by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog, NHS, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands, pharmacy business development, Pharmacy Suppliers
Pharmacists and Physios have been working in GP surgeries now for over a year and the aim is to relieve pressure on the GPs so they have time for the more complicated patients. How is the segregation of patients carried out in practice and how are going to measure...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog, NHS, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands, pharmacy business development, Pharmacy Suppliers
Quality Payments can be claimed at the end of April 2017 and again at the end of November 2017. The April payments will be made at the end of June, beginning of July. Do you meet the criteria? First steps are as follows: You must offer at least one advanced service...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog, NHS
Mr Mowat laid out the plans in the House of Commons today and he insisted the government “appreciates the value” of the pharmacy sector. But he stressed the current system does not do enough to “promote efficiency or...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands, pharmacy business development, Pharmacy Suppliers
What are the hidden costs to scrapping a pharmacy repeat dispensing service? There will pressure on the overstretched surgery staff! Trying to get through on the phone to a surgery now is bad enough but if every person who forgets to put his repeat slip in on time to...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands, pharmacy business development, Pharmacy Suppliers
Is your pharmacy at risk by the proposed funding cuts? Can you survive a proposed 12% funding cut? Have you looked at your figures? The C +D have reported a leaked government document which suggests that only 1,380 pharmacy sites out of 11,674 in England will...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog, CQC
Care Quality Commission aims to maximise patient outcomes by optimising the effectiveness and safety of medicine use in registered service providers registered providers. The aim of CQC when it comes to medicine management is getting the best treatment possible for...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog, Pharmacist
Are you customer-facing empathetic and focussed on “Dispensing, Responding to Symptoms and Service Development? Or do you want to be the triage for doctors and nurses, their front line in the surgery? Some pharmacists are best placed where medicines are developed,...
by John Finey | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog, Brexit
I might be an old cynic but I fear that both the challenges and the opportunities presented by Brexit will lead more people to consider what I am going to call ‘more creative business practices’. To misquote a colleague’s favourite saying, “there are two things...
by John Finey | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog, Brexit
With the Pound in freefall, I am sure we have all done a quick calculation to try to second guess how it will affect us. The most obvious is the cost of holidaying abroad; next summer’s trip to France will cost considerably more in terms of travel and accommodation...
by Adel Nagy | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog
The European GDP Guideline of 5 November 2013 requires that wholesale distributors have to appoint a Responsible Person for GDP activity. Taking part of many inspections one of the key area the auditors looking is how the roles and responsibilities of key personnel...
