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Pholcodine medication being withdrawn from UK pharmacies

Pholcodine medication being withdrawn from UK pharmacies

by Sehar Shahid | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog, Pharmacy, Pharmacy Brands

Pholcodine containing cough and cold medication is being taken off the shelves in UK pharmacies amidst safety fears.

Medical Research wastage due to ethical , scientific and economic deficiencies is scandalous.

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 2, 2019 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Pharmacy Brands

In this day and age we would hope that medical research and clinical trials would be tightly controlled and effective.  In 1994, Altman stated  that we should be appalled at the money wasted in shoddy medical research  where the sample size was too small to be...

Stop taking Antibiotics when you feel better not at the end of the course?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 31, 2017 | Blog, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands, Pharmacy Suppliers

Changes often bring surprises and they need to be risk assessed.  This new guidance is in direct conflict with what I have told patients for the thirty years that I have been qualified.  When I first qualified the message was pre-printed on labels which we religiously...

New Pharmacy professional standards come into force on May 12th

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 4, 2017 | Blog, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands

Read the nine new standards below and ask yourself the questions I have posed follow the standard, if you cannot say Yes to all the questions you need to reflect on your practice considering these new guidelines and act now! Standard 1. Provide person-centred care...

Does modern technology give better and cheaper pharmacy access to everyone?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 4, 2017 | Blog, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands

Just this week I have read of two government funded Scottish initiatives for pharmacy, one for a research project where patients in a rural area in Aberdeenshire where a patient can go into the post office and speak to a pharmacist in a neighbouring village via a...

What is EMVO?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog, GPhC, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands, Pharmacy Suppliers, Regulation

EMVO launched an online portal for pharmaceutical companies that can on-board over the next two years in plenty time for the February 2019 deadline. EMVO offers guidance documents for potential on-boarders. Manufacturers and parallel distributors are encouraged to...
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