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Current list of products facing export ban due to national shortages

An initial 23 products were listed on October 4, with more added and removed since. All the products are at “high risk of parallel export”, due to...

05/12/2019 1

Demand and packaging issues behind MMR jab and misoprostol export ban

Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines, pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPVs), alogliptin with metformin and misoprostol were added to the...

08/11/2019 1

DH: MMR vaccines and alogliptin with metformin cannot leave UK

Wholesalers are also restricted from exporting pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPVs) and misoprostol – which is commonly used in the induction...

05/11/2019 3

"I didn't start my pharmacy career thinking I was going to become a CEO, so I'm quite proud of that”

Former Well CEO: How to survive the pharmacy funding 'doom loop'

After his years as chief executive of the UK’s third-largest community pharmacy chain – in both its Co-operative Pharmacy and Well guises – it’s fair...

01/11/2019 5

DH extends shortage protocol for fluoxetine 30mg and 40mg to November

The SSP for fluoxetine 40mg capsules has been extended to November 11, while the protocol for fluoxetine 30mg capsules will continue until November...

30/10/2019 0

DH: There is now sufficient stock of fluoxetine 10mg, as well as 20mg

DH withdraws shortage protocol for fluoxetine 10mg

Sufficient stocks of the 10mg strength are “now available to meet normal demand”, and from 11:55pm on Friday (October 25) they “must be prescribed...

24/10/2019 3

Ranitidine joins a growing list of medicines facing export restrictions

Ranitidine and norethisterone among medicines that cannot leave UK

Wholesalers are also restricted from exporting alprostadil and QVAR (beclometasone dipropionate) from today (October 18), the DH announced. They...

18/10/2019 4

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Whitworth's Richard Bradley: I doorstepped Matt Hancock (pictured) in the House of Commons (credit: Parliament)

There'll be no one left to deliver services, pharmacist warns Hancock

Richard Bradley, co-owner of Whitworth Chemists, told C+D he “doorstepped” Mr Hancock on his way to a meeting in the House of Commons last month, to...

12/07/2019 12