by Ryan Watts | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, NHS
‘NHS pressure worsens as key targets missed’: On our rapid approach to the winter season, this is not the best news headline to wake up to. The winter of 2014 saw the worse A&E waiting times since targets were introduced in 2004. Frontline NHS staff have no...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
A contract warehouse, suitably authorised and validated, – and with a proven track record in 3rd Party stock handling – is a valuable, cost effective and reliable partner in wholesale distribution. Their facilities and experience in stock management will...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
The preparations have gone well so far, the documentation is in place and all your colleagues understand what’s going on. The Inspection looms. The build-up process would have brought up questions and challenges, but would have made you and your colleagues focus on...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog
Throughout many inspections, medicinal product transportation is a must not to be missed topic. High attention is payed on its risk assessment, temperature and route validation by the inspectors. Not enough to have a well detailed SOP if the most important steps are...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog
The world’s leading quality management standard –ISO 9001- has recently been revised.. The new ISO 9100:2015 QS Standards just got published. It is less prescriptive, focusing on the importance of the process approach with risk-based thinking and employing the...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog
The use of licensed medicines maximises patient safety while minimising liability, but there are occasions when an unlicensed or off-label medicine is prescribed and dispensed. High attention payed to (ULM) Unlicensed Medicines in the UK. Recently £1 million worth of...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
All patients have the right to choose where they get their medicines from. NHS England are launching a campaign to promote this message. This comes in response to some pharmacists and GP’s seeking to inappropriately influence which pharmacies dispense a patient’s...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
Are you aware that from 1 September 2015, England, Scotland and Wales became the first countries in the world to offer babies a vaccine against meningitis and septicaemia caused by meningococcal B infection as part of a national immunisation programme? This has led to...
by Ryan Watts | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog
Validation, qualification and calibration are not just one-off activities. They must be carried out on an on-going basis if a facility’s development, operation and maintenance are going to continue to meet all regulatory requirements. Validation involves the...
by Ryan Watts | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
Please ensure your chaperones are trained as they may be called upon to do any of the following ……. Providing emotional comfort and reassurance to patients To assist in the examination, for example carrying out blood pressure checks or blood tests To act as an...
