Things We Take for Granted

The saying goes ‘you learn something new every day’ and it’s also true that this can happen at the strangest time and in the weirdest place. An example would in the Gents at a 50th birthday party late one Saturday night! I am sure all possibilities spring to mind but...

Falsified Medicines Directive & Delegated Regulation

Big news of the week of course is the publishing of the Delegated Regulation that supplements the Falsified Medicines Directive and enables the industry to take the next steps in protecting the public against the menace of falsified medicines. There will be much...

When Europe acts as one but isn’t joined up.

For pretty much the whole of the last six months the team at PCL have been trying to make headway with certain issues thrown up by the EU Guidelines on GDP for Medicinal Products for Human Use (5th Nov 2013). On face value it is hugely helpful that there are common...

Customers?

‘Who is our customer?’ sounds like a silly question. Someone walks into my pharmacy presenting a prescription, it’s obvious isn’t it? Well yes and no, if the prescription is for that person then they certainly are a customer, but if the person is the patient’s...