your QMS ? How do you  manage your change control?

Does your RP have any training ? Do they keep up to date ? When did they last

go to a MHRA conference ?

Do you  ever have an external audit ? Do you  use a broker ?Have you checked their

bona fides?  If you  require any help to get  ready for your next inspection give Jackie

a call +447909836670 or e mail her on Jackie@pharmacyconsulting.co.uk

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Healthcare and pharmacy are growing mandates in Europe and
the USA. Pharmacists must embrace the new changes or they will  lose out
to  other providers. Have you got a robust web offering for your pharmacy

or pharmacies?

If not why not , the public trust  pharmacies and they are more

likely to  order their over the  counter medications from you rather than

Amazon.  As a profession we must  embrace all the  new technologies

and start to  listen to what the  future customers want.

“ Medication to be available or delivered when, where and how they want it “

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As the PSNC urges pharmacies to embrace new services NICE urges commissioners

to exclude medicines from PGDs often delivered by pharmacist.Pharmacists who

use PGDs should stand up for them or they will lose out on services which we were

encouraged to deliver? Practice commissioners have been asked to consider alternatives

such as independent prescribing?

The Chief Medical Officer claims that antimicrobial resistance poses a “catastrophic threat”

to  public health  and Nice has called for a stop to “Unnecessary and inappropriate” PGDs

and their recommendations are open for consultation until April 29^thand new guidelines

are expected in June. Nice has asked for medication such as antibiotics, medication for

long term conditions such as diabetes , drugs that require complex monitoring or variable

doses and black triangle medicines to  be excluded. Nice believes that PGDs are appropriate

for some medication such as EHC and contraception.The NPA has removed all antibiotics

except azithromycin for chlamydia from their PGDs after consultation with the DH.

In times when Walgreens offer inoculations for 17 different conditions including shingles

and meningitis and want to roll this service out across Boots store in the UK we are to retract

PGD services if they include antibiotics?

American pharmacists run HIV excellence centres and are involved in giving

specialist advice on medication at stages of the disease process yet a pharmacist is not to

be trusted by nice not to over prescribe an anti-biotic under a PGD? It does not make sense.

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Why does it take a group of patients and cares “CURE” under the lead

of Julie Bailey, to hold the Regulators and, The Government to account.

A plethora of health care professionals, were involved and many must

have been aware of the poor quality of care. Do you; turn a blind eye to, poor

standards in your practice?

The  recent  public enquiry  was announce by The  Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP,

as he felt it was a failure of the  trust first and foremost but  also a national failure

of the regulatory and supervisory system.  The role of all the above is to

ensure quality, safe and effective patient care.

One previous report highlighted a “Culture of fear” which discouraged staff from

reporting concerns.

One of the enquiry’s terms of reference was

“To examine the operation of the commissioning, supervisory
and regulatory organisations and other agencies, including their monitoring
role “

One key recommendation was that all service providers, regulatory
and ancillary organisations in health care should consider the findings and
recommendations and look to their own practice.

Patients Cases were heard and reports such as

“Triage in A&E was undertaken by untrained staff”

were brought  to light. How often do we have untrained staff working in

your practice, or they may be trained but they have no record of it?

What training records do you have? One of the previous report

highlighted that

“Management thinking during the period under review was
dominated by financial pressures and achieving FT status, to the detriment of
quality of care.”

Due to increasing pressure on the remuneration in pharmacy have
you, taken your focus, away from professional standards? When did we last rotate
stock or date check our stock?

How can you make it better and how do you audit, monitor and
improve your practice?

Have you completed a patient survey this year? Do you record complaints and incidents?

Do you investigate them and improve your SOPs? Look at your Pharmacy
standards, the culture in your pharmacy and, your professional practice, create a baseline and
set yourself goals to improve your standards.

If you are too busy, let Pharmacy Consulting help you.

We can help you with SOPs, Audit, and Training, preparing an
application for a warehouse licence (WL) or for a MHRA inspection of your WL?

Check out our website  www.pharmacyconsulting.co.uk for more information.

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placed to help with  SOP , procedure development , training, audit  and compliance.

Are your surgeries applying for CQC registration? Do they need help with the

application or SOPs? To prepare for their inspections?  Do they need help with their

staff training?

If you want to get involved and are not sure how to or what is involved, talk to

Pharmacy Consulting and we can help.If they already  have their registration

they may  need an external  audit to  help them to prepare for their next  inspection?

It is an opportunity  to  build better working  relationship with your local  surgeries,

nursing homes or other service providers.

Contact  jackie@pharmacyconsulting.co.uk if you  want to discuss CQC or other

potential opportunities for colaborative working with your surgery, other service

providers and  GPs.

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‘Stress Management in the workplace’

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Pharmacies must obtain a wholesale dealers licence (WDL) if they want to carry on wholesale dealing.  Pharmacies must also only buy medicines from WDL holders in the UK or EEA member states. Pharmacy Consulting Limited will help you to obtain a WDL for your business and can provide “Contract RP “services if required. If you would like any further advice please contact Jackie@pharmacyconsulting.co.uk

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Once all the KBIs and KPIs have been set then you need to be a good leader with clear vision to drive them, and optimise the outcomes. Pharmacy consulting can help you develop your leadership skills.

Many Pharmacy owners do focus on their financial business indicators such as

• Sales
• Expenses
• Profits
• Cash flow
• Capital  expenditure
• Margins

But KBIs can be much more powerful and can show you where to focus your efforts to grow your business. If you have a new pharmacy you may need to focus on gaining new customers to obtain your practice allowance. An existing pharmacy may focus on retention and link selling, or they could be under threat from their nearest surgery moving further away . Internet pharmacies may be trying to minimise their delivery costs. All pharmacies will be trying to maximise the services they are trying to provide and all must keep their focus, customer centric and maximise their consent to service and nominations.

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