by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 2, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
From 12th July 2102, the UK is adopting an EU directive which will effectively close the loophole that has previously allowed pharmacies to conduct up to 5% of their trade commercially without holding a wholesale dealers license. Those wholesale exporters in...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 30, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
For Pharma companies, adherence or lack of it, is undoubtedly a very major stumbling block to brand development and brand success. Many types of initiative have been tried over the years, to try to improve patients adherence to prescribed therapy, with mixed results....
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 30, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
80% of all deficiencies found by MHRA inspectors during inspections of wholesale dealers of medicines premises concerned just 3 subject categories : * Temperature Conditions * Quality Management Systems (QMS) * Documentation With temperature conditions, the most...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
Wholesale dealers of medicines may not see all the publications that community pharmacists receive, so they may be unaware that the problems that community pharmacists experience in obtaining certain medicines for prescriptions remains a significant problem. For that...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
One of the advantages of working with several companies and in different locations as a contract RP, is having the opportunity to work with a number of different MHRA GDP inspectors and to learn from them what matters are most important to them at premises licence...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
When 10 additional member states joined the EU in 2004, the Pharma Industry successfully pressed for and obtained the insertion of a “specific mechanism” in the Accession Treaty governing the entry of the new members states into the EU, concerning...