by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 5, 2015 | Community Pharmacy, Uncategorized
Almost 90% of Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) have reported having a local pharmacy flu vaccination scheme commissioned during the 2014/15 season. This shows that NHS teams are beginning to understand the value that community pharmacy flu vaccination services...
by Ryan Watts | Feb 5, 2015 | Pharmacist
Having spent over twenty years writing plans for the future and pointing out what is under-utilised the pharmacy world has been very slow in influencing, in a significant manner, the commissioning and implementation of this alternative world. Many models are still...
by Kimberley Peck | Feb 3, 2015 | Quality Systems
With snow on our door step have you got a contingency plan? Do you ship your products via airplane? Is it going to be delayed? How remote is your warehouse or pharmacy? Can your team get to work in the event of extreme weather conditions? Are you able to maintain the...
by Ryan Watts | Feb 3, 2015 | CQC
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals recently awarded their first ‘Outstanding’ rating to Frimley Park Hospital. The hospital’s chief executive, Andrew Morris, remarked on “the emphasis on team working and cooperation across specialities” as major influencers in...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Feb 2, 2015 | CQC
The CQC have recently published 75 reports on the quality of care provided by GP practices that have been inspected under the new approach and 60 of those have been found to be good or outstanding which means that 15 have been found to be requiring improvement or in...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 31, 2015 | CQC
From 1 April 2015 providers will have a legal requirement to display their Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating in their premises and online through their website. The CQC are providing guidance to suppliers on how they should display their rating. They also plan to...
by John Finey | Jan 27, 2015 | Pharmacy Automation
You’re probably not old enough to remember Tomorrow’s World, a BBC science program featuring all the up and coming tech, a bit like a 1st generation Gadget Show. Anyway in the 80’s they spent a lot of time predicting how the world would look in the next Millenium, it...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 27, 2015 | Distance Selling Pharmacy
We get many inquiries asking for advise on opening a new retail pharmacy. As anyone who has looked into this can testify to, the biggest hurdle is finding an area where an application stands a chance of succeeding. From 1st April 2013, every Health and Wellbeing Board...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 27, 2015 | Quality Systems
Instead of monitoring the signs around us of quality failure, such as the worrying observation that since the early 1990’s the number of product recalls reported by consumer product safety commissioners around the world has increased by almost 5 times, let us turn...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 23, 2015 | Business
One of the most common non-conformities that I see when auditing against the GDP Guidelines (or, in a previous life as an ISO auditor) is the lack of documented management when it comes to change. Of course businesses need to be flexible and move within quickly...
