Archive for Medication updates

Members’ Service The DHSC has updated Concession prices for May (30th).  Dispex members can login to our website to see the updates all together in one place, and in alphabetical...

Source: Department of Health and Social Care 29.5.24 New regulations restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones to children and young people under 18. The Government has today introduced regulations to restrict the...

Source: MHRA / Gov.uk 22.5.24 Fresenius Kabi Limited have informed the MHRA of a packaging error with specific batches of Sodium Chloride Intravenous Infusion 0.9% Freeflex and Freeflex PLUS. MDR...

Dispex is pleased to provide its members with a SOP template library: All Templates MUST be personalised to individual practices. Scope HRT Prescription Sorting  p14 This SOP applies specifically to...

Drug Supply Page Dispex provides primary care focused updates on drug supply issues. Data is taken from the SPS website on a weekly basis. 5 Resolved 2 discontinued Dispex members can...

Source: MHRA / Gov.uk 15.5.24 Doncaster Pharma Limited have identified an error relating to the Braille printed on the cartons on various parallel imported packs which have been repackaged by...

Category A products are generics which do not meet the threshold volumes to be included in Category M. From April 2024 and for the next 18 months, Category A prices,...

Drug Supply Page Dispex provides primary care focused updates on drug supply issues. Data is taken from the SPS website on a weekly basis. 3 new Unavailable 3 new Resolved Dispex...

Source: MHRA /Gov.uk 23.4.24 (Cheplapharm – Canadian Livery), EL(24)A/14: Neon Healthcare Ltd is recalling the specific batch mentioned in this notification as a precautionary measure. MDR number MDR 191-04/24 Company...

Source: MHRA/Gov.uk 23.4.24 Risk of Early Revision, DSI/2024/005 The MHRA was alerted by Beyond Compliance and the UK National Joint Registry (NJR) to a significantly higher revision rate observed with...

From March 1st 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 first list of Retrospective Top Up payments has been published in the April Drug Tariff. Every quarter, a retrospective top-up payment to the concessionary prices granted three quarters before...