Community Pharmacy England (CPE) - News updates

We want to hear community pharmacy owners’ opinions on the future direction of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) to help shape negotiating priorities for 2026/27. Ahead of CPCF 2026/27 negotiations, our summer survey aims to gather views on potential funding allocations, service priorities and regulatory asks. The questions have been informed by discussions at [...] The post Future CPCF: What’s most important to you? appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Opinions from pharmacy owners and LPCs across the country are being compiled, alongside inputs from national pharmacy organisations and results from ongoing sector polling, to inform Community Pharmacy England Committee discussions on negotiating priorities for 2026/27. The Committee will consider all inputs, alongside Community Pharmacy England’s own analysis, to inform positioning and objectives for the [...] The post Sector workshop findings to inform Committee discussions appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Following representations made by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy owners, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has redetermined the following July 2025 concessionary prices: Drug Pack size Previous price concession  for July 2025 New price concession for July 2025 Fexofenadine 180mg tablets 30 £2.31 £4.10 Pioglitazone 45mg tablets 28 £25.25 [...] The post Improved price concessions for July 2025 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

NHS England previously announced the launch of a new community pharmacy Point of Care (PoC) IT Supplier Contractual Framework, which will allow pharmacy owners to choose which PoC system they use to make their clinical records for the Flu and COVID-19 vaccination services during the Autumn/Winter 2025/26 campaign. IT suppliers listed on the new framework will be assured by NHS [...] The post Getting ready for the Flu Vaccination Service: Have you chosen your IT system yet? appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Notification: Topiramate Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK 20mg/ml Oral Solution, Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd Drug alert number: EL(25)A/39 Date issued: 07 August 2025 Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK LTD has informed the MHRA that there is an error on the artwork for the outer carton and Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) of Topiramate Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK [...] The post Class 4 Medicines Defect Notification: Topiramate Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK 20mg/ml Oral Solution, Zydus Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for the following product: Estradiol (Progynova® TS) 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours transdermal patches MSN/2025/048 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 06/08/2025 Progynova® TS 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours transdermal patches (once weekly estradiol patches) will be discontinued from late December 2025 and [...] The post Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Progynova® TS) 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours transdermal patches appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar about the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Service, in collaboration with NHS England, on Wednesday 20th August at 7.30pm. On the night Alastair Buxton, Director of NHS Services at Community Pharmacy England, and colleagues from NHS England, will explain how the service will operate and help community pharmacy [...] The post Childhood Flu Vaccination Service webinar appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Fucidin 250 mg Tablets, LEO Laboratories Ltd trading as LEO Pharma Drug alert number: EL(25)A/38 Date issued: 04 August 2025 LEO Pharma is recalling the affected batch as a precautionary measure due to out of specification results for impurities during routine stability testing. DMRC reference number: DMRC-36306427 Company name: LEO [...] The post MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Fucidin 250 mg Tablets, LEO Laboratories Ltd trading as LEO Pharma appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Following representations from Community Pharmacy England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has re-determined that the following products will be granted special container status from 1 August 2025. Generic drug name (dm+d descriptor) Brand and/or Manufacturer Pack size Special container Hydrocortisone 500microgram granules in capsules for opening Alkindi® 0.5 mg granules in capsules [...] The post 10 products re-classified as special containers from August 2025 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Registration for the new Children’s Flu Vaccination Service for children aged 2-3 years is now open on the NHS Business Services Authority’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. As announced last week, this is one-season trial of the new Advanced service and pharmacy owners that choose to provide the service will be able to commence vaccinating eligible [...] The post Children’s Flu Vac: Registration has now opened appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.