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An SOP on delivering EHC as a National Enhanced Service in Wales. Updated

ShortagesHuw Irranca-Davies (Labour, Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Health:(1) what assessment he has made of the time taken to supply prescription…

The website address for reporting adverse drug reactions has changed. The Yellow Card website can now be accessed via the URL www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard

Aurum Pharmaceuticals is recalling one batch of Adrenaline (Epinephrine) ampoules 1:10,000, 10ml. The product licence (PL) number is 12064/0006. The affected batch number is 1255398 and has an expiry date of January 2013

Clarification of guidance on vitamin D supplementation has recently been released by the UK’s Health Departments.The Information Department would like to clarify the current guidance

Clarification of guidance on vitamin D supplementation has recently been released by the UK’s Health Departments.The Information Department would like to clarify the current guidance

Information factsheets providing points to consider when screening prescriptions for Vitamin D. Updated.

Latest updates on NCSO (No cheaper stock obtainable) concessions for 2012.

The Yellow Card website URL has been changed to www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard.Pharmacies are permitted to use existing stocks of materials which include…

Travellers who intend taking their holidays abroad are reminded that sufficient supplies of their regular medication should be taken with them. This follows a warning from the National Travel Health Network and Centre that patients in Pakistan took tablets from a contaminated batch of Isotab 20mg tablets, a cardiac drug containing isosorbide mononitrate. Adverse effects and deaths have been reported from patients who took the contaminated drug, which was found to contain traces of an antimalarial medication, pyrimethamine.

February 2012 NCSO and Price concessions.The NCSO Concession has been granted for the month of February 2012 for the following products:Betahistine…

Pharmacy Voice has published a ‘landscape’ document, which maps the rapid evolution of health service structures in England.

Asthma UK launched this month the Triple A: Avoid Asthma Attacks Campaign. The campaign will be running until early May.

How a methadone breakage is dealt with depends on the circumstances of the spillage. No clear guidance exists and so, where one exists, the pharmacy Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) must be followed.

Payment requests are being sent from a company called Slom Solutions to pharmacies for inclusion in their database. Pharmacies are not obliged to make any payments to this company, which is a business catalogue of company details.

The Quit Kit campaign 2012 was launched at the beginning of the year and has been going really well. PSNC has been working with the Quit Kit Team on this…

Levothyroxine tablets 100mcg manufactured by Teva have had their marketing authorisation (MA) suspended. This suspension prevents further production and distribution of the product although the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has told the Information Department that the product can continue to be dispensed.

Levothyroxine tablets 100mcg manufactured by Teva have had their marketing authorisation (MA) suspended. This suspension prevents further production and distribution of the product although the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has told the Information Department that the product can continue to be dispensed.

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