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Contract Responsible Person (RP)
Are you interested in wholesale dealing? Are you applying to the MHRA? As part of your application for a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation - WDA(H) - you will need to list a Responsible Person or RP on your license. This person will need to be granted RP status by...
Risk Management – are you managing your risk?
Over the recent years we have seen a move towards risk based quality systems with risk being emphasised much more in the new Guidelines for Good Distribution Practices. But what does this mean to you and how do you put it into practice? The thing with risk management...
Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2014
Pharmacy Consulting Managing Director Jackie Peck has recently registered to attend the Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2014 held in Boston, June 16-19, 2014. The organisers have put together the Press Release below for any readers of this blog who may be...
Are you taking on a premises lease?
Taking on a new premises to run your business is not simply a cost but rather an investment. It is just one of the inputs required for you to do business yet it can and will dictate how your business evolves. Choosing the right premises is a big decision and...
Cool Chain Supply System and Solutions 2014
Pharmacy Consulting Limited (PCL) will be presenting at The 3rd Cool Chain Supply System and Solutions 2014 (19–21 March) in Zaventem, Belgium. The symposium will address GDP inspection readiness and the lack of the global regulatory standardisation. Senior GDP and...
Pharmacists can do it all!
Volume 292/7800 of The Pharmaceutical Journal published on March 8, 2014 has a very interesting article about a young member of the Great Britain women's curling team who won a bronze medal at the recent Winter Olympics in Russia. The significance of this being that...
Wholesale Dealer’s License becomes a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation
Previously, once inspected by a Competent Authority and found to be compliant to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) you would be issued with a Wholesale Dealer’s License (WDL). This has now been replaced by a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (Human) (WDA(H)). What’s...
What is a Self-Inspection or Internal Audit?
If you hold a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (previously Wholesale Dealer’s Licence) you must have a programme in place for self-inspections. Self-Inspections/Internal Audits are intended to be a tool that enables companies to check their own activities,...
Do you need a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (previously WDL)?
As part of the new regulations that came into effect last year, a number of companies have needed to review their business model and apply to the MHRA for a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (previously Wholesale Dealer's License or WDL). There are some...
The Danger of Template SOPs
In an older post I talked about how Pharmacy Consulting can help you write and review Standard Operating Procedures for your business. We often get asked by our clients to provide them with template SOPs. This question is always met with the response “We don’t do...
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and You
In our line of business, we spend a considerable amount of our time reading, creating, reviewing, maintaining and updating the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of many types of businesses. These SOPs will form part of a company's Quality System (QS) and provide a...
Calling all Pharmacy Owners or potential New Owners
Calling all Pharmacy owners, or potential new owners- are you stuck in your ways? Are you planning for future pharmacies or to carry on regardless? Do you listen to your customers? When did you last look at your business plan and really question it? Where do your...