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Responsible Person for Wholesaling – MHRA
If you're applying for a new Wholesale Distribution Authorisation - WDA(H) - you will need to have a Responsible Person or RP registered to the Authorisation. This person needs to be approved and registered by the MHRA. As a new wholesaler you can choose to nominate...
What constitutes a “bona fide”?
Adjective: Genuine; real. Adverb: Without intention to deceive. Noun: Good faith; absence of fraud It is a crazy world, in the last year I have been asked during training ….what is a bona fides? How do you check a suppliers bona fides? We go into great detail...
Providing evidence to NHS England for Internet Pharmacy
So you've decide to apply to open an internet pharmacy and you've read the application form and it seems simple enough. I mean people send you prescriptions in the mail or via ETP2, you dispense and you send it out via mail or courier. It's not a hard prospect to...
IT – Cloud solutions for storage and management of clinical data, Quality Systems and SOPs
What do you do with your old SOPs? Do you have space to store them in your office? Do you archive them? Do you have staff who work from home or in other countries? Do you save them digitally or in paper form? I am old enough to remember “Punch Cards “and “Microfiche”...
“Special Measures “- The NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) – Monitor-CQC
What are special measures and how do NHS TDA Monitor and CQC work together? What will happen when NHS TDA and Monitor place a trust in “Special measures”? CQC, through their chief inspector may recommend that a Trust is placed in special measures if they have evidence...
2014 GPhC Inspections – are you prepared?
It seems 2014 will be the year of GPhC inspections for many pharmacies across the UK. Many of you may have impending inspections with many more to follow. We've had a number of pharmacists contact us recently about the inspection process, what to expect and what...
Opening a Pharmacy in 2014
So you want to open a pharmacy? To be your own boss. Do you know which location you would like? Which rule will you apply under? Have you read the relevant PNA? And what does it say? An NHS contracted pharmacy cannot simply be opened; you have to apply. And you have...
Changing landscape of UK Community Pharmacy
Following on from news of the Co-Op's decision to sell of its 750 pharmacies, Chemist & Druggist reported that a private consortium has raised approximately £40 m of the targeted £60 m required to commence their negotiations with the group. Whilst the group has an...
Falsified Medicines
As advisors to medicine wholesalers and pharmacies, we concern ourselves with maintaining the integrity of the supply chain. We stress the importance of being wary of falsified medicines and the pitfalls to look out for. Why is this product so cheap? Why is such a...
Validation of Cool/Cold Chain GDP Requirements – a common sense approach
One of the main changes seen in the recently issued European Commission Guidelines on Good Distribution Practices for medicines for human use (2013/C 343/01) is the emphasis on validating the entire supply chain to ensure that products that are temperature sensitive...
An Audit – a disruption or a useful tool?
There you are, a Team Leader/Manager, with a full workload for the day, deadlines to meet, goods to get out the door, orders to process, sales to make and you get a notification of an audit! Either internal or external, they appear to get in the way of what you need...
Why do Medical Devices fail ?
Devices fail for many reasons, the problem is becoming ever more serious and new guidelines are imminent to try to reduce the failure rate and number of recalls we are currently experiencing. Below re just a few things that may lead to a medical device failures...