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Wholesale Dealers Licenses
When the UK adopts an EU wide directive on July 12th 2012, community pharmacies will no longer be able to rely upon the former understanding that they can trade up to 5% of their medicines turnover without holding a Wholesale Dealers Licence (WDL). The MHRA have made...
Text messages can improve compliance
A recent article in PME has confirmed that patients who elect to receive compliance support messages via text on average improved their compliance levels to prescribed medication by around 10% compared to similar patients who did not elect to receive such text...
Medicines Management -Managing heart medication
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) are calling upon pharmacists to support a current campaign to help patients manage their heart medication better. The campaign is called "just like that" and is to be fronted by the face of comedian Tommy Cooper who died of a heart...
Minor relocations
Even when your minor relocation is approved by your Local PCT your probelms may not be over. A client of mine had received, as expected, PCT approval to relocate his pharmacy from what had over the years become a very secondary shopping street, about 400m to a new...
Pharmacies in Health Centres
According to the C&D, as many as 20% of pharmacists could be considering moving their business into a health centre over the next 5 years based upon a survey by Lloyds TSB. Pharmacy Consulting Ltd (PCL) have been involved in various projects in which pharmacies...
Improving pharmacy profitability
The impact of expected Category M clawbacks, plus the inevitable increase in a myriad of other financial pressures in a recessionary environment is likely to lead to the further eroding profit margins this year particularly for independent pharmacies.With all the...
European marketing authorisations
According to PMLive, from last month, European applications for human medicines marketing authorizations can be made on-line via the EMA eSubmission gateway, following a successful 4 month pilot period. This should speed up the processing of marketing applications The...
Wholesale dealing with pharmacies
From 12th July 2102, the UK is adopting an EU directive which will effectively close the loophole that has previously allowed pharmacies to conduct up to 5% of their trade commercially without holding a wholesale dealers license. Those wholesale exporters in...
Wholesale Dealing by pharmacies
From July 12th 2012, the UK will be adopting and implementing EU guidance which will effectively remove the exemption which has for years allowed pharmacies to conduct up to 5% of their medicines turnover as wholesale trade, without the possession of a wholesale...
Patient Adherence -What can Pharma do?
For Pharma companies, adherence or lack of it, is undoubtedly a very major stumbling block to brand development and brand success. Many types of initiative have been tried over the years, to try to improve patients adherence to prescribed therapy, with mixed results....
MHRA inspections -most common deficiencies
80% of all deficiencies found by MHRA inspectors during inspections of wholesale dealers of medicines premises concerned just 3 subject categories : * Temperature Conditions * Quality Management Systems (QMS) * Documentation With temperature conditions, the most...
Replacing a closing pharmacy
I was recently approached by a young pharmacist who had become aware that one branch of a national multiple was to be closed down in a location where the multiple had 2 branches. The pharmacist had secured suitable premises from which to run a replacement pharmacy for...