Drug Tariff Changes Acebutolol 400mg tablets Generic back available – at what price though? Previously the reimbursement price was based on a brand NHS list price – check your stock levels of the brand and look at the purchase price of generic acebutolol 400mg tablets x 28. If your purchase price is ABOVE the Drug […]
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Drug Tariff Changes July 2022
Drug Tariff Advance Notice of Changes for July 2022 The image below shows the upcoming changes to various products in Part VIIIA from July 1st 2022. For generic prescriptions for felodipine modified release tablets the reimbursement will presumably drop from the current price based on Plendil to the lower-priced Cardioplen XL price. Keep an eye […]
Drug Tariff Alert – April 2022
Every month I read the Drug Tariff preface and have done for most of the past 25 years, Ok its not War and Peace and its not for all, but for dispensing contractors, and most especially for dispensing doctors it really is a must read. It gives an indication of what is happening in the […]
Are You Missing a Trick With Branded Dispensing?
The Drug Tariff in England and Wales [there are separate Drug Tariffs for Scotland and Northern Ireland] lists most medicines which can be prescribed and dispensed against an NHS Prescription in Primary Care. The reimbursement price is stated next to the generic descriptor for the product in pence. This means that where the prescription has […]