by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
The BAPW ‘s Gold Standard of Good Distribution has been under review by their RP committee and they pride themselves on leading on quality standards and in some cases the proposes changes will go beyond what will be mandated by Law. The new standards will...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
A public service obligation has been proposed for pharmacists, wholesalers and manufacturers to sign up to, ensuring patients needs are put first to help to combat the time wasting required to ensure continuity of supply and mitigate the risk to patient safety...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
Martin Sawyer opened the conference and was keen to let the Government know that they should have chosen the existing medicine wholesalers to manage their anti-viral stock , which would have saved them writing off £74 million pounds worth of stock. UK Medicine...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
The clock is ticking and September is looming, have you validated your supply chain yet? If you hold a Wholesale Dealers Licence you will be asked to evidence that your supply chain for both ambient and cold chain are compliant with good distribution practice. We,...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
Pulse wave analysis (PWA) is a non-invasive, valid, reliable and widely used technique to investigate central blood pressure and arterial stiffness. It has been shown by many studies to produce valid reliable results to assess the vascular health of adults and...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
Hacking of personal data has rocketed since 2010, and it is no longer the lone hacker sitting in his bedroom. The data loss barometer which tracks lost data found that external data leaks affected more than 160 million people in 2012 and this is an increase of 40% on...
