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Dear Colleague
Please find correspondence (LETTER and BULLETIN) from Kathryn Turner, Pharmacy Lead, HSCB. 

SUMMARY

  • The Medicines Use Review (MUR) Service was introduced in 2013, since then over 185,000 MURs have been undertaken in our community pharmacies.
  • The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine evaluated the service, and the report can be found HERE.
  • The service will not be commissioned in the same format moving forward. However, a pathfinder medicine discharge service pilot will be established in the North-West of the province in the autumn of this year in advance of planned roll-out across all pharmacies on 2022/23.

ACTION

  • Contractors are asked to review the correspondence.
  • For further queries please contact your local pharmacy adviser or CPNI.

Kind regards

SENT ON BEHALF OF
GERARD GREENE
Chief Executive

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

BSO ALERTS

CPNI ALERTS 

HSCB ALERTS 

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

Or report medicine shortages or pricing issues via the CPNI’s Medicine Shortage Reporter.

Kind regards

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

Dear Colleague

The following concessionary prices have been granted for July 2021:

DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Baclofen 10mg tablets84£3.30
Loratadine 5mg/5ml oral solution100ml£7.75
Mebeverine 135mg tablets100£4.40
Pregabalin 100mg capsules84£5.42
Tolbutamide 500mg tablets28£16.79
Trimethoprim 50mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free100ml£11.94
Ursodeoxycholic acid 250mg capsules60£11.98

This is the second update of concessionary prices for July 2021.

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

Concessionary prices may be granted up until the end of the month so CPNI will notify you of any further concessionary prices as and when they are agreed.

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

Dear Colleague
The following concessionary prices have been granted for July 2021:
DrugPack SizeConcessionary Price
Eplerenone 25mg tablets28£11.95
Eplerenone 50mg tablets28£15.53
Etoricoxib 60mg tablets28£6.00
Etoricoxib 90mg tablets28£8.35
Naftidrofuryl 100mg capsules84£7.84
Olmesartan medoxomil 20mg tablets28£6.44
Olmesartan medoxomil 40mg tablets28£10.35
Pregabalin 75mg capsules56£4.18
Sodium fluoride 0.05% mouthwash sugar free250ml£1.74
Sulfasalazine 500mg gastro-resistant tablets112£17.52
Sulfasalazine 500mg tablets112£16.50

This is the first update of concessionary prices for July 2021.

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

Concessionary prices may be granted up until the end of the month so CPNI will notify you of any further concessionary prices as and when they are agreed.

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 

  • Weekly Drug Alerts are available here.MPS 2793 – Medicines Notification – Tetralysal 300mg hard capsules 6 July 2021
  • Weekly Shortages Information is available here.
  • Serious Shortage Protocols are available here.

CPNI ALERTS 

HSCB ALERTS 

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

Pharmacy team(s) can keep updated via CPNI’s

Or report medicine shortages or pricing issues via the CPNI’s

Kind regards

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

Dear Colleague
Please find correspondence HERE for the attention of all Community Pharmacies offering Living Well service, from HSCB Pharmacy & Medicines Management.

SUMMARY

  • The last campaign of 2020/2021, How are you feeling?, finished on 31 May 2021.
  • Pharmacies offering Living Well are required to complete an online evaluation survey for this campaign.
  • It is vital that all pharmacies contracted to provide “Living Well” submit their evaluation survey as it allows HSCB to collate data to demonstrate the value and impact of the service to other sectors. Additionally, it supports future commissioning and service development. 
  • The HSCB monitors compliance with the service requirements, in particular evaluation submission. Should your pharmacy fail to submit an evaluation survey response, the HSCB reserves the right to recover all, or part of, this funding via an adjustment to the pharmacy’s BSO payment account.

ACTION

  • Contractors are asked to review the correspondence.
  • Pharmacies offering Living Well service are required to complete an evaluation survey, available HERE by 19 July 2021.
  • If you have already completed this, you do not need to do anything further. 

Kind regards

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