100 Hour pharmacies – transitional arrangements

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

It looks likely that the current DOH consultation on control of entry will conclude that all exemptions except distance selling pharmacies will be removed. The closing date for comments and observations to be made on the consultation is 25th January 2012, after which...

On line information on medicines

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...

New Medicines Service -parallel in Holland

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Dec 9, 2011 | Blog

If progress in Holland is anything to go by, the the NMS here in England should do well. This is because for several years already, Dutch pharmacists speak with all patients who are prescribed a new medicine, on the presentation at the pharmacy of the first two...

Concordance with medicine taking

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...

How the UK pharmacy and healthcare system compares with other European Countries

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 30, 2011 | Blog, Testimonials

I want to thank you again for your successful presentation made in London to our Pharma Group Europe conference. Your detailed explanations for all the delegates were extremely interesting and enlightening. Our international participants from Germany, Austria,...

Wholesale dealers licenses – EU Consultation

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...

100 Hour pharmacies and the future

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

So we now have a consultation paper from the DOH which, if enacted as written sometime after Jan 25th 2012, will sound the end of further 100 hour pharmacies being granted permission to open. It is not yet clear for how long 100 hour applications will continue to be...

Improving patient adherence

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...

Opening a new pharmacy – have you got planning consent?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

** 2014 UPDATE  ** Reading through the old blog material we have posted and I noticed the following article from the previous owner of the business about planning consent.  Despite the original blog being dated in 2011 the issues remains as pertinent today as it was...

Improving patient adherence

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 6, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

With the introduction of the New Medicines Service (NMS) last week, the Government have demonstrated their belief that it is worth paying pharmacists to personally interact on a structured basis with patients who are newly prescribed medicines in 4 defined clinical...