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Responsible Persons – Training & Qualifications
The MHRA have for some 2 years been advocating more formal training and more formal continuing professional development for Responsible Persons (RPs). The latest situation as I understand it is that the MHRA have put out to tender to training organisations, their...
Responsible Persons (RPs)
Smaller and brand new wholesale dealers in medicines are naturally unlikely to want to go to the expense of, or take the risk of employing a Responsible Person (RP) as an employee. The MHRA are therefore well used to encountering the use of so called contract RPs, who...
Exemptions to Control of Entry – Are PCTs using delaying tactics?
As PCTs cannot currently refuse exempt pharmacy contract applications, except when there are LPS services (Local Pharmaceutical services) being provided in the neighbourhood, they seem to be looking for alternative ways to ward off such applications. A customer of...
Pharmacy Shop Fitters – How to get the best results
Working with a Pharmacy shop fitter is not in principle all that different to working with builders and an Architect when designing a home. Unless the builders have detailed plans from the architect to work to, their job becomes more difficult AND less predictable. I...
Pharmacy data back up and restoring
Surprisingly the Information Governance guidelines and workbook do not make significant comments upon pharmacy data back-up, other than to guide pharmacists to ensure that any data taken away or sent away from a pharmacy is encrypted and also remains within the UK....
Exemptions to Control of Entry -when will they end?
It was widely expected that the exemptions to control of entry introduced in 2005 would cease on April 1st 2011, with the introduction of Pharmacy Needs Assessments (PNAs). At the last minute however the DOH decided not to implement PNAs and to temporarily leave the...
Exempt Pharmacy Contract Applications Defence?
Exempt pharmacy contract applications include the following types of pharmacies: 100 hours, Internet, One Stop and pharmacies in large Shopping Centres The above categories of contract application are by definition exempt from the normal requirement for an applicant...
Wholesale dealing of medicines – what can pharmacies do?
Partly as a result of the shortage of some branded medicines in the UK, the MHRA have tightened up their stance on pharmacies trading in medicines. A monthly list of products in UK short supply is published by PSNC, often containing towards 100 medicines each month....
Pan-European Pharmacy – differences between community pharmacy practice in the UK and in France
The most significant differences that you would notice if you set foot into a French pharmacy would be: A typical French pharmacy sells very little other than medicines and a few baby products, and indeed most medicines in France can only be bought from a Pharmacy and...