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Are you ready to be an Authorised Wholesale Distributor (WDA- holder)
All the wholesale distributors acting in the EU must maintain a quality setting out of responsibility, processes and risk management relating with their business following the last reviewed guidelines. The new Guidelines of 5 November 2013 on Good Distribution...
Are you ready for the new CQC Fundamental Standards?
The new care regulations – called the fundamental standards – will take effect from April, and so it is important that providers across the country know the sorts of things that they can do to make sure they are meeting them and also, how the CQC will use their new...
Don’t bury your head in the sand- check your supplier bona fides!!!
A man has been given a 4 month prison sentence at Southwark Crown Court, suspended for 2 years, for the sale and supply of unlicensed erectile dysfunction drug! If you sell illegal unlicensed medicines you are endangering public health and the MHRA will actively seek...
Would your business benefit from applying a lean process?
What is lean management? Lean management is a long term approach applied to a business systematically implementing small changes in the current processes to improve efficiency and quality and reduce the wastage. The result of which is to maximise customer value whilst...
When is more, less? – Standard Operating Procedures
During the course of our work we see many SOPs and often come across procedures that are difficult to read and do not clearly describe the procedure. A long SOP does not necessarily make it a good one! When writing an SOP it is worth thinking about what its purpose is...
Flu service success!
Almost 90% of Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) have reported having a local pharmacy flu vaccination scheme commissioned during the 2014/15 season. This shows that NHS teams are beginning to understand the value that community pharmacy flu vaccination services...
Now or never?
Having spent over twenty years writing plans for the future and pointing out what is under-utilised the pharmacy world has been very slow in influencing, in a significant manner, the commissioning and implementation of this alternative world. Many models are still...
Disaster continuity plan, what to expect in unforeseen circumstances?
With snow on our door step have you got a contingency plan? Do you ship your products via airplane? Is it going to be delayed? How remote is your warehouse or pharmacy? Can your team get to work in the event of extreme weather conditions? Are you able to maintain the...
CQC ‘Outstanding’ for Frimley Park Hospital
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals recently awarded their first ‘Outstanding’ rating to Frimley Park Hospital. The hospital’s chief executive, Andrew Morris, remarked on “the emphasis on team working and cooperation across specialities” as major influencers in...
GPs, How Do You Rate?
The CQC have recently published 75 reports on the quality of care provided by GP practices that have been inspected under the new approach and 60 of those have been found to be good or outstanding which means that 15 have been found to be requiring improvement or in...
Display of your CQC rating
From 1 April 2015 providers will have a legal requirement to display their Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating in their premises and online through their website. The CQC are providing guidance to suppliers on how they should display their rating. They also plan to...
Robot & Automation Is this the Technology that You Need to Improve your Business?
You’re probably not old enough to remember Tomorrow’s World, a BBC science program featuring all the up and coming tech, a bit like a 1st generation Gadget Show. Anyway in the 80’s they spent a lot of time predicting how the world would look in the next Millenium, it...