June 26th 2026

By Ailsa Colquhoun

436 prices up in July Category M update

The Department of Health and Social Care is announcing from 1 July, changes in Category M reimbursement prices will reflect:

• Adjustments for underlying market price movements during the quarter January-March 2026 (Q4 2025/26)
• An upwards adjustment to medicine margin by £24.3 million per quarter, in light of the result of the Medicines Margin Survey covering October-December 2025 (Q3 2025/26)

This adjustment is in accordance with the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2026/27, with the aim of delivering £1.1 billion in medicine margin during the financial year 2026/27 and no recouping of any over-delivery above the agreed write-off levels during this financial year.

In summary, in this adjustment there are: 

• Six additions
• One deletion: trimethoprim 50mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free x 100
• 436 prices are increased, 36 by over 50 per cent
• 167 prices are decreased

DDA members can view the July Category M prices sorted by price order, history and price change by visiting the online library of Category M updates