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Processes you should be doing with your parcels!
There are many rules from the GDP guidelines that one has to follow when dispatching parcels containing pharmaceuticals but here are some additional ideas to help keep your products safe! When testing your packaging, do you ever think of doing ‘drop tests’? Being...
Hexoskin and Indegogo
They are not a new trendy band they are designers of new “Smart” clothing. Smart clothing when I was young was a suit you bought for weddings. Today it is likely to be a vest fitted with sensors that you will wear when you exercise to track your vital signs. The...
Unique Device Identifiers (UDIs)
Will unique device identifiers(UDIs) help to keep patients safe and allow the FDA and European Competent Authorities identify problems with devices faster or are they more use in insurance claims, details held in electronic health records, and device registries? It is...
Calling all pharmacies! Do you need a WDA?
Calling all pharmacies! Don’t get caught out! Are you supplying products on signed orders without a Wholesale Dealers Authorisation (WDA)? As per MHRA guidance (in Bold) and provided the ‘transactions’ meet all of the following criteria the MHRA will not deem such...
Should blood test be carried out on Practitioners before they deliver services in a clinic? How do we screen our staff at the recruitment stage?
If you have opened a clinic or are delivering services from your pharmacy, dentist or surgery and hired locums or permanent staff to work with your patients, would you consider screening them for any infectious diseases before they start work, or at regular intervals...
Zika advice for pregnant women issued by Public Health Engalnd (PHE) and NaTHNaC
Women who are pregnant or are trying to or planning to become pregnant should postpone their non – essential travel to areas where there is active transmission of Zika virus. This includes South and Central America and the Caribbean. [1,2]. This advice is given due to...
Ground Control
On our travels, we get to witness the dynamics within larger organisations. The chain of responsibilities and the delegations of tasks and duties. Without a doubt, the requirements to comply with the likes of the MHRA and ISO has brought about a stronger link and...
What is CPAF and Contract Monitoring?
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...
Do you plan to Export?
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...
Pharmacies under threat? Boost your revenue.
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...
Printers can now print body parts!
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...
Immunology helps cancer patients fight Leukaemia
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...