Wishing your life away

It’s a conversation that been heard in most households I guess. Child: I can’t wait until Christmas              [even though it’s still only June] Parent: don’t wish your life away there’s so much to...

Why important to approve your supplier??

One of the most important aspects of wholesale distribution is maintaining the integrity of the supply chain and preventing falsified medicines from getting to the public. Do not purchase medicinal products from unapproved supplier! /EUROPEAN COMMISSION Guidelines of...

Product Recall

“The effectiveness of the arrangements for product recall should be evaluated regularly (at least annually)” Clause 6.5 – Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of medicinal products for human use (2013/ 343/01) That’s what it says. A simple sentence. A...

Active/Non Active

Spare a thought for the Packer. The one who has been assigned to pack Pharmaceuticals for transit. Painstaking, precise and controlled. Packages containing gel packs, ice-blocks, temp. loggers, and fillers of different varieties – in specified cartons. And this is in...

Summary Care Records (SCR)

Pharmacy teams are working through their CPPE training and registering with their local National Health Service England Area Teams (NHS AT) or are they now Local Area teams (LAT)/Commissioning support units (CSU) and Health and Social case information centre (hscic)....

Happy to not comply?

Anyone involved in the distribution chain of pharmaceutical products is by now well aware of the increasing responsibility of ensuring their appropriate transportation – to be secure, segregated and temperature controlled. The MHRA, from general Symposium directives...