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Have you had a NHS England Contact Monitoring Inspection yet? The Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework questionnaire for 2016/2017 is available on the PSNC website. If your pharmacy is based in England, then remember to complete it as soon as possible. The results...

Have you got a WDA, are you approved to Export medicines? Have you been inspected since the new GDP guidelines were launched? If your customers collect and use “Ex-works” Incoterms this does not relinquish your responsibilities as a wholesaler. The MHRA will ask for...

Is your pharmacy under threat? Do you have a consultation room? Would you consider renting it out to a travel health practitioner? Or would you like to be trained to deliver the service yourself under PDGs? To find out more contact [email protected]. Written...

The integrated tissue-organ printer (ITOP), is described in a paper published in the journal Nature Biotechnology by researchers from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina. ITOP prints a 3D biodegradable plastic structure onto...

Scientists have released results of trials using a patient's own immune cells to treat leukaemia, and they may have made a major breakthrough! It is very early days and the side effects are severe however The patients had previously failed all other treatments. Cancer...

Budapest has become our new location for GDP/RP training. Europe is a leader in personalised medicine therefore GDP is mandatory for all wholesalers. Our one-day training provides an introduction to Good Distribution Practices (GDP) for the pharmaceutical industry and...

Due to our continuing success in running Good Distribution Practice Training courses, Pharmacy Consulting Ltd happy to announce that will be carry out GDP/RP and Audit training in Scotland and widening its wings out to Hungary as well in 2016. Come and join us in our...

Are you a Pharmacy looking to wholesale, a manufacturer looking to distribute medical products, or an organisation that is looking to further your employees training requirements?  PCL can help. Due to our continuing success in running Good Distribution Practice...

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...

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...

Zika is carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is found in tropical Africa and parts of South America. This mosquito is known to also carry yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya viruses. One to two million people are thought to be infected by the Zika virus...

After months of careful planning, bespoke training, and looking at the needs of both business travellers, holiday makers and gap year students we have launched our travel clinic in Farnborough. Pharmacies are well placed to give the advice, however the appointments...