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Pharmacy Automation with ARX
I have been successfully working with ARX supporting various customers who have asked for additional support on with their first automation project, since 2010. There are testimonials from 2 such customers on my web site. Although ARX provide a design and...
Yet more on 100 Hour pharmacies
**** 2014 UPDATE **** So it's June 2014 and you're looking up 100 hour pharmacies. They were an exempt application and as such a reasonable avenue to pharmacy ownership however you've probably heard that this has now ceased. But they aren't over yet, there are still...
Restricted List medicines and exporting
Wholesale dealers of medicines may not see all the publications that community pharmacists receive, so they may be unaware that the problems that community pharmacists experience in obtaining certain medicines for prescriptions remains a significant problem. For that...
Good Distribution Practice deficiencies
One of the advantages of working with several companies and in different locations as a contract RP, is having the opportunity to work with a number of different MHRA GDP inspectors and to learn from them what matters are most important to them at premises licence...
Electronic Prescribing and dispensing (EPS)
With 2672 R2 enabled pharmacies and 57 R2 enabled doctors practices now ready to issue and dispense electronic prescriptions, it really does look like this long awaited development could really be nationally implemented this year. (Figures at 14th December 2011) The...
Community pharmacy contracts and PNAs
Now that the consultation period on the proposed change of pharmacy contract applications to the new Pharmacy Needs Assessments (PNA's) basis has passed, we must all wait to see how much of the proposals will be implemented and when. Also, there is no clear statement...
Internet ONLY pharmacy?
**** 2014 UPDATE **** Reading this old blog, I cannot help but consider what a great concept this was. Unfortunately, it didn't work and ended in the worst possible way. Funnily enough, people still ask us how do they make internet pharmacies work or even do...
The Specific mechanism (Importing medicines from newer EU countries)
When 10 additional member states joined the EU in 2004, the Pharma Industry successfully pressed for and obtained the insertion of a "specific mechanism" in the Accession Treaty governing the entry of the new members states into the EU, concerning medicines exports...
Medicines adherence
Another new year, another new year for Pharma to grasp the opportunity to work more closely with pharmacy to develop adherence enhancing activities that benefit patients, Pharma and pharmacists, but will it begin to happen in 2012? Evidence suggest that the degree of...
Internet pharmacy
Now that the largest two GP prescribing software system suppliers have just recently been given national roll out authority for the Electronic Prescription System Release 2 (EPSR2), it seems reasonable to expect to see Electronic prescribing really get going this...
Electronic prescribing- EPS R2
After what feels like an eternity of waiting, the two largest GP software system providers now have national roll-out authority for their software, so the rate of deployment of EPS R2 by GPs is bound to increase over the coming months. Most pharmacy software...
100 Hour pharmacies – transitional arrangements
It looks likely that the current DOH consultation on control of entry will conclude that all exemptions except distance selling pharmacies will be removed. The closing date for comments and observations to be made on the consultation is 25th January 2012, after which...