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Quality Payment Scheme, Quality Points do mean prizes for Pharmacy in the future!
Quality Payments can be claimed at the end of April 2017 and again at the end of November 2017. The April payments will be made at the end of June, beginning of July. Do you meet the criteria? First steps are as follows: You must offer at least one advanced service...
Establishment payments will start their free fall in December of this year and will eventually be discontinued.
Mr Mowat laid out the plans in the House of Commons today and he insisted the government "appreciates the value" of the pharmacy sector. But he stressed the current system does not do enough to "promote efficiency or quality". The plan is that...
Repeat dispensing to be taken from Pharmacy
What are the hidden costs to scrapping a pharmacy repeat dispensing service? There will pressure on the overstretched surgery staff! Trying to get through on the phone to a surgery now is bad enough but if every person who forgets to put his repeat slip in on time to...
Establishment Payments will be a thing of the past!
Is your pharmacy at risk by the proposed funding cuts? Can you survive a proposed 12% funding cut? Have you looked at your figures? The C +D have reported a leaked government document which suggests that only 1,380 pharmacy sites out of 11,674 in England will...
Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Care Quality Commission aims to maximise patient outcomes by optimising the effectiveness and safety of medicine use in registered service providers registered providers. The aim of CQC when it comes to medicine management is getting the best treatment possible for...
What do you think your role is as a pharmacist?
Are you customer-facing empathetic and focussed on “Dispensing, Responding to Symptoms and Service Development? Or do you want to be the triage for doctors and nurses, their front line in the surgery? Some pharmacists are best placed where medicines are developed,...
Brexit – Unforeseen consequences 2
I might be an old cynic but I fear that both the challenges and the opportunities presented by Brexit will lead more people to consider what I am going to call ‘more creative business practices’. To misquote a colleague’s favourite saying, “there are two things...
Brexit – Unforeseen consequences 1
With the Pound in freefall, I am sure we have all done a quick calculation to try to second guess how it will affect us. The most obvious is the cost of holidaying abroad; next summer’s trip to France will cost considerably more in terms of travel and accommodation...
Responsible Person is not the only person who has responsibilities…
The European GDP Guideline of 5 November 2013 requires that wholesale distributors have to appoint a Responsible Person for GDP activity. Taking part of many inspections one of the key area the auditors looking is how the roles and responsibilities of key personnel...
What boundaries?
To what extent now, do we – when exporting – need to be aware of the local guidelines of those countries outside of the EEA we are shipping Pharmaceutical products to? It seemed to be a little more clear-cut before. We could find out if the recipient company was...
FAKEMEDs Campaign, Do you sell medicines online?
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have created a campaign to combat the selling of fake medicines online. More than half of the medicines sold online are fake or unlicensed. Common examples are erectile dysfunction medication, ‘smart...
Requirements of Herbal Registration
According to the Human Medicines Regulation (2012), a product is a herbal medicine if the active ingredients are herbal substances and or herbal preparations only. A herbal preparation is when herbal substances are put through specific processes, which include:...