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...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
Another new year, another new year for Pharma to grasp the opportunity to work more closely with pharmacy to develop adherence enhancing activities that benefit patients, Pharma and pharmacists, but will it begin to happen in 2012? Evidence suggest that the degree of...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Dec 9, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
A Research company (Manhattan Research) have just published the results of a survey of just over 3000 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain who were already interested in on-line health information, about their attitudes to on-line information on...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 30, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
At last with the introduction of the New Medicines Service (NMS) the Department of Health have shown confidence ion pharmacist’s ability to add value for patients prescribed a new medicine in 4 important therapeutic areas. It is to be hoped that most community...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
As I have mentioned before the EU are currently consulting on updating the Good Distribution Practice guidelines across Europe. Having attended an MHRA training day in London recently, it is evident to me that there are a several areas where Wholesale Dealers and...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
We have all heard the statistics many times concerning the high proportion of patients who for whatever reason do not follow a prescribed treatment regime, even though they have taken time out to attend an appointment with their GP, and clearly most patients who visit...
