by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Dec 6, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Pharmacies will now be inspected against the Standards for Registered Premises, published in September 2012. http://www.pharmacyregulation.org/sites/default/files/Standards%20for%20registered%20pharmacies%20September%202012.pdf The purpose of these standards is to...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 28, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Regulation
2014 PPRS – An Overview The Department of Health has stated: “The new scheme will provide assurance on almost all of the branded medicines bill for the NHS. The bill will stay flat over the next two years and will grow slowly after that. The industry will make...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 14, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
PPRS – It has arrived and will be in place for 5 years from the first of January 2014! What are the overarching principals? The aim is to have deliver a single holistic , UK pricing agreement that underpins the pricing of branded medicines to the NHS . It is...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
Having been through a few MHRA inspections in the last few weeks and having watched the desperation, devastation and destruction caused by the typhoon in the Philippines this week my thoughts ran to…………. Are we so worried about the ambient...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy
Do you tweet ? Do your customers tweet ? Would you consider tweeting ? What do you think about it ? I have asked many pharmacist and most do not tweet and often feel it is not professional and would not tweet to try to drive customers to their pharmacy. I might have...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog
How many of you are so busy doing your day to day job that you are blissfully unaware of your bottom line? What do you clear after all your costs on a daily basis ? What should you charge per hour if you were asked to carry out some work for somebody else? We are so...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog
Hear me out on this one …….if you have not met your inspector take time to check him out. Google him and look on the MHRA website to see what he may have presented at a MHRA conference for example. Does he come from an auditing background? Is she a...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers
New Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines ( 2013/C 68/01) require Responsible Persons (RP) to be trained and to keep ” Up to date”. They require RPs to ensure that all their staff have a good understanding of the current GDP guidelines and are...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
In a previous post, we discussed the impending changes to the Wholesale Dealer Licence (WL & WDL) and the transition through to the new Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (Human). You should also have seen today’s post relating to the outcomes from recent...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers
Following a brief sanction, the MHRA are inspecting again and for the first time checking licences against the new guidelines. After being in attendance at a number of recent inspections, it is becoming clear that the focus of the inspections has been broadly related...
