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Exemptions to Control of Entry – Are PCTs using delaying tactics?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

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

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

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

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

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?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

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?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

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?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

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....
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