 29 April 2025 Jubilant Pharmaceuticals BV has informed the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that the outer carton (box) of the product batches mentioned in this notification are missing the medicines legal classification for a Prescription [...] The post MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Notification: Pregabalin 25mg, 50mg, 75mg, 100mg, 150mg, 200mg, 225mg, 300mg Capsules, (Jubilant Pharmaceuticals NV) appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that the NHS prescription charge will be kept at £9.90 per prescription item for 2025/26. A Government press release today confirms that the NHS prescription charge will be frozen, as well as the costs for prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs). The list of prescription related charges are outlined below. NHS [...] The post NHS prescription charges frozen for 2025/26 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (28/04/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for April 2025.  Drug Pack size Price concession Alfuzosin 2.5mg tablets 60 £4.30 Amiodarone 200mg tablets 28 £1.99 Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £9.25 Carbimazole 20mg tablets 100 £2.65 Carbimazole 5mg tablets 100 £4.63 Codeine 15mg/5ml [...] The post April 2025 Price Concessions 2nd Update appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Ahead of making a claim for the New Medicine Service (NMS) consultations carried out in April 2025, pharmacy owners are reminded of the changes to NMS that were announced as part of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 and that came into effect from 1st April 2025. What can be claimed for? As part of the [...] The post NMS: Making your end of month claim appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.