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Business Advice for your Pharmacy ?
Where do you go if you need some advice regarding buying or new service development? You might want to borrow to invest in new technology or benchmark yourself against other pharmacies? Pharmacy Consulting can help you with many of your requirements and can signpost...
Quality & Professionalism & Whistleblowing ?
It is a wet Saturday morning and I am having a coffee and reading the headlines in my Pharmaceutical Journal , I have stumbled on the article "Warning for pharmacist guilty of motoring offences " The young man had been rather heavy with his right foot on several...
Join the stakeholder panel and help the RPS develop a resource to improve quality systems in pharmacy
Come on all you pharmacists and technicians , this is a great chance for you to really help the RPS to improve the quality resources for pharmacy and help other time pressed pharmacists to improve their standards and systems in their practice. I help pharmacy...
Dispensing Robots –Help to balance Quality with Productivity
Whilst many of us fondly remember the white coat, mortar and pestle days of pharmacy gone by, these memories are quite distant from the reality of today’s Community Pharmacy. We all know, or at least should know, that pharmacy profitability is not what it once was;...
Are you attending the Pharmacy Show?
This year’s Pharmacy Show is being held at the NEC Birmingham over the 29th and 30th of September. For this year’s attendees, you will have the opportunity to attend Jackie Peck’s presentation on: ‘New ideas to optimise your dispensing process’ which is scheduled for...
WL RPs and Quality managers need to adapt to a volatile, complex and austere new world
How can RPs and Quality managers adapt to the ever more complicated, and convoluted supply chain? The continual need to drive down costs while improving the quality of service and protecting product quality. An ever more volatile and complex market is evolving...
Quality Management System (QMS) for Wholesalers of medicines ( WL & WDL)
WL and WDL holders have to have a QMS or QRS in place by September of this year, many are finalising their SOPs as we speak . PCL would like to offer some basic tips and hints: Keep it simple, use as little jargon as possible , do not see the QMS SOPs as a...
Temperature excursions, Help !
While most of Europe is enjoying the heat wave , manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacist and RP should be living in fear and in- trepidation , how high is the temperature in our ambient storage areas going to go ? What can we do when the air conditioning is just...
How will our Pharmacy practice cope with the new falsified medicine directive?
The new falsified medicine directive aims to stem the rise in counterfeit medicines in the supply chain and in addition enable swift recalls of medicines to patient level , if required. Current practices of snipping two tables off 30 pack tablets when the...
Gold Standard of Good Distribution is to be relaunched in the Autumn
The BAPW 's Gold Standard of Good Distribution has been under review by their RP committee and they pride themselves on leading on quality standards and in some cases the proposes changes will go beyond what will be mandated by Law. The new standards will ensure...
Contract funding to be settled by this autumn
Contact funding is to be settled this Autumn, Sue Sharp announced at the BAPW conference last week, although she would not comment on the exact details but she was keen to say that the NHS has no more money. There is not going to me lots more money and their...
Patient Service Obligation to help prevent medicine shortages
A public service obligation has been proposed for pharmacists, wholesalers and manufacturers to sign up to, ensuring patients needs are put first to help to combat the time wasting required to ensure continuity of supply and mitigate the risk to patient safety...