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On line information on medicines
A Research company (Manhattan Research) have just published the results of a survey of just over 3000 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain who were already interested in on-line health information, about their attitudes to on-line information on...
New Medicines Service -parallel in Holland
If progress in Holland is anything to go by, the the NMS here in England should do well. This is because for several years already, Dutch pharmacists speak with all patients who are prescribed a new medicine, on the presentation at the pharmacy of the first two...
Concordance with medicine taking
At last with the introduction of the New Medicines Service (NMS) the Department of Health have shown confidence ion pharmacist's ability to add value for patients prescribed a new medicine in 4 important therapeutic areas. It is to be hoped that most community...
How the UK pharmacy and healthcare system compares with other European Countries
I want to thank you again for your successful presentation made in London to our Pharma Group Europe conference. Your detailed explanations for all the delegates were extremely interesting and enlightening. Our international participants from Germany, Austria,...
Wholesale dealers licenses – EU Consultation
As I have mentioned before the EU are currently consulting on updating the Good Distribution Practice guidelines across Europe. Having attended an MHRA training day in London recently, it is evident to me that there are a several areas where Wholesale Dealers and...
100 Hour pharmacies and the future
So we now have a consultation paper from the DOH which, if enacted as written sometime after Jan 25th 2012, will sound the end of further 100 hour pharmacies being granted permission to open. It is not yet clear for how long 100 hour applications will continue to be...
Improving patient adherence
We have all heard the statistics many times concerning the high proportion of patients who for whatever reason do not follow a prescribed treatment regime, even though they have taken time out to attend an appointment with their GP, and clearly most patients who visit...
Opening a new pharmacy – have you got planning consent?
** 2014 UPDATE ** Reading through the old blog material we have posted and I noticed the following article from the previous owner of the business about planning consent. Despite the original blog being dated in 2011 the issues remains as pertinent today as it was...
Improving patient adherence
With the introduction of the New Medicines Service (NMS) last week, the Government have demonstrated their belief that it is worth paying pharmacists to personally interact on a structured basis with patients who are newly prescribed medicines in 4 defined clinical...
Using the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
Now that the Government have confirmed that the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is to survive the other cuts to be made to the NHS programme for IT, it is definitely time for pharmacists to get ready for and start using EPS. If you are not fully ready for EPS...
Pharmacy automation
Between 2000 and 2009, the number of items dispensed to patients in community pharmacies increased by almost 70%, and the average number of items dispensed per head of population increased from 11.2 to 17.8. These figures suggest that the average pharmacy is storing...
EU commission Consultation on GDP – Counterfeits
The reasons given for the present consultation on GDP across Europe are: that it has been a long time since European GDP had been reviewed and that the situation regarding Counterfeit medicines needs to be reviewed. Reason 1. Ok, it has been a long time and a review...