Transport in comfort

Throughout many inspections, medicinal product transportation is a must not to be missed topic. High attention is payed on its risk assessment, temperature and route validation by the inspectors. Not enough to have a well detailed SOP if the most important steps are...

Revised ISO 9001

The world’s leading quality management standard –ISO 9001- has recently been revised.. The new ISO 9100:2015 QS Standards just got published. It is less prescriptive, focusing on the importance of the process approach with risk-based thinking and employing the...

Unlicensed Medicines

The use of licensed medicines maximises patient safety while minimising liability, but there are occasions when an unlicensed or off-label medicine is prescribed and dispensed. High attention payed to (ULM) Unlicensed Medicines in the UK. Recently £1 million worth of...

Your Prescription: Your choice

All patients have the right to choose where they get their medicines from. NHS England are launching a campaign to promote this message. This comes in response to some pharmacists and GP’s seeking to inappropriately influence which pharmacies dispense a patient’s...

Prophylactic paracetamol

Are you aware that from 1 September 2015, England, Scotland and Wales became the first countries in the world to offer babies a vaccine against meningitis and septicaemia caused by meningococcal B infection as part of a national immunisation programme? This has led to...

Validation, qualification and calibration

Validation, qualification and calibration are not just one-off activities. They must be carried out on an on-going basis if a facility’s development, operation and maintenance are going to continue to meet all regulatory requirements. Validation involves the...