by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 2, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
** APRIL 2014 UPDATE ** In the old days not so long ago, as you can see below from the blog content, relocating used to be dependent on distance. Now, times have changed. The relocation rule is an exemption on the proviso of satisfying certain conditions. Will you be...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 1, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
The Financial times reported that George DEVOL, the American inventor of the first ever Robotic Arm machine died last week. He initially called his invention a “programmed article-handling device” Inspired by reading about Asimov’s fictional robots,...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 2, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Recently published data suggest that on average 10 years ago, the average patient in England had just under 12 NHS items prescribed for them, about one a month. This average would of course arise statistically from many patients with no medication at all prescribed,...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 2, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
I well remember how excited I was the first time that I ran a pharmacy on my own as more than a locum, even though it was a long time ago! Today’s young pharmacists are no less enthusiastic and ambitious than I was, and it is therefore a pity that NHS Pharmacy...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 4, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
**** 2014 UPDATE **** Wouldn’t it be convenient if every GP surgery had a pharmacist? Doesn’t it make sense that this should be the case? Often, many GPs or pharmacists call me about opening, relocating or merging a pharmacy and GP. But it’s not...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 4, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
The man most associated with the development of the Bar-code, Alan Haberman, recently died. The first product scanned in a US Supermarket was in 1974, and by the 1980’s bar-code scanning had been widely taken up around the world. Haberman’s original...
