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Are your Wholesale Suppliers Compliant?
Since the issue of the current EU Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice (GDP) of medicines for human use, we have been asked by several distributors to review their quality system against the Guidelines. The most common gap, that we see, relates to qualification of...
Pharmacy Involvement in the Drug Driving Campaign
The Department of Transport is calling all pharmacies to support the new Drug Driving Campaign coming into force March 2015. The new offence has been introduced to combat the irresponsible few who continue to abuse drugs and risk the lives of themselves and others by...
New essential Orange and Green Guides 2015 – out now!
Are you involved in the manufacturing or the distribution of medicinal products? Have you bought your Orange or Green Guide yet? The 2015 edition has been released on general sale. The guides are produced by the MHRA to provide the rules and guidance for your pharma...
Buying Medicines – have you done your homework? Who are you buying from?
Last year the MHRA closed over 1600 websites that were illegally advertising and selling medicines. The medicines in question were deemed falsified, counterfeit or unlicensed in nature. As well as seizing falsified medicines with a value of over £3 million. The safety...
Diabeties early detection – Pharmacist must get involved
Pharmacists must back NHS England’s plans for a national diabetes prevention programme, this is an area where pharmacy can add value and have an opportunity engage with their customers and patients effect a change in behaviour and work with other healthcare providers...
Electronic Prescription Service “EPS” are you claiming for all the items your dispense?
Sainsbury’s in Tunbridge topped the list by not claiming for 1864 prescriptions they dispensed by way of EPS in 2014. Their pharmacy staff are to be retrained as a corrective action. But this is only half the story, there are many root causes but fundamentally the...
Crisis in A&E
A&E is in crisis with targets being missed, 111 is fielding many calls but will always err on the side of caution and send the patient to A&E if they are in any doubt. GPs appointments are hard to get and often GPs little or no time to properly read patients...
Drone Deliveries: The Future of Flexible Logistics?
One may think that deliveries of medicines by drones are the stuff of futuristic dreams but DHL has recently launched the next phase of the research project which entails the delivery of all the types of emergency medicines (except those requiring refrigeration) by...
What do you think about POM to P switches How much power does it give to the patient??
The UK is a leader in switches, after New Zealand, but first in Europe. We had the first Statin in the world and the first emergency hormonal contraceptive (Levonelle) available over the counter. In the last century there were double digit switches of...
The Human Medicine Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1916)
The regulations came into force on the 14th of August 2012 and still some pharmacies are wholesaling without a WDA(H) and many are still not aware of the removal of some and the addition of other exemptions to supply. We have been told over the past few months of...
The MHRA Portal
The Government launched a new “ Digital by Default Standard“ and the aim of the criteria is to ensure that the digital services are of a consistently high quality, that they are secure, safe easily improved and meet the needs of the service user. When the digital...
What is Meta-analysis?
Meta-analysis is a statistical procedure that integrates the results of several independent studies considered to be “combinable “. It is a way of structuring the process through which a thorough review of previous research is carried out. It should be free from bias...