Drug Tariff updates

The Department of Health and Social Care has published a fifth update to the initial list of October concessions.

This update adds 47 prices and increases one existing price (shown in bold). This brings the total number of October concessions to date to 180.

In addition, Community Pharmacy Scotland has published an initial update to the initial list of adjusted prices for October.

This update adds six prices, and increases the prices of 18 existing items.

Details of the updates are available in a downloadable spreadsheets for DDA members.

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