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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:...
Calling all pharmacies… do you know what is required of you in relation to consent?
As a provider of professional services, you must obtain consent for all the services you provide and the patient information you use. What is consent? Simply put consent is agreement or granting permission.Patients have a right to decide on their own healthcare, this...
Openness and Transparency: wherefore art’ thou!
Since the start of the 80’s (that is from what I have been reading and has nothing to do with my age!) society has been going through waves of changes. There has been a surge: an awakening of the spiritual mind and intuitive behaviour. We also live in an...