by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 11, 2017 | Pharmacist
The huge fuss over a high street pharmacy charging nearly £30s for a morning after pill, when the medicine can be bought for under £6 pounds. What professional provides a fifteen to twenty-minute consultation for less? If you go to an optician even with a voucher it...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 11, 2017 | NHS, Pharmacist
Never has the time been better for pharmacy to take on more responsibility to help relieve the pressure on the NHS! So why is it not happening We have no voice? Well actually we do have they are the public and more recently the research showing that the pharmacy led...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 11, 2017 | Community Pharmacy, CQC, GPhC, pharmacy business development, Regulation
Have you started to provide this years’ Flu Vaccination service can you say you compliant? Do you know what CPSIVAS and NHSCB are? The amended directions were signed on the 29th of August 2017 by Jannette Howe, head of Pharmacy at the Department of health. Did you...
by Sandeep Lyall | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Consultancy, Pharmacist, Regulation
Should cosmetic procedures like Dermal fillers be allowed to be performed on patients, without the patient knowing if the person performing it was qualified to do so. Nuffield Council on Bioethics reported on Cosmetic Procedures: Ethical Issues stated, “there is...
by Sandeep Lyall | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Regulation
Controversial from the start, prescription charges were introduced in 1952, abolished in 1965 and then reintroduced in 1968 with a system of exemptions that persists in modified form today. The charge itself has risen from 20p in 1979 to the current price of £8.60 per...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Pharmacist, Superintendent Pharmacists
If you wholesale you will be familiar with the MHRA, asking you for the contract with your alarm company and asking you how often the alarm is tested. How you prevent unauthorised access into your warehouse. Why does GPhC not ask similar questions about your Pharmacy?...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, CQC
Pharmacy is exempt, I here you say, well in the past we were, but as we start to develop new services this is often not the case. If a pharmacy starts to provide services such as “Treatment of disease and disorder or injury “as defined in schedule 1 of the Health and...
by Sandeep Lyall | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Regulation, Uncategorized
The US Food and Drug Administration gets drugs to the market faster than other major regulators but it is still too slow. Can approvals be achieved quicker without affecting patient safety? Companies can take years to submit their...
by Adel Nagy | Aug 22, 2017 | Blog
Autumn is knocking on our doorstep. Winter temperature mapping will be essential soon. Need help with mapping your warehouse or your fleet? Experienced in many years of quality control we can provide you 2 or 3 point calibrated data loggers (hire or purchase) and help...
by Adel Nagy | Aug 22, 2017 | Blog, GDP/RP, Training
When did you have your last GDP training? Check your training folder. Make sure you and your staff are GDP competent. Should you have your or your staff annual refresher GDP training as guidelines changing and we can provide you up-to-date information on latest...
