Good Distribution Practice Training

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog

At Pharmacy Consulting we recommend that as part of a new member of staff’s Induction training, any company that holds a Wholesale Dealers Licence, should include a basic introduction to Good Distribution Practice(GDP). Do you have this in place currently? Would...

Control of entry

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

At a break-out session as part of this year’s PSNC conference, Steve Lutener presented on the proposed new control of entry mechanisms to replace the 2005 regulations There is not space here to go into the details of what Steve had to say, as the new regulations...

Wholesale Dealers Licenses

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

When the UK adopts an EU wide directive on July 12th 2012, community pharmacies will no longer be able to rely upon the former understanding that they can trade up to 5% of their medicines turnover without holding a Wholesale Dealers Licence (WDL). The MHRA have made...

Text messages can improve compliance

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

A recent article in PME has confirmed that patients who elect to receive compliance support messages via text on average improved their compliance levels to prescribed medication by around 10% compared to similar patients who did not elect to receive such text...

Medicines Management -Managing heart medication

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacy Suppliers

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) are calling upon pharmacists to support a current campaign to help patients manage their heart medication better. The campaign is called “just like that” and is to be fronted by the face of comedian Tommy Cooper who died...

Minor relocations

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

Even when your minor relocation is approved by your Local PCT your probelms may not be over. A client of mine had received, as expected, PCT approval to relocate his pharmacy from what had over the years become a very secondary shopping street, about 400m to a new...

Pharmacies in Health Centres

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 3, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

According to the C&D, as many as 20% of pharmacists could be considering  moving their business into a health centre over the next 5 years based upon a survey by Lloyds TSB. Pharmacy Consulting Ltd (PCL) have been involved in various projects in which pharmacies...

Improving pharmacy profitability

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 3, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

The impact of expected Category M clawbacks, plus the inevitable increase in a myriad of other financial pressures in a recessionary environment is likely to lead to the further eroding profit margins this year particularly for independent pharmacies.With all the...

European marketing authorisations

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 3, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

According to PMLive, from last month, European applications for human medicines marketing authorizations can be made on-line via the EMA eSubmission gateway, following a successful 4 month pilot period. This should speed up the processing of marketing applications The...

Wholesale dealing with pharmacies

by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 2, 2012 | Blog, Pharmacy Suppliers

From 12th July 2102, the UK is adopting an EU directive which will effectively close the loophole that has previously allowed pharmacies to conduct up to 5% of their trade commercially without holding a wholesale dealers license. Those wholesale exporters in...