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Validation of your Logistics Supply Chain?
Do you validate your logistics supply chain currently? If you buy from, or supply to, countries where temperatures are extreme how do you know that your products have been stored and transported within the recomended temperatures required by GDP and the MA for the...
Are you a Broker? Are you registered yet ?
A broker does not wholesale medicines however they facilitate the sale or purchase and negotiations between their clients. Do you ever buy or sell through a Broker? Is your Broker registered ? From next year the new EU GDP guidelines will be updated and your broker...
Technical Agreements (TAs)? Time to review them ?
When did you last review your Technical Agreements with your suppliers, your logistics companies and your customers? Do they clearly define each parties responsibilities? Are there any unclear areas? Do they cover all eventualities? In the TAs with your logistics...
Enhansing your brand with colour
Are you considering re-branding your website ? Or are you just starting to think about your website?
UK Health Radio, are you a media star?
The UK health radio, www.ukhealthradio.com, has launched a new look website and its online health magazine “Health Triangle” it can be viewed via their website. The website has a retail shop to showcase health and wellness products. Why not market your vitamins and ...
Pharmacies without WDL who are wholesaling medicines must beware!
A recent case brought by a pharmacy chain with a WDL challenged whether or not the Regulations allow for organisations operating both as registered pharmacies and licensed wholesale dealers can obtain medicinal products from other pharmacies which themselves do not...
RP training for unscheduled MHRA inspections?
The MHRA has written to all WDL holders to clarify the position following a recent case brought against the MHRA where the judge ruled that the law prohibits the purchase of medicines from pharmacies that do not have WDLs by pharmacies with the WDLs. All other...
“P” pharmacy medicaton on self selection?
The GPhC has stated that until at least October 2013, blanket prohibition on self-selection of "P" medication is still in place by them. Those of you who have chosen to flout this regulation may come unstuck. Has self-selection increased your sales of these products ?...
Registered Pharmacy Standards issued by the GPhC?
The GPhC have published guidance to Superintendent Pharmacist and Pharmacy owners with regards to Registered Pharmacy Standards. The purpose of these standards is to create and maintain safe environments for the effective practice of pharmacy. The responsibility to...
First aid kits, medicines and GDP compliant logistics?
Do you supply first aid kits ? Do you know how they are stored? Do you know where they are stored? Pharmacy consulting were asked to look at first aid kits on a private jet a few months ago. They were shocked to find that although the dressings were all in date , the...
Local Pharmaceutical Services Contract (LPS)?
Would you like to submit a tender for a LPS? Has there been a gap in pharmaceutical services shown up in your Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA)?It may be that the GPs are opening longer hours and the pharmacies locally do not stay open until they close? Or some...
Which robot would you choose?
Pharmacy Consulting has just come back from the Pharmacy Show. We were very impressed by the fantastic robots on display, each year the stands get bigger and bigger. ARX , who have captured the market so far with nearly 300 installed in the UK alone , had their new...