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Wholesale Dealers Licenses – importing from outside the EEA
It is quite widely appreciated that the manufacture of many prescription medicines, particularly generics, is done outside the EEA and that most large generic companies have factories in lower cost production countries. What is less well recognised is the regulatory...
Wholesale dealers license holders -Regulatory support
**** 2014 UPDATE ****Wholesale Distribution Authorisation holders – Regulatory Support So you've made it to this page and here is our 2014 update. We often receive enquiries regarding the type of authorisation or licence required from the MHRA to trade in medicines...
Pharmacy Contract applications – what if one opens near you?
I have been asked more than once what a pharmacist can do once an exempt category pharmacy contract, usually a 100 hour contract, is awarded nearby. Clearly the situation always varies somewhat from pharmacy to pharmacy, particularly depending upon the mix of NHS and...
Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
Whilst we have been promised electronic Prescription transfer between surgery and pharmacy for several years, it really does look as though we may get the so called "Release 2" soon. Many (but not all) Pharmacy PMR providers already have so called "Clinical Authority...
Medicines Management – New Medicines service
The New Medicines Service (NMS) to be launched by October 2011 will give Pharma companies a potential opportunity to gain a more detailed insight into patients decisions about taking their newly prescribed medicines, particularly if they choose to work with...
Pharmacy suppliers entering the UK market
At the 2010 Pharmacy Show, about 6 small French health and beauty suppliers wishing to enter the UK market for the first time, took an area of stands together in order to attract interest either from distributors or from pharmacies directly. It is clearly quite...
Public Speaking In France
I am pleased to have been invited by the organisers of the French Annual Conference for pharmacists held in Paris to join in a debate, at the February 2012 Conference, concerning the importance to customers of the branding of pharmacies according to their membership...
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....