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Market Entry applications to NHS England
Pharmacy Consulting have had a recent increase in the number of calls made to our offices about pharmacy contracts and the potential to: Obtain a new pharmacy contract Relocate an existing contract Apply to alter core trading hours Apply for an exempt Distance Selling...
UK health system vs the world
Of course everyone has their own opinion of the health system here in the United Kingdom and where it could be improved, what else should be funded and where the system lets its patients down. Almost all of us take an idealistic view where healthcare to the public...
Your HR Policy – Zero-Hours contracts
We recently debated the concept of zero hour employment contracts in the workplace and thought it may be time to do some further research. On a very quick search, we have found that the use of zero hour contracts is growing fast and tends to be favoured by large...
Online Auction – Processing, Packaging & Facility Support Equipment
www.equipnet.com is an online auction house offering for sale used manufacturing equipment. The December 12 auction includes over 200 items of processing, packaging and facility support equipment. In this case, the equipment was originally used by Bayer and other...
Community Pharmacy – Premises Inspection
Pharmacies will now be inspected against the Standards for Registered Premises, published in September 2012. http://www.pharmacyregulation.org/sites/default/files/Standards%20for%20registered%20pharmacies%20September%202012.pdf The purpose of these standards is to...
2014 PPRS
2014 PPRS - An Overview The Department of Health has stated: “The new scheme will provide assurance on almost all of the branded medicines bill for the NHS. The bill will stay flat over the next two years and will grow slowly after that. The industry will make...
PPRS – 2014 – Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
PPRS - It has arrived and will be in place for 5 years from the first of January 2014! What are the overarching principals? The aim is to have deliver a single holistic , UK pricing agreement that underpins the pricing of branded medicines to the NHS . It is the...
Just a thought and a reality check !
Having been through a few MHRA inspections in the last few weeks and having watched the desperation, devastation and destruction caused by the typhoon in the Philippines this week my thoughts ran to............. Are we so worried about the ambient temperature of a...
Twitter and Tweets
Do you tweet ? Do your customers tweet ? Would you consider tweeting ? What do you think about it ? I have asked many pharmacist and most do not tweet and often feel it is not professional and would not tweet to try to drive customers to their pharmacy. I might have...
Have you just started your pharmacy business ? Have you had it for years ?Do you know your bottom line?
How many of you are so busy doing your day to day job that you are blissfully unaware of your bottom line? What do you clear after all your costs on a daily basis ? What should you charge per hour if you were asked to carry out some work for somebody else? We are so...
Know your Inspector-Do your homework-Be inspection ready at all times!
Hear me out on this one .......if you have not met your inspector take time to check him out. Google him and look on the MHRA website to see what he may have presented at a MHRA conference for example. Does he come from an auditing background? Is she a...
“RP” Responsible Person Training
New Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines ( 2013/C 68/01) require Responsible Persons (RP) to be trained and to keep " Up to date". They require RPs to ensure that all their staff have a good understanding of the current GDP guidelines and are competent to...