by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
** 2014 UPDATE ** Reading through the old blog material we have posted and I noticed the following article from the previous owner of the business about planning consent. Despite the original blog being dated in 2011 the issues remains as pertinent today as it was...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 6, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
With the introduction of the New Medicines Service (NMS) last week, the Government have demonstrated their belief that it is worth paying pharmacists to personally interact on a structured basis with patients who are newly prescribed medicines in 4 defined clinical...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 5, 2011 | Blog
Now that the Government have confirmed that the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is to survive the other cuts to be made to the NHS programme for IT, it is definitely time for pharmacists to get ready for and start using EPS. If you are not fully ready for EPS...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Between 2000 and 2009, the number of items dispensed to patients in community pharmacies increased by almost 70%, and the average number of items dispensed per head of population increased from 11.2 to 17.8. These figures suggest that the average pharmacy is storing...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
The reasons given for the present consultation on GDP across Europe are: that it has been a long time since European GDP had been reviewed and that the situation regarding Counterfeit medicines needs to be reviewed. Reason 1. Ok, it has been a long time and a review...