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Dear Colleague
The final update of concessionary prices were granted today for July 2024:
DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Apixaban 2.5mg tablets56£3.89
Apixaban 5mg tablets56£3.74
Benzoyl peroxide 5% / Clindamycin 1% gel30£11.88
Brimonidine 0.2% eye drops5£4.03
Calcipotriol 0.005% /
Betamethasone dipropionate 0.05% gel

60£19.05
Captopril 25mg tablets56£2.50
Captopril 50mg tablets56£3.83
Chlorphenamine 2mg/5ml oral solution sugar free150£2.91
Cinacalcet 30mg tablets28£8.99
Clomipramine 50mg capsules28£7.99
Co-amoxiclav 250mg/62mg/5ml
oral suspension sugar free		100£2.55
Co-tenidone 50mg/12.5mg tablets28£6.73
Dorzolamide 20mg/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye drops5£6.07
Erythromycin 40mg/ml / Zinc acetate 12mg/ml lotion30£18.50
Ethosuximide 250mg capsules56£167.04
Etoricoxib 30mg tablets28£4.40
Etoricoxib 60mg tablets28£8.15
Flucloxacillin 250mg/5ml oral solution sugar free100£4.19
Fluticasone 400microgram/unit dose nasal drops30£16.81
Fluticasone furoate 27.5micrograms/dose nasal spray120£15.85
Fusidic acid 2% cream15£2.30
Haloperidol 1.5mg tablets28£5.66
Haloperidol 5mg tablets28£4.98
Itraconazole 100mg capsules15£8.42
Labetalol 100mg tablets56£4.37
Lamotrigine 100mg tablets56£3.34
Lamotrigine 200mg tablets56£4.99
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml /
Timolol 5mg/ml eye drops		2.5£5.19
Memantine 10mg/ml oral solution sugar free50£29.91
Metformin 1g / Sitagliptin 50mg tablets56£13.33
Mometasone 0.1% cream30£3.52
Morphine sulfate 10mg/ml solution for injection ampoules10£5.98
Mycophenolate mofetil 500mg tablets50£5.66
Naproxen 250mg gastro-resistant tablets56£2.50
Nebivolol 2.5mg tablets28£9.28
Nefopam 30mg tablets90£3.73
Ondansetron 4mg tablets10£3.30
Oxcarbazepine 600mg tablets50£34.06
Oxybutynin 2.5mg/5ml oral solution sugar free150£182.25
Oxycodone 10mg/ml solution for injection ampoules5£7.77
Perindopril erbumine 2mg tablets30£2.55
Perindopril erbumine 4mg tablets30£3.25
Perindopril erbumine 8mg tablets30£7.98
Pregabalin 225mg capsules56£2.85
Pregabalin 25mg capsules56£1.51
Propantheline bromide 15mg tablets112£104.29
Pyridostigmine bromide 60mg tablets200£17.95
Quetiapine 200mg tablets60£35.27
Quetiapine 25mg tablets60£6.40
Quinagolide 50microgram tablets and
Quinagolide 25microgram tablets		6£39.20
Quinine sulfate 200mg tablets28£6.42
Quinine sulfate 300mg tablets28£2.95
Rasagiline 1mg tablets28£24.95
Rizatriptan 10mg tablets3£8.60
Ropinirole 2mg tablets28£28.90
Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vials20£18.78
Salbutamol 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vials20£20.03
Sertraline 100mg tablets28£1.78
Sertraline 50mg tablets28£1.53
Sevelamer 800mg tablets180£29.00
Sodium chloride 0.9% nebuliser liquid 2.5ml unit dose
ampoules		20£9.50
Sodium cromoglicate 2% eye drops13.5£3.61
Tacrolimus 0.1% ointment60£47.28
Tamoxifen 20mg tablets30£4.01
Telmisartan 80mg tablets28£15.81
Terbinafine 250mg tablets14£9.65
Trospium chloride 20mg tablets60£12.69
Venlafaxine 75mg modified-release tablets30£2.79
Zonisamide 100mg capsules56£30.96
Zonisamide 50mg capsules56£23.00

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 Medicine Shortage Reporter.

Concessionary prices are also published on the CPNI website.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
Dear Contractor
To enable CPNI to represent the community pharmacy sector in the planning underway to introduce the regulation and registration of technicians in Northern Ireland, CPNI is asking all pharmacy contractors to complete our 2024 Community Pharmacy Technician Workforce Survey.  The closing date for the survey has been extended to Friday 9 August 2024.

To assist contractors, CPNI has developed an 18 minute recorded presentation which provides the background to technician registration, the work carried out to date, the purpose of the CPNI survey and some important points to consider when providing your responses.

SUMMARY

  • The CPNI Community Pharmacy Survey is available here.
  • The CPNI recorded presentation is available here.
  • A copy of the presentation slides is available here.
  • Background information on the pharmacy technician regulation and development project is available on the DoH website here.
  • The DoH 2020 pharmacy workforce survey report is available here.
  • The CPNI 2019 pharmacy workforce report is available here.

ACTION

Contractors are asked to:

Please note that it is important that Contractors complete this survey as the findings will be crucial for CPNI in advocating for equitable resourcing to support the technician workforce in the community sector, as required to sustain the community pharmacy workforce going forward.

Should you have any queries, please contact a member of the team or email your query to Ennis.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

This update contains important information for community pharmacy teams.

CPNI ALERTS 

 DOH(NI) ALERTS 

 BSO ALERTS 

 MHRA ALERTS 

Epimax Ointment and Epimax Paraffin-Free Ointment: reports of ocular surface toxicity and ocular chemical injury 23 July 2024
 

Medication Safety Conference 

SPPG has advised CPNI that the Irish Medication Safety Network (IMSN) in collaboration with HSC/Transforming Medication Safety Northern Ireland (TMSNI) will host the first All-island Medication Safety Conference in the Printworks, Dublin Castle on 29th November 2024. Community pharmacists who wish to attend can Register online from 01 August 2024.

Health professionals, including community pharmacists, are invited to showcase some of the medication safety initiatives they have been involved in, by submitting an abstract for presentation at the conference. If this is an area of interest to you or your pharmacy team you may wish to contact the TMSNI team by emailing medicine.safety@hscni.net, or alternatively contact Clare or Ennis at CPNI for further support and guidance.

Foundation Training Applications now Open

NICPLD has advised CPNI that applications are now open for the Post-Registration Foundation Training programme (starting September 2024).  Applications for both FP1 and FP2 can be accessed via the below links, when pharmacists are logged in to their NICPLD account:

https://www.nicpld.org/courses/postreg-fp/application/fp1.asp
https://www.nicpld.org/courses/postreg-fp/application/fp2.asp

Pharmacy team(s) can keep updated via CPNI’s Contractor Calendar and Contractor Emails.

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

Please bring this to the attention of your pharmacy team(s).

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
Gerard Greene
Chief Executive
Dear Contractor,
CPNI is asking those pharmacies involved in rota service to complete this data collection form.

Please return the form via email to the CPNI office   (info@communitypharmacyni.co.uk) each time you complete a rota session.

CPNI will use the information gathered to help inform rota services going forward.
 
Your assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
Dear Contractor,
As you will be aware, CPNI have been liaising with SPPG on rota provision across Northern Ireland. As part of the review, we are looking at the funding for providing the rota service. SPPG have asked CPNI to gather evidence to support their funding bids. If you are involved in rota, CPNI is asking that you complete this SURVEY by 5pm on Friday 9th August.
 
Any information you provide will only be shared with SPPG in a collated way so that no contractor would be identifiable.
 
Please do not hesitate to contact the CPNI office if you require any further information.

Yours sincerely,

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive
Dear Contractor
To enable CPNI to represent the community pharmacy sector in the planning underway to introduce the regulation and registration of technicians in Northern Ireland, CPNI is asking all pharmacy contractors to complete our 2024 Community Pharmacy Technician Workforce Survey.  The closing date for the survey has been extended to Friday 9 August 2024.

To assist contractors, CPNI has developed an 18 minute recorded presentation which provides the background to technician registration, the work carried out to date, the purpose of the CPNI survey and some important points to consider when providing your responses.

SUMMARY

  • The CPNI Community Pharmacy Survey is available here.
  • The CPNI recorded presentation is available here.
  • A copy of the presentation slides is available here.
  • Background information on the pharmacy technician regulation and development project is available on the DoH website here.
  • The DoH 2020 pharmacy workforce survey report is available here.
  • The CPNI 2019 pharmacy workforce report is available here.

ACTION

Contractors are asked to:

Please note that it is important that Contractors complete this survey as the findings will be crucial for CPNI in advocating for equitable resourcing to support the technician workforce in the community sector, as required to sustain the community pharmacy workforce going forward.

Should you have any queries, please contact a member of the team or email your query to Ennis.

Kind regards 

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive