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Funding for Genomics England to reduce by £40m under 2019/2020 DHSC spending plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has put forward plans to reduce its funding to Genomics England by £40m in 2019/2020 as the body receives a new funding model to match its latest target to sequence five million genomes in five years.
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Half of hospital trusts to refer to community pharmacy by 2020
Half of hospital trusts in England are expected to be able to refer newly discharged patients to community pharmacy for help with taking their medicines by 2020.
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Opioid overdose deaths 'rising sharply' in England and Wales, OECD says
Deaths from opioid overdose are “rising sharply” in England and Wales as part of a continuing global crisis, according to an analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Pharmacies verify 4,000 prescription exemptions in real-time checking pilot
Nearly 4,000 prescription charge exemptions have been verified through the first stage of NHS Digital’s real-time exemption checking pilot scheme.
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Warnings on 'diet' drug must go further, RPS says
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has welcomed moves to highlight the potential lethal risks of the fertiliser 2,4 dinitrophenol that is used in some diet pills, but says they do not go far enough and reiterated its call for it to be banned.
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Pharmacy negotiators say centralised system for specials procurement could 'drive down quality'
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has warned against the government’s suggestion that a centralised system is the “desired future approach” to procuring specials.
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NHS patients owe £246m in unpaid penalties for prescription charge exemption errors
NHS patients have accrued a total debt of £246m in unpaid penalty fees for incorrectly claiming free NHS prescriptions, the National Audit Office has said.
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NHS England cannabis access review to speak with families paying £40k for private prescriptions
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Medical Cannabis under Prescription has said it has put forward 22 families to speak with NHS England as part of its “rapid processes evaluation” of NHS medical cannabis prescribing.
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Pharmacists 'unqualified' to follow government drug-switching protocols, say legal campaigners
A legal campaign group has said pharmacists are “unqualified” to dispense alternative medicines during shortages in line with a government-issued protocol.
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Government delays consultation with pharmaceutical industry over generics price limiting powers
A government consultation with the pharmaceutical industry over plans to use new powers to limit the price of generic medicines has been delayed until later in 2019, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.
