by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog, NHS
NHS patients are to be diagnosed by” Chatbots “in North London as a trail. Patients are to type in their symptoms and the new Babylon app will do the rest! The medical profession is raising concerns that the patients might miss describe their symptoms and the chatbots...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
APBI is pushing the government to secure “Continued regulatory co-operation and alignment with the EU for medicines” it is in the interests of the citizens UK, EU, and also product quality to maintain the pan European standards that have been developed over many...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
The Royal College of Surgeons has announced that they have established at voluntary register of surgeons who are qualified in cosmetic surgery and this can be accessed by patients. To be included on the list the surgeons must have attended a masterclass on ethics and...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog, Brexit
Change is inevitable no matter what happens so if you are a RP in a small wholesaler or one of many in a quality department I would expect you to be considering the different scenarios and how they might affect you personally, your team and your company. It is over...
by Adel Nagy | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog, Falsified Medicines
Have only two years to prepare for FMD compliance. EU FMD specifically outlines how the EU will track and trace medications using serialisation, government reporting, and verification components. This time last year (February 2016) the Delegated Act was...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog, Business
Bercrow says NO you cannot address parliament and May says Yes please come and visit as soon as possible as we want to talk TRADE DEAL! This is the silo thinking and working seem all the time in a wholesaler’s business! The commercial team say we must push sales at...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog, Bona Fides, Consultancy, CQC, Distance Selling Pharmacy, EudraGMDP, Falsified Medicines, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, GPhC, MHRA, Pharmacist, Quality Systems, Regulation, setting up a pharmacy business, SOPs, WDA(H), WDA(H)
What is the risk of not meeting you suppliers and customers face to face? Call me old fashioned but I like to know who I am dealing with. I like to see the white of their eye, their premises, their procedures. With Valentine’s Day, fast approaching sweethearts are...
by Adel Nagy | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog, Bona Fides, Business, Consultancy, EudraGMDP, Falsified Medicines, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, Humidity, MHRA, Quality Systems, Regulation, SOPs, Transportation, WDA(H)
Having trouble gathering all the necessary information about your customer or supplier? Getting ready for Inspection? Short of time? Having difficulties? PCL have many years of experience in bona fide checks. We offer different levels of help: Bespoke Bona fide Team...
by Brian Lindsay | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, World Cancer Day
Taking place under the tagline ‘We can. I can.’, World Cancer Day 2017 will explore how everyone – as a collective or as individuals – can do their part to reduce the global burden of cancer. Just as cancer affects everyone in different ways, all people...
by Brian Lindsay | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog
As we are always being told that we undertake Risk Assessments all the time. In our personal lives and in our professional lives. Mostly, we are doing it automatically. A sub-conscious process that draws on prior knowledge, previous experience and a perceived...