by Ryan Watts | Jan 27, 2015 | Quality Systems
Instead of monitoring the signs around us of quality failure, such as the worrying observation that since the early 1990’s the number of product recalls reported by consumer product safety commissioners around the world has increased by almost 5 times, let us turn...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 23, 2015 | Business
One of the most common non-conformities that I see when auditing against the GDP Guidelines (or, in a previous life as an ISO auditor) is the lack of documented management when it comes to change. Of course businesses need to be flexible and move within quickly...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 20, 2015 | GPhC
Pharmacy is a highly regulated profession and occasionally pharmacists may face prosecution. Prosecuting pharmacists for dispensing errors has always been a rare case. The 2009 Elizabeth Lee case with a suspended 3-month prison sentence shook the confidence of...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 20, 2015 | Pharmacist
Hospital pharmacy is a very competitive sector, if you look back ten years or so, most hospitals had pharmacists on the ‘shop floor’ undertaking traditional dispensing tasks, making it relatively easy for a retail pharmacist to switch between community pharmacy and...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 20, 2015 | MHRA
On the 8th January, 2015 the MHRA issued a press release relating to the closing down of websites that are offering falsified and unlicensed medicines. As Contract RPs, we work tirelessly to ensure that our clients do not, inadvertently, purchase or supply falsified...
