by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 10, 2015 | Behind the scenes, Blog, Business, Community Pharmacy, Distance Selling Pharmacy, EudraGMDP, Falsified Medicines, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, MHRA, RP, SOPs, WDA(H), WDA(H)
It was only last month that at the FDA issued a warning not to purchase Diazepam online due to the potential that the drugs may be counterfeit. There are two issues at the heart of this blog: 1 being the prevalence of counterfeit medication and the second being the...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Distance Selling Pharmacy, GPhC, NHS, Pharmacist, SOPs, Training
Just a quick example from South Australia of real-life pharmacy best practice. A Adelaide doctor has been facing court over allegations of forged prescriptions for both Stilnox and Tramadol. Pharmacy staff alerted the police after concerns over the suspicious scripts...
by Ryan Watts | Jul 1, 2015 | Analyisis, Behind the scenes, Blog, Business, Distance Selling Pharmacy, EudraGMDP, External Audit, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, GPhC, MHRA, Pharmacy Suppliers, Quality Systems, Regulation, SOPs, Transportation
In a recent case a supplier of biologically active products for clinical trials was reported to the HSE for not supplying Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to their client. Under the CHIP or Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002, suppliers...
by Ryan Watts | Jun 12, 2015 | Analyisis, Behind the scenes, Blog, Bona Fides, Business, Consultancy, EudraGMDP, Falsified Medicines, GDP/RP, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, Licence Acquisition, Open Courses, pharmacy business development, Regulation, RP, SOPs, Training, WDA(H), WDA(H)
Yesterday I had a call from a distraught pharmacist who desperately wanted to know how to go about growing his new pharmaceutical wholesaling venture which he had set up with a friend. Our conversation went as follows: Caller: “We have applied for a MHRA...
by Ryan Watts | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, Bona Fides, Business, Consultancy, Falsified Medicines, Good Distribution Practice - GDP, MHRA, Pharmacy Suppliers, Quality Systems, Regulation, RP, SOPs, Training, Uncategorized, WDA(H), WDA(H)
In the developing countries, poor healthcare infrastructure and a high demand for medicines has led to a proliferation of criminal gangs specialising in the counterfeiting of drugs. In the UK there have been several incidents of falsified medicines entering the NHS...
by John Finey | Feb 24, 2015 | SOPs
You want a set of SOPs in preparation for a licence application or in preparation for an audit/inspection , where do you go? The Internet? – well yes there are plenty of SOPs on the internet, indeed a set of one of the biggest retail pharmacy chain’s SOPs can be...
