Wholesale Dealers Licenses – importing from outside the EEA

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 28, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

It is quite widely appreciated that the manufacture of many prescription medicines, particularly generics, is done outside the EEA and that most large generic companies have factories in lower cost production countries. What is less well recognised is the regulatory...

Wholesale dealers license holders -Regulatory support

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

**** 2014 UPDATE ****Wholesale Distribution Authorisation holders – Regulatory Support So you’ve made it to this page and here is our 2014 update. We often receive enquiries regarding the type of authorisation or licence required from the MHRA to trade in...

Pharmacy Contract applications – what if one opens near you?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

I have been asked more than once what a pharmacist can do once an exempt category pharmacy contract, usually a 100 hour contract, is awarded nearby. Clearly the situation always varies somewhat from pharmacy to pharmacy, particularly depending upon the mix of NHS and...

Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

Whilst we have been promised electronic Prescription transfer between surgery and pharmacy for several years, it really does look as though we may get the so called “Release 2” soon. Many (but not all) Pharmacy PMR providers already have so called...

Medicines Management – New Medicines service

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

The New Medicines Service (NMS) to be launched by October 2011 will give Pharma companies a potential opportunity to gain a more detailed insight into patients decisions about taking their newly prescribed medicines, particularly if they choose to work with...

Pharmacy suppliers entering the UK market

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

At the 2010 Pharmacy Show, about 6 small French health and beauty suppliers wishing to enter the UK market for the first time, took an area of stands together in order to attract interest either from distributors or from pharmacies directly.   It is clearly quite...

Public Speaking In France

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

I am pleased to have been invited by the organisers of the French Annual Conference for pharmacists held in Paris to join in a debate, at the February 2012 Conference, concerning the importance to customers of the branding of pharmacies according to their membership...

Responsible Persons – Training & Qualifications

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

The MHRA have for some 2 years been advocating more formal training and more formal continuing professional development for Responsible Persons (RPs). The latest situation as I understand it is that the MHRA have put out to tender to training organisations, their...

Responsible Persons (RPs)

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

Smaller and brand new wholesale dealers in medicines are naturally unlikely to want to go to the expense of, or take the risk of employing a Responsible Person (RP) as an employee. The MHRA are therefore well used to encountering the use of so called contract RPs, who...

Exemptions to Control of Entry – Are PCTs using delaying tactics?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

As PCTs cannot currently refuse exempt pharmacy contract applications, except when there are LPS services (Local Pharmaceutical services) being provided in the neighbourhood, they seem to be looking for alternative ways to ward off such applications. A customer of...