The Category M prices for April 2021 have been announced on the NHS Prescription Services website which can be found here. This quarter the price changes have been announced later than usual. What to look out for? The top ten price drops can be seen below: Drug Name Pack size Change Liothyronine 20microgram tablets 28 […]
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Drug Tariff Price Update March 2021
Drug Tariff News – March Part VIIIA reimbursement prices (issued 19 March) The Department of Health and Social Care has agreed the March Drug Tariff Part VIIIA reimbursement prices for the following items: Chlorpromazine 50mg tablets 28 £19.95Ciprofloxacin 500mg tablets 10 £3.11Duloxetine 30mg gastro-resistant capsules 28 £1.82Duloxetine 60mg gastro-resistant capsules 28 £3.18Enalapril 10mg tablets 28 £5.99Eplerenone 25mg tablets […]
Profitable Dispensing Tips #1 – Modified Release Brands
The clinical decision must always come first, the patient must receive treatment according to their clinical need and prescribing decisions always need to be based on clinical need. In my experience of working with dispensing doctors for over twenty five years, it is generally accepted that for patients on a modified release medicine, continuity of […]
March 2021 Drug Tariff Further Update
March is generally a quieter month for Tariff activity, prior to the start of April. 1st April is the start of the new financial quarter and there will be Category M price changes. This can be seen a few weeks in advance via this link: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/drug-tariff/drug-tariff-part-viii If you or someone in your team has time, […]
Generic Profitability – Part One
A large volume of your dispensed items in a dispensing practice will be your everyday generic items. Most dispensary managers will have a good idea of what those are, and they will be ordered regularly. Most of these will have a low Drug Tariff price, and the margin gained dispensing them will be relatively low […]
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 […]
