Gold Standard of Good Distribution is to be relaunched in the Autumn

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

The BAPW ‘s Gold Standard of Good Distribution has been under review by their RP committee and they pride themselves on leading on quality standards and in some cases  the proposes changes will go beyond what will be mandated by Law. The new standards will...

Contract funding to be settled by this autumn

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

Contact funding is to  be settled this Autumn, Sue Sharp announced at the BAPW conference last week, although she would not  comment on the  exact details but she was keen to say that the NHS  has no  more money. There is not  going to me lots more money and their...

Patient Service Obligation to help prevent medicine shortages

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

A public service obligation has been proposed for pharmacists, wholesalers and manufacturers to sign up to, ensuring  patients needs are put  first to  help to combat the time wasting required to ensure continuity of supply  and mitigate the risk to  patient  safety...

BAWP British Association of Pharmacy Wholesalers Conference

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Martin Sawyer opened the conference and was keen to let the Government  know that  they  should have chosen the existing  medicine wholesalers to manage their anti-viral stock , which  would have saved them writing off £74 million pounds worth of stock.  UK  Medicine...

Validation of your supply chain, have you done it yet?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

The clock is ticking and September is looming, have you validated your supply chain yet? If you hold a Wholesale Dealers Licence you will be asked to evidence that your supply chain for both ambient and cold chain are compliant with good distribution practice. We,...

Pulse wave analysis in adults and children, would this be a service you would consider in your pharmacy practice?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Pulse wave analysis (PWA) is a non-invasive, valid, reliable and widely used technique to investigate central blood pressure and arterial stiffness. It has been shown by many studies to produce valid reliable results to assess the vascular health of adults and...

Personal and Workplace Data theft

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Hacking of personal data has rocketed since 2010, and it is no longer the lone hacker sitting in his bedroom. The data loss barometer which tracks lost data found that external data leaks affected more than 160 million people in 2012 and this is an increase of 40% on...

100 hour pharmacies, reduced margins and work life balance

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Community Pharmacy

Pharmacy over the years has had a greater and greater deterioration in work life balance. 100 hour contracts have made this even worse. Add to this Smart phones, tablets and the instant communication world where instant replies are expected and the stress levels of...

Pharmacy Automation

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Well as another year is reaching the longest day the range of robots is increasing in pharmacies in both retail and hospital environments. ARX and their partners CareFusion and more recently Video System have lead the way in the UK. The SMART robot has created an...

A&E Simulation training using robot SIMAN

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 13, 2013 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Simulation training is being carried out in many locations and it is growing, traditionally mannequins with no limbs were used for First Aid Training, some more sophisticated ones light up to tell you how well you have carried out your resuscitation. Simulation...