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April 26th 2024

Shape the Duty of Candour review

The Department of Health and Social Care is to review the statutory (note: not professional) duty of candour for health and social care providers in England following reports that the duty is not always met as intended in regulation 20. Such failure

April 11th 2024

Initial Scottish April adjusted prices published

Community Pharmacy Scotland, in agreement with NHS Scotland, has published a third update to the initial list of adjusted prices for March. In summary there are nine changes: two new price and seven price increases Latest changes are detai

April 9th 2024

Cefuroxime 5% eye drops preservative free out of pocket expense

From 1 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). The payment was negotiated by Community P

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April 2nd 2024

DHSC imposes changes to concession pricing

Community Pharmacy England has warned of changes that may lower concession prices paid between April and June. The changes came into effect from April 1 and, according to CPE are untested and imposed. CPE adds that no recovery or downward pressure o

March 28th 2024

Q1 (April) Category M removes 31 items

The April (Q1 24-25) Category M adjustment has been published. In summary there are 31 deletions and six additions, leaving a total of 633 lines in Category M. The six additions are: Chloramphenicol 0.5% eye drops 10 Oxycodon

March 18th 2024

Initial March concessions published for England and Wales

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published an initial list of price concessions for England and Wales for March 2024. These are detailed for members in the online library of Drug Tariff Updates  

March 11th 2024

New arrangements for Category A from April

Under new arrangements, from April reimbursement prices for Category A of the Drug Tariff for England and Wales will be set differently. Replacing previous arrangements where the reimbursement prices in Category A were set as the weighted average of

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