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Contracts and TAs are they legal?
When setting out to prepare a contract with a customer or supplier or a Contract RP etc., it is useful to consider and include the following points. It is always sensible to have a written contract to ensure it is legally binding and the contract should contain an...
GP and Pharmacist Colaboration
Collaborative working will help your pharmacy survive the rocky road ahead and is the key to better patient outcomes and effective medicine management. To ensure a relationship will blossom it requires a breakdown in silo working, good communication and indeed...
Tutela Temperature Monitoring?
Who do you use currently to monitor your warehouse and your goods in transit? Is the system validated?Have you validated them yourself?Have you validated your logistics supplier? Pharmacy consulting has been asked by two inspectors in the past couple of months to...
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...