by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, GPhC, NHS, Pharmacist, Regulation
For the time being, the pill will remain as a ‘prescription only’ item here in Australia. This comes after a recent review undertaken by the Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling (ACMS). Whilst the possibility of moving the pill to an over the counter medicine...
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 Kimberley Peck | Jan 13, 2015 | NHS
The Department of Transport is calling all pharmacies to support the new Drug Driving Campaign coming into force March 2015. The new offence has been introduced to combat the irresponsible few who continue to abuse drugs and risk the lives of themselves and others by...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 13, 2015 | NHS
Sainsbury’s in Tunbridge topped the list by not claiming for 1864 prescriptions they dispensed by way of EPS in 2014. Their pharmacy staff are to be retrained as a corrective action. But this is only half the story, there are many root causes but fundamentally the...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 13, 2015 | NHS
A&E is in crisis with targets being missed, 111 is fielding many calls but will always err on the side of caution and send the patient to A&E if they are in any doubt. GPs appointments are hard to get and often GPs little or no time to properly read patients...
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...
