Community Pharmacy England (CPE) - News updates

Community Pharmacy England on behalf of pharmacy owners made further applications to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), resulting in a further 19 new products being added to the ‘Drugs for which Discount is Not Deducted’ (DND) list from 1 November 2025. This takes the total [...] The post 19 products added to the Discount Not Deducted (DND) list from November 2025 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 November 2025. Generic drug name (dm+d descriptor) Brand and/or Manufacturer Pack size Special container Desmopressin 120microgram sublingual tablets sugar free Aspire Pharma Ltd 30 tablets Subpack of 10 [...] The post 3 products re-classified as special containers from November 2025 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

From today, community pharmacies across England can offer expanded NHS services to make emergency contraception and support for people prescribed antidepressants more accessible in local communities. Under the expanded Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS), pharmacies are able to provide women across the country access to oral emergency contraception as well as their regular contraceptive pill through [...] The post PCS and NMS expansions begin today in community pharmacies across England appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has identified a very small number of pharmacies that are declaring consistently and significantly above their actual number of prescription items dispensed each month when submitting their FP34C declaration via the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. Given the Government’s obligations for Managing Public Money, the Department of Health and Social [...] The post Changes to Advance payments for pharmacies that consistently over-declare items on FP34C appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (29/10/2025) confirmed the following list of price concessions for October 2025: Drug Pack size Price concession Cefalexin 500mg tablets 21 £2.40 Cimetidine 400mg tablets 60 £5.58 Clotrimazole 500mg pessaries 1 £5.25 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets 30 £1.34 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets 100 £4.45 Ferrous gluconate 300mg tablets 28 £5.49 [...] The post October 2025 Price Concessions 3rd Update appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

The Drug Tariff Preface published monthly, lists additions, deletions and other changes to products listed in the Drug Tariff. Below is a summary of the changes coming into effect from 1 November 2025. Key g Special container – This product is a special container and should be dispensed in its complete original pack size. n Item requiring reconstitution [...] The post Drug Tariff Watch – November 2025 appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

This is the third of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around the Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of the LFD service and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. All patients aged 85 years and over are eligible for [...] The post LFD service myth busting series (#3) appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Scan-to-shelf survey Pharmacy owners and team members are encouraged to complete a short NHS England survey to support the development of scan-to-shelf processes and NHS App medicine readiness notifications. This follows on from our previous update about the topic. Feedback from this survey will help the NHS Digital Medicines team, Community Pharmacy England and the [...] The post NHS App research opportunities appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Compound Sodium Lactate Solution for Infusion BP (Hartmann’s Solution for infusion) in Viaflo 1000ml (Baxter Healthcare Limited) Drug alert number: EL(25)A/46 Date issued: 28 October 2025 Baxter Healthcare is recalling one batch of Compound Sodium Lactate (Hartmann’s Solution) 1000mL. This is due to a packaging error where some cartons labelled [...] The post MHRA Class 2 Medicines Recall: Compound Sodium Lactate Solution for Infusion BP (Hartmann’s Solution for infusion) in Viaflo 1000ml (Baxter Healthcare Limited) appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

NHS England has confirmed in an email sent today (27th October 2025) to all pharmacies in England that the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) will go live on Wednesday this week (29th October), as had originally been planned. The planned changes to the New Medicine Service (NMS) will also take place, as planned, [...] The post PCS and NMS expansions to go-live 29th Oct appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.