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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...
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...