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£8.60, too much?
Controversial from the start, prescription charges were introduced in 1952, abolished in 1965 and then reintroduced in 1968 with a system of exemptions that persists in modified form today. The charge itself has risen from 20p in 1979 to the current price of £8.60 per...
Is your pharmacy secure?
If you wholesale you will be familiar with the MHRA, asking you for the contract with your alarm company and asking you how often the alarm is tested. How you prevent unauthorised access into your warehouse. Why does GPhC not ask similar questions about your Pharmacy?...
CQC – Do you need to register your pharmacy services?
Pharmacy is exempt, I here you say, well in the past we were, but as we start to develop new services this is often not the case. If a pharmacy starts to provide services such as “Treatment of disease and disorder or injury “as defined in schedule 1 of the Health and...
Can we speed up drug regulators without affecting patient safety?
The US Food and Drug Administration gets drugs to the market faster than other major regulators but it is still too slow. Can approvals be achieved quicker without affecting patient safety? Companies can take years to submit their...
Temperature mapping
Autumn is knocking on our doorstep. Winter temperature mapping will be essential soon. Need help with mapping your warehouse or your fleet? Experienced in many years of quality control we can provide you 2 or 3 point calibrated data loggers (hire or purchase) and help...
Have you had your refresher GDP training?
When did you have your last GDP training? Check your training folder. Make sure you and your staff are GDP competent. Should you have your or your staff annual refresher GDP training as guidelines changing and we can provide you up-to-date information on latest...
Can we speed up drug Administration without affecting patient safety?
Analyses have shown the US Food and Drug Administration gets drugs to the market faster than other major regulators but it is still too slow. Can approvals be achieved quicker without affecting patient safety? Some companies took years to submit their...
EXPORTERS BEWARE
If you Export from the UK, have you kept up with the current requirements of GDP? Do you know what the MHRA will expect of you at your next inspection? Do you do the following: Use “EXW” Incoterms? Do you check if the products your customer has collected have been...
Stop taking Antibiotics when you feel better not at the end of the course?
Changes often bring surprises and they need to be risk assessed. This new guidance is in direct conflict with what I have told patients for the thirty years that I have been qualified. When I first qualified the message was pre-printed on labels which we religiously...
QOFXIT are QOFs days numbered
Cries for “QOFXIT” are being heard from the Government and BMA in the same way as people called for Brexit. There is of course a lot of people who would agree, but it would be good to see as full risk assessment of the pros and cons if we have a QOFXIT and a detailed...
Dermal fillers may become Prescription Only – What do you think ?
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics recommends that dermal fillers become prescription only. This would mean that they would not be able to be advertised in line with other prescription only medicines. Currently many prescribers order their fillers on prescription,...
Clean Backups, Robust Firewalls, Patch Updates, tightly managed passwords, and access privileges, do you have all of these?
The MHRA have been issuing majors to pharmaceutical wholesalers for several years if they do not have a backup procedure and there is no evidence of it being tested. Loss of data may result in a critical finding if it cannot be produced during an inspection. Why do...