This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams, including details of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BSO ALERTS

  • Weekly Drug Alerts are available here.
  • Weekly Shortages Information is available here.
  • Serious Shortage Protocols are available here.

CPNI ALERTS 

DOH(NI) ALERTS 

Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).
Pharmacy team(s) can keep updated via CPNI’s Contractor Calendar or Contractor Emails

Or report medicine shortages, pricing and staffing issues via the CPNI’s Medicine Shortage Reporter or Situation Reporter

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF 
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
The fourth update of concessionary prices were granted today for July 2022:
DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Alendronic Acid 70mg tablets4£12.83
Aripiprazole 10mg tablets28£5.00
Aripiprazole 15mg tablets28£1.15
Aripiprazole 5mg tablets28£1.03
Bimatoprost 100micrograms/ml eye drops3£3.55
Chlorpromazine 100mg tablets28£25.04
Chlorpromazine 25mg tablets28£25.07
Chlorpromazine 50mg tablets28£25.73
Citalopram 10mg tablets28£2.48
Citalopram 20mg tablets28£3.83
Clarithromycin 500mg tablets14£7.32
Clonidine 25microgram tablets112£12.34
Dipyridamole 100mg tablets84£23.23
Enalapril 5mg tablets28£3.08
Esomeprazole 20mg gastro-resistant tablets28£5.78
Esomeprazole 40mg gastro-resistant tablets28£5.35
Exemestane 25mg tablets30£14.86
Finasteride 5mg tablets28£1.53
Fluoxetine 40mg capsules30£2.85
Gabapentin 600mg tablets100£5.57
Glyceryl trinitrate 500microgram sublingual tablets100£4.94
Hydroxocobalamin 1mg/1ml solution for injection
ampoules
5£6.77
Ibandronic acid 50mg tablets28£89.37
Lercanidipine 10mg tablets28£3.53
Losartan 50mg / Hydrochlorothiazide 12.5mg tablets28£5.73
Mometasone 0.1% cream100£8.84
Mometasone 0.1% cream30£3.73
Mometasone 0.1% ointment30£3.99
Phenoxymethylpenicillin 250mg tablets28£1.63
Prasugrel 10mg tablets28£8.65
Prednisolone 5mg soluble tablets30£17.74
Promethazine hydrochloride 10mg tablets56£13.45
Risedronate sodium 35mg tablets4£1.76
Tetracycline 250mg tablets28£7.06
Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed.
Please continue to notify CPNI of any pricing issues you are experiencing via our new Medicine Shortage Reporter. Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist

*** FAO: BELFAST LCG AREA CONTRACTORS ONLY ***

Dear colleague

Please see below a request from Nicola Kenny at the BBC who is looking to speak to pharmacists living or working in Belfast about their experience of the pandemic and the effect that music had on them during this time.
Belfast City Council is hosting a concert in August to confer the Freedom of the City on all Belfast key workers for their contribution to the pandemic response. The concert will be filmed and broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland later in the autumn.

When the pandemic hit, key workers used their ingenuity and resilience to find ways to continue working and offer support to people through very difficult circumstances. In these challenging times we sometimes seek music, or it connects with us unknowingly or without reason. It may be a song heard on the radio on the way home in the car or an album you kept revisiting, just music that resonated with you during this time. Did a song help you overcome a challenge or connect you to loved ones?

BBC Northern Ireland are collating all the replies from key workers, and a small number of songs will be performed live with the Ulster Orchestra at the concert in August.

If you would like to be share your experience or would like more information, please email or text Nicola Kenny (nicola.kenny@bbc.co.uk 07915 072 048) with your name and contact details by Friday 29th of July 2022.

Kind Regards

JUDE AUSTIN | Communications Manager

Dear Colleague

The third update of concessionary prices were granted today for July 2022:

DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Flecainide 100mg tablets60£4.52
Fluoxetine 20mg capsules30£1.80
Ibuprofen 100mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free100£3.99
Lacidipine 2mg tablets28£2.95
Loratadine 5mg/5ml oral solution100£4.72
Rizatriptan 10mg tablets3£3.69
Tamsulosin 400microgram / Dutasteride 500microgram capsules30£3.90

Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed.

Please continue to notify CPNI of any pricing issues you are experiencing via our new Medicine Shortage Reporter.

Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist
This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams, including details of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BSO ALERTS

CPNI ALERTS 

DOH(NI) ALERTS 

Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).
Pharmacy team(s) can keep updated via CPNI’s Contractor Calendar and Contractor Emails.

Or report medicine shortages, pricing and staffing issues via the CPNI’s Medicine Shortage Reporter and Situation Reporter.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF 
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist
Dear Colleague
The second update of concessionary prices were granted today for July 2022:
DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Celecoxib 200mg capsules30£5.97
Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension70£5.00
Clotrimazole 500mg pessaries1£5.20
Cyclizine 50mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules5£6.16
Desloratadine 5mg tablets30£4.91
Flucloxacillin 500mg capsules28£2.34
Isotretinoin 20mg capsules30£15.00
Meloxicam 15mg tablets30£2.75
Memantine 20mg tablets28£1.45
Methocarbamol 750mg tablets100£13.45
Nebivolol 2.5mg tablets28£13.65
Olmesartan medoxomil 40mg tablets28£4.88
Rabeprazole 10mg gastro-resistant tablets28£4.43
Rabeprazole 20mg gastro-resistant tablets28£9.95
Rivastigmine 1.5mg capsules28£3.78
Rivastigmine 3mg capsules28£4.20
Telmisartan 20mg tablets28£4.82
Topiramate 25mg tablets60£2.45
Travoprost 40micrograms/ml / timolol 5mg/ml eye drops2.5£13.50
Trospium chloride 20mg tablets60£13.50
Valsartan 80mg capsules28£5.19
Concessionary prices will be paid against the usual code, no additional endorsements are needed.
Please continue to notify CPNI of any pricing issues you are experiencing via our new Medicine Shortage Reporter.

Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
DR. GARETH C. GILVARY
Governance & Support Pharmacist