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A future for Community Pharmacy
It is an interesting landscape for the industry right now. The smaller strip pharmacy is becoming an endangered species as the larger retail driven pharmacies continue to evolve. We know in our own dealings as the customer that we continually expect more for less. ...
Is mobile technology going to help deliver QIPP size savings?
Just as Pharmacy is catching up with relatively old robotic technology for their dispensaries and ditching tablet counters. Blue-tooth wireless mobile technology has advanced, and has been incorporated into miniature integrated medical devices.For example...
Temperature mapping and monitoring this Summer
How did your warehouse cope this summer? Were you one of the many companies whose QA Department and Responsible People (RPs) were tearing their hair out responding to the alarms? We have had continual warm sunny days for nearly two months and while children have...
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...