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Further 15 concessionary prices agreed for October

by Grace Lewis29/10/20182 commentsNews

The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Assembly for Wales have agreed concessionary prices for the following 15 items for October 2018 prescriptions.

An initial nine concessionary prices for October were announced last week.

Drug
Strength
Form
Price
Brimonidine
0.2%
eye drops (5)
£3.17
Diamorphine
10mg
powder for solution for injection ampoules (5)
£15.47
Hydroxocobalamin
1mg/1ml
solution for injection ampoules (5)
£9.50
Latanoprost
50 micrograms/ml
eye drops (2.5)
£9.50
Levetiracetam
100mg/ml
sugar-free oral solution (300)
£27.30
Metronidazole
400mg
tablets (21)
£7.00
Naproxen
500mg
tablets (28)
£5.00
Nicorandil
10mg
tablets (60)
£3.39
Propranolol
10mg
tablets (28)
£3.07
Propranolol
40mg
tablets (28)
£2.72
Propranolol
80mg
tablets (56)
£5.00
Ramipril
10mg
tablets (28)
£5.00
Tadalafil
5mg
tablets (28)
£28.50
Topiramate
50mg
tablets (60)
£9.38
Valsartan
40mg
capsules (28)
£5.15
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Clinical
concessionary prices
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2 Comments
Question: 
Do these prices reflect what you have paid in October so far?

janet maynard, Community pharmacist

Posted on Mon, 29/10/2018 - 14:42

We were paying over £5.00 for naproxena and still no mention of quetiapine 25mg!

A B, Community pharmacist

Posted on Mon, 29/10/2018 - 15:37

Out of interest do you use the psnc generic price reporting tool? I always tell people to use it as much as they can because it gives the PSNC more data to get better price concessions (in theory anyway).

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