Looking to buy a pharmacy?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

So you want to be a business owner and you’ve decided you want to run your own pharmacy. Do you know what’s on the market? Who to contact? And how do you assess business value? What do you do? It is a daunting task to buy a pharmacy and the end outcome is...

Introducing our newest author on the blog!

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Firstly, to all the readers of this welcome to the blog and I hope you enjoy the content I will be preparing for you.  My name is Antony Boonen and I am new to Pharmacy Consulting and new to the blog.  I have relocated from Australia where I spent the last 8 years...

(2013/C 68/01) – what does it mean to you?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

** 2014 Update ** After being present at a number of MHRA inspections since these guidelines came in, PCL have had a number of calls from wholesalers who have been suspended for trade or whose inspection results weren’t great. PCL can help you audit your current...

A future for Community Pharmacy

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

It is an interesting landscape for the industry right now.  The smaller strip pharmacy is becoming an endangered species as the larger retail driven pharmacies continue to evolve.  We know in our own dealings as the customer that we continually expect more for less. ...

Is mobile technology going to help deliver QIPP size savings?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Just as Pharmacy is catching up with relatively old robotic technology  for their dispensaries and ditching  tablet counters. Blue-tooth wireless mobile technology  has advanced, and has  been incorporated  into miniature integrated medical devices.For example...

Temperature mapping and monitoring this Summer

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog

How did your warehouse cope this summer? Were you one of the many companies whose QA Department and Responsible People  (RPs) were tearing their hair out responding to the alarms? We have had continual warm sunny days for nearly two months and while children have...

Business Advice for your Pharmacy ?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

Where do you go if you need some advice regarding buying or new service development?  You might want to borrow to  invest in new technology or benchmark yourself against other pharmacies? Pharmacy Consulting can help you with many of your requirements and can signpost...

Quality & Professionalism & Whistleblowing ?

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

It is a wet Saturday  morning and I am having a coffee and reading  the  headlines in my Pharmaceutical Journal , I  have stumbled on the article “Warning for pharmacist guilty of motoring offences ” The young man had been rather heavy with his right foot...

Join the stakeholder panel and help the RPS develop a resource to improve quality systems in pharmacy

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

Come on all you  pharmacists and technicians , this is a great chance for you to  really help the RPS to improve the quality resources for pharmacy and help other time pressed pharmacists to improve their standards and systems in their practice. I help pharmacy...

Dispensing Robots –Help to balance Quality with Productivity

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Sep 7, 2013 | Blog

Whilst many of us fondly remember the white coat, mortar and pestle days of pharmacy gone by, these memories are quite distant from the reality of today’s Community Pharmacy.  We all know, or at least should know, that pharmacy profitability is not what it once was;...