{"id":2021,"date":"2026-11-13T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:47:05","slug":"latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-13-november-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2026\/11\/13\/latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-13-november-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News from Hampshire LOC &#8211; 13 November 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CAS Alert: Tropicamide 1% Eye Drops Recall<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Important Medicines Alert for Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Primary Eyecare Services has highlighted a recent Central Alerting System (CAS) notification concerning Aspire Pharma Tropicamide 1% Eye Drops.<\/p>\n<p>Following a review, the alert is being shared widely with optometry practices and practitioners due to an issue affecting specific batches of the product. The affected batches have been labelled with an <strong>incorrect expiry date<\/strong>. The <strong>correct expiry date is 31 October 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Practices are advised to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check stock of Aspire Pharma Tropicamide 1% Eye Drops.<\/li>\n<li>Identify and quarantine any affected batches.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do not use<\/strong> affected stock.<\/li>\n<li>Contact your supplier to confirm their approved returns process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further details, including the affected batch numbers and recall information, are available via the Government medicines alert:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/drug-device-alerts\/class-3-medicines-recall-aspire-pharma-limited-tropicamide-1-percent-eye-drops-solution-in-single-dose-containers-20-x-0-dot-5ml-el-26-a-slash-47\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/drug-device-alerts\/class-3-medicines-recall-aspire-pharma-limited-tropicamide-1-percent-eye-drops-solution-in-single-dose-containers-20-x-0-dot-5ml-el-26-a-slash-47<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please ensure relevant clinical and practice teams are made aware of this recall and take appropriate action if affected stock is held<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAS Alert: Tropicamide 1% Eye Drops Recall Important Medicines Alert for Practices Primary Eyecare Services has highlighted a recent Central Alerting System (CAS) notification concerning Aspire Pharma Tropicamide 1% Eye Drops. Following a review, the alert is being shared widely with optometry practices and practitioners due to an issue affecting specific batches of the product. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2026\/11\/13\/latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-13-november-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest News from Hampshire LOC &#8211; 13 November 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}