by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
Smaller and brand new wholesale dealers in medicines are naturally unlikely to want to go to the expense of, or take the risk of employing a Responsible Person (RP) as an employee. The MHRA are therefore well used to encountering the use of so called contract RPs, who...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
As PCTs cannot currently refuse exempt pharmacy contract applications, except when there are LPS services (Local Pharmaceutical services) being provided in the neighbourhood, they seem to be looking for alternative ways to ward off such applications. A customer of...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Working with a Pharmacy shop fitter is not in principle all that different to working with builders and an Architect when designing a home. Unless the builders have detailed plans from the architect to work to, their job becomes more difficult AND less predictable. I...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Surprisingly the Information Governance guidelines and workbook do not make significant comments upon pharmacy data back-up, other than to guide pharmacists to ensure that any data taken away or sent away from a pharmacy is encrypted and also remains within the UK....
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
It was widely expected that the exemptions to control of entry introduced in 2005 would cease on April 1st 2011, with the introduction of Pharmacy Needs Assessments (PNAs). At the last minute however the DOH decided not to implement PNAs and to temporarily leave the...
