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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 This has now been replaced by a Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (Human) (WDA(H)).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...
Be Quick and Register Now ….. if you work in or run a QC lab…….
The MHRA has released ten more places for their “The Quality of Medicines –Future Evolution “on the 9th of April at Westminster Abbey. This conference will address GMP requirements for GMP QC laboratories and it will also present tools for an efficient and effective...
wholesalemedstore.com
For all those medicines wholesalers wherever you are in the world, Pharmacy Consulting have an exciting opportunity for you to purchase the domain name wholesalemedstore.com. You may be looking to expand your reach, realise a global potential or simply be looking for...
Blood Pressure monitoring APPs
BP monitoring APPs help GPs confirm patients with high BP problems more quickly and in the comfort of their own home. Patients presenting with a blood pressure in clinic of 140/90 would require ambulatory or home based monitoring of two reading, at least a minute...