by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 17, 2015 | Blog, Business, Community Pharmacy, Consultancy, Distance Selling Pharmacy, GPhC, Licence Acquisition, NHS, Pharmacist, pharmacy business development, PNA, Regulation, setting up a pharmacy business
The GPhC consider a pharmacy professional fit to practice when they can demonstrate the skills, knowledge, character and health required to do their job safely and effectively. They describe fitness to practice as a person’s suitability to be on the register without...
by Ryan Watts | Jul 1, 2015 | Analyisis, Behind the scenes, Blog, Business, Distance Selling Pharmacy, EudraGMDP, External Audit, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, GPhC, MHRA, Pharmacy Suppliers, Quality Systems, Regulation, SOPs, Transportation
In a recent case a supplier of biologically active products for clinical trials was reported to the HSE for not supplying Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to their client. Under the CHIP or Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002, suppliers...
by Ryan Watts | Jun 18, 2015 | Analyisis, Blog, Business, Consultancy, Distance Selling Pharmacy, GPhC, Licence Acquisition, MHRA, Pharmacist, pharmacy business development, Regulation
As more and more of us are going online to purchase medicines there has been a worldwide growth in the number of internet pharmacies selling counterfeit (falsified) medicines. Oftensuch medicines are...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 20, 2015 | GPhC
Pharmacy is a highly regulated profession and occasionally pharmacists may face prosecution. Prosecuting pharmacists for dispensing errors has always been a rare case. The 2009 Elizabeth Lee case with a suspended 3-month prison sentence shook the confidence of...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 7, 2015 | GPhC, NHS
The UK is a leader in switches, after New Zealand, but first in Europe. We had the first Statin in the world and the first emergency hormonal contraceptive (Levonelle) available over the counter. In the last century there were double digit switches of...
by Ryan Watts | Dec 19, 2014 | GPhC, Pharmacist, Regulation
Do ever think to move from Italy to the UK to work as a pharmacist? As the UK is part of the European Union the freedom to work across the EU means the UK recognises European Pharmacist qualifications. To be eligible to apply you must have completed an appropriate...
