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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...
BAWP British Association of Pharmacy Wholesalers Conference
Martin Sawyer opened the conference and was keen to let the Government know that they should have chosen the existing medicine wholesalers to manage their anti-viral stock , which would have saved them writing off £74 million pounds worth of stock. UK Medicine...
Validation of your supply chain, have you done it yet?
The clock is ticking and September is looming, have you validated your supply chain yet? If you hold a Wholesale Dealers Licence you will be asked to evidence that your supply chain for both ambient and cold chain are compliant with good distribution practice. We,...
Pulse wave analysis in adults and children, would this be a service you would consider in your pharmacy practice?
Pulse wave analysis (PWA) is a non-invasive, valid, reliable and widely used technique to investigate central blood pressure and arterial stiffness. It has been shown by many studies to produce valid reliable results to assess the vascular health of adults and...