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Lord Howe launches Healthcare UK in Dubai.
A joint initiative between the Department of Health, NHS Commissioning Board and UK Trade & Investment, Healthcare UK will help international customers from both the public and private sectors access the UK’s healthcare expertise and aims to boost the value of the...
Ken Jarrold to Chair The Board looking at rebalancing Medicine Legislation and Pharmacy Regulation.
Lord Howe welcomed the appointment of Ken Jarrold as chair. The new Board which will be looking at re-balancing the medicines legislation and pharmacy regulation to ensure that they are in tune and still fit for purpose. The pharmacy standards, services and...
LogTag Temperature Recorders to Map your warehouse or Validate your Logistics courriers.
LogTag temperature recorders ( Data Loggers) are excellent for mapping , monitoring or helping you validate your Logistics couriers. They are the cost effective solution. If you would like more information or training on how to use these data loggers or the software...
New Pharmacy Consulting course “Stress management in the workplace?
On average, one in three community pharmacists are so stressed at work that patient care is becoming compromised. High dispensing volumes combined with paperwork and other workplace burdens have resulted in many pharmacists feeling that they are unable to deliver the...
Innovative treatment for childhood eczema?
Childhood eczema is the most common inflammatory skin disease and affects around 20% of children in the United Kingdom. Atopic eczema cannot be cured, but there are many ways of controlling it. The current NICE guidance on atopic eczema in children outlines that the...
Responsible Person Training in London on the 16th of January!
Pharmacy Consulting will be running its next Responsible Person Training (RP) course on the 16th of January. There are a couple of spaces left . First come first served! If you have to have a WDL as a result of recent changes in the regulations , this course will...
Audit or raise a CAPA?
What would you do, raise a CAPA or conduct an Audit ? If your Contract Warehouse has a couple of deviations from storage GDP requirements in quick sucession, and you have not audited them in a whil,e would you raise a CAPA or audit them? Pharmacy Consulting was asked...
100 hour Contracts for Sale?
** April 2014 UPDATE ** So whilst Pharmacy Consulting remains available to assist in assessing 100 hour contracts available on the marketplace, the number of available contracts are diminishing. As time goes on and these previously exempt contracts becoming rarer,...
Manufacturers, Importers and Distributers are targeted by The Falsified Medicines Directive 2011/62/EU
Do you “Manufacture, Import or Distribute”, “Active Substances” currently in the UK? You should have received an mail from the MHRA regarding Falsified Medicines Directive 2011/62/EU. Registration with the MHRA is compulsory and has to be completed before the 2nd of...
“Retail” and “Wholesale” transactions must be separate!
The MHRA expects pharmacies with WDLs to keep their pharmacy stock and their wholesale stock completely separate and that the “Retail “and “Wholesale” transactions are fully documented and separate. If the pharmacy chooses to export any medicines in short supply in...
Is your Pharmacy wholesale dealing without a WDL?
If your pharmacy is wholesale dealing medicines for human use you may be potentially contributing to UK shortages and be in breach of both supply chain obligations and GPhC standards of conduct. http://www.pharmacyregulation.org/ The Department of Health has issued...
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment identified a need and still no contract was granted.
Pharmacy Consulting recently had a client who had had his 100 Contract Application put on hold because the PCT wanted to tender an out of hour’s contract to all contractors in the area. My client took the PCT to court and won his case. Pharmacy Consulting then...