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‘Weekend warrior’ exercisers can achieve good cardiovascular benefits Lack of time is often cited as a barrier to undertaking physical activity, so can squeezing exercise into just one to two days a week still provide comparable cardiovascular benefits to a more evenly dis ... Date: 22-09-2023 Categories: • Cardiovascular
Northern Ireland Protocol: will increased bureaucracy threaten medicines supply? ... Stout told the House of Lords that the biggest single factor causing additional paperwork was the falsified medicines directive (FMD), which requires additional packaging and other measures for medicines in Northern Ireland. ‘If we were to look to one single solution, or one fundamental solution would be to remove Northern Ireland’s requirements of FMD to solve the huge amount of problems that ar ... Date: 26-01-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News
Scottish pharmacy leaders commit to disability culture change Pharmacy and pharmacy technician leaders from across Scotland have committed to a series of outcomes to support people with disabilities, including considering how flexible working could be offered routi ... Date: 30-11-2022 Categories: • News
Brexit: Pharmacists and GPs should work together to prevent patients ordering extra medicines Pharmacists and GPs are being encouraged to reassure patients that they do not need to order extra medication as the Brexit transition period nears its end. In a joint statement published yesterday ( ... Date: 18-12-2020 Categories: • News
Half of LPCs worried pharmacies will be blamed for supply problems after Brexit Local pharmaceutical committees (LPCs) have expressed concern about the impact the UK’s exit from the European Union will have on pharmacies in England. Half (50%) of LPCs that responded to a PSNC po ... Date: 19-11-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Brexit: Pharmacies will not have to verify prescription medicine packs from next year ... n prescription medicine packs after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December. This comes as the three devolved nations are due to be disconnected from the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) - the pan-European set of anti-counterfeiting measures designed to stop the spread of fake medicines across Europe. The UK FMD working group confirmed in a statement yesterday (16 November) that ... Date: 17-11-2020 Categories: • News
RPS: Immediate action needed to stop fake medicines entering UK after Brexit ... medicines moving between the EU and the UK. Under current plans to leave the EU at the end of December, the UK will no longer benefit from the safeguards of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), which could leave it vulnerable to ‘an influx of counterfeit medicines’, RPS said. Sandra Gidley, RPS president, said it was ‘unacceptable’ that a plan had not been put in place, despite the UK bein ... Date: 13-10-2020 Categories: • News
MHRA recalls seizure medicines over concerns supply chain ‘may have been compromised’ The medicines watchdog is recalling several batches of medicines used to treat seizures and Parkinson’s disease, over concerns the supply chain may have been compromised. The Medicines and Healthcare ... Date: 18-09-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News
Why 2020 must be a year of stability for community pharmacy ... an for how to deal with the impact Brexit could have on your business (impossible during last year's interminable see-sawing and delays) is at least in sight. Take the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), for example. The threat of a no-deal Brexit, which loomed so heavily over much for last year, is now much more unlikely given that Boris Johnson's deal with the EU has a higher chance of getting th ... Date: 03-01-2020 Categories: • Community • Views
Revealed: One in four UK pharmacies not signed up for FMD six months after deadline One in four UK pharmacies are not yet registered with the UK’s central Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) hub six months after the implementation deadline, The Pharmacist has learned. The directive, which came into force on 9 February, is a pan-European regulation that requires pharmacies to decommissi ... Date: 04-09-2019 Categories: • News
FMD alert: More than 60 batches of medication recalled after leaving supply chain ... the recalled batches. Patients are advised to continue taking their medicines and contact their GP practice to arrange a new prescription. The EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a set of pan-European anti-counterfeiting measures that came into force on 9 February. The affected batches can be viewed here. Date: 28-06-2019 Categories: • News
NPA calls for pharmacy contract to 'be fair to independents' The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has called for the upcoming English pharmacy contract to ‘be fair to independent pharmacies’. In a statement published yesterday (11 June) the lobbying group ur ... Date: 12-06-2019 Categories: • News
Funding cuts to blame for pharmacy sales downturn, say accountants Government cuts to funding have slowed down the market for pharmacy premises by almost a quarter in just a year, a national accountancy firm has said. According to UHY Hacker Young, UK 760 pharmacies ... Date: 03-06-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
PHE ‘not yet issuing’ FMD-compliant vaccination stock Public Health England (PHE) are still ‘not yet issuing’ vaccination stock that complies with the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). The directive, which came into force on 9 February, is a pan-European regulation that requires pharmacies to decommission and verify the authenticity of medicines using barcode scanning software bef ... Date: 02-05-2019 Categories: • News
Community pharmacists must make sure they are in the know if they are to survive Information is power, so pharmacists must make sure that they keep abreast with changes to the profession, says The Pharmacist's editor-in-chief Beth Kennedy Is it just me, or has there been a feeling o ... Date: 01-05-2019 Categories: • Community • Views
PSNC predicts tough talks on reimbursement as contract negotiations kick off ... C outlined its wishlist for the upcoming contract, including a multi-year funding deal and 'recognition' for the investment pharmacists have made into implementing the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). Date: 09-04-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
Pharmacy bodies pay tribute to Steve Brine as minister resigns over Brexit Pharmacy bodies have paid tribute to Winchester MP Steve Brine after he stepped down from his pharmacy minister role over Brexit. Mr Brine resigned as Parliamentary under secretary of state at the Dep ... Date: 26-03-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
My views on unannounced inspections: ‘A mystery patient would have been a better approach' ... jani Superintendent pharmacist at Wainwrights Chemist, Hampshire ‘We’re overwhelmed at the moment and workload stress is at an all-time high because of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), Brexit, medicine shortages, cuts – so the changes couldn’t have come at a worse time. We need to make sure all our resources go into patient safety and staff efficiency and anything that takes us away from ... Date: 13-03-2019 Categories: • Community • Views
Category M prices to rise £10m per month while community pharmacy contract remains unchanged Community pharmacy funding will stay at the current levels from April until the end of negotiations between the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) and the Government. The interim arr ... Date: 08-03-2019 Categories: • Analysis • Latest News • News
‘Checking monkeys’? The pressures of community pharmacy have chained me to the dispensing bench Working in the sector is hard enough without GP pharmacists denigrating it, writes an anonymous community pharmacist I’m a ‘checking monkey’ and I’m not proud. Though less of the ‘unscrupulo ... Date: 01-03-2019 Categories: • Views
Multi-year funding, FMD ‘recognition’ and timely EPS payments: PSNC outlines contract 2019/20 wishlist ... and plan and deal with your businesses accordingly’. PSNC will also seek ‘recognition’ for the sector implementing the anti-counterfeiting measures the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) – which has seen contractors buying barcode scanning equipment out of their own pockets – Mr Dent told delegates. If Britain leaves the European Union without a deal at the end of March, FMD will legally have to ... Date: 18-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
Revealed: Less than half of pharmacies are registered with central UK FMD hub Less than half of community pharmacies are registered with the UK’s central Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) hub, The Pharmacist has learned. Just over 6,000 (6,288) of around 14,000 UK pharmacies are fully registered with SecurMed, according to weekly statistics posted on its website on Tuesday (12 Febru ... Date: 14-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
EXCLUSIVE: Continue FMD preparations ‘with appropriate caution’ due to no-deal Brexit fears, warns NHS England Fears that the UK is heading towards a no-deal Brexit mean pharmacists should continue preparing for the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) ‘with appropriate caution’, NHS England has warned. The directive, which came into force last Saturday (9 February), is a pan-European regulation that requires pharmacies to decommission and veri ... Date: 13-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
The FMD diaries: Week one – ‘It’s going to be another week before we can start decommissioning medicines’ ... ng session but that hasn’t happened yet. The staff are still feeling the same way they were last week, it’s all very uncertain. FMD is just one of the deadlines we’ve got at the moment. We’ve got another deadline for quality payments that every single pharmacy needs to be doing, as well as audits and other deadlines, and they’re all as equally important as each other. This isn’t the only worry ... Date: 12-02-2019 Categories: • Views
Manufacturers: no-deal Brexit would be 'a travesty' due to revoked FMD system Medicines manufacturers have warned that a no-deal Brexit ‘makes no sense’ because the UK would no longer be a part of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). The Europe-wide anti-counterfeiting legislation, due to come into force this weekend (9 February) will see everyone in the supply chain - from manufacturers and retailers, to pharmacies, GPs and hos ... Date: 08-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
Dispense most medicines even if FMD software flags potential problem, NPA advises Most medicines can still be dispensed even if they return an alert from the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) database, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has advised. The FMD is a series of European anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan packs of medication to very their authen ... Date: 08-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
The FMD diaries: One week to go – ‘I'm less anxious as the deadline approaches' Al Patel, contractor at Lee Pharmacy in south east London, reports on how his staff have been preparing for the introduction of the Falsified Medicines Directive It’s the final week before the FMD deadline and we’ve done everything we can to prepare. Last week there were two main developments. First, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) cleared up the confusion abou ... Date: 05-02-2019 Categories: • Views
The FMD diaries: Two weeks to go – ‘Our barcode scanners still haven’t arrived’ ... the bread – so there seem to be some strange goings on out there. With regards to Brexit, obviously pharmacies will have no legal obligation to implement the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) if there is a ‘no-deal’. Last year David Davis said that there will be a fixed implementation period of [I think] 21 months, I’m not sure whether that still applies, but I know the Medicines and Healthcare ... Date: 30-01-2019 Categories: • Views
Pharmacists should be FMD compliant in time for deadline despite packaging delays, working group warns Pharmacists must work towards full compliance with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) deadline despite implementation delays in the supply chain, pharmacy bodies have said. The UK FMD working group for community pharmacy said there will be a ‘significant quantities’ of medicines w ... Date: 30-01-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
My views on Brexit: ‘Pharmacists could get blamed by patients for not stockpiling medication’ ... of international talent coming into the UK.’ ‘Less flexibility’ ‘This is all happening at the same time as the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is coming in. Although the British Government and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are insisting that FMD will still happen even if we do leave the EU [without a deal], there’s no guarantee that the ... Date: 28-01-2019 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views
The FMD diaries: Three weeks to go – 'There's still some nervousness among our staff' ... his staff have been preparing for the introduction of the Falsified Medicines Directive Last week, we introduced a timeline of things that need to be done before the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) deadline because it’s only one of the bits and pieces we’ve got to prepare for. We’ve got the quality payments scheme (QPS) submissions, medicines use review (MUR) submissions and other things like ... Date: 24-01-2019 Categories: • Views
GPhC to judge FMD compliance during premises inspections ... cines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to enforce the directive, which comes into effect on 9 February The MHRA will be responsible for instigating any action enforcing FMD, including issuing enforcement notices or instigating criminal proceedings ‘for the most serious, persistent breaches’. The two bodies will share information if necessary to ensure that ph ... Date: 21-01-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News
The FMD diaries: Four weeks to go – ‘I’m not that confident we’ll be ready on time’ ... t Lee Pharmacy in South East London, reports on how his staff have been preparing for the introduction of the Falsified Medicines Directive With the deadline for the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) – a pan-European set of anti-counterfeiting measures designed to stop the spread of fake medicines – now just weeks away, we’re asking how well prepared UK pharmacists are for implementing the chang ... Date: 14-01-2019 Categories: • Views
The Pharmacist Golden Cross Awards - The Most Hotly Anticipated Award ... f a celebratory glass of something delicious and settle down to find out this year’s lucky recipients. The Most Hotly Anticipated Award Winner –The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) Why did it win? Ah FMD. Preparing for the European-wide anti-counterfeiting measures has got most contractors in something of a tizzy. Despite the fact that the sector has had almost three years to g ... Date: 20-12-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Manchester pharmacy becomes first in UK to comply with FMD A community pharmacy in Greater Manchester has become the first in the UK to comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced. FMD is a pan-European set of anti-counterfeiting measures designed to stop falsified medicines from entering the supply chain. From 9 Febru ... Date: 05-12-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
EXCLUSIVE: FMD a ‘must-have’ for patient safety, experts say The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a ‘must-have’ to ensure patient safety, a panel has heard. In a roundtable on 30 October – organised by The Pharmacist in collaboration with NHS Digital – contractor and Leicester Independent ... Date: 30-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
EXCLUSIVE: FMD could cause delivery delays, wholesalers warn The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) could cause wholesalers delays in delivering medicines to pharmacies. In a roundtable organised by The Pharmacist on 30 October – in collaboration with NHS Digital – Phoenix Medical Supplies and ... Date: 27-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
The Pharmacist podcast: Everything you ever wanted to know about FMD in three minutes The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) will come into force on 9 February 2019 in the UK, as mandated by the European Commission (EC), to tackle counterfeit medicines and improve patient safety. With less than three months to go, are ... Date: 23-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Your Falsified Medicines Directive questions answered The Pharmacist’s recent roundtable sought to answer all your burning questions on the upcoming EU directive. Beth Kennedy reports The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is the issue on every pharmacist’s lips at the moment. With mere months to go until pharmacy teams must be ready to implement it, there are still many unknowns. To help with this, The Pharmacist – ... Date: 23-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Pharmacists express disappointment over funding settlement ... y disappointing’. He said: ‘The [current situation] isn’t sustainable and it’s going to be very painful because of a loss of income, the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) implementation and the on-going prices fluctuations. ‘We’re getting to the point where the pressures on contractors may start to become unbearable.’ Cat M and cashflow concerns Echoing Mr Williams’ comme ... Date: 22-10-2018 Categories: • News
No-deal Brexit would reverse FMD implementation in UK, Government says A no-deal Brexit would put a stop to the the falsified medicines directive (FMD) in the UK, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said. Speaking yesterday (7 October) at the Pharmacy Show in Birmingham, DHSC senior policy manager Claymore Richardson told The Pha ... Date: 08-10-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Harsh FMD sanctions for isolated compliance failures inappropriate, pharmacists say Applying harsh sanctions to community pharmacies that fail to comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) requirements is ‘inappropriate’, pharmacists have said. In its response to a Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator Agency (MHRA) consultation on implementing the FMD, the UK FMD Working Group ... Date: 28-09-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
How the funding cuts have affected me: ‘I took my pension early so I could cut my pay by 60%’ ... of concerns going forward. The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is almost certainly going to result in an increase in the price of medicines that pharmacies pay. Based on the way the current funding system works, it’ll take a number of months before the NHS catches up. ‘So, you’ve got the FMD effect, the Brexit effect, and you’ve also got the cost of generic medicines globally and certainly th ... Date: 13-09-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views
How the stock shortages have affected me: ‘Our staff spend hours on the phone sourcing products’ ... to effectively weather the storms that are coming with Brexit and the falsified medicines directive (FMD). ‘If they want us to be able to keep patients away from A&E and general practice, we can’t do that if we run out of money. For all those reasons, health secretary Matt Hancock needs to honour his word and start investing more money in the sector.’ Date: 10-09-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views
Simon Dukes: ‘PSNC has served pharmacy extremely well over the years and I hope to continue that tradition’ ... shortages could get worse over the coming months? We’ve got Brexit and the falsified medicines directive (FMD) coming up – how do you think those could affect the supply chain? Clearly, these are going to be big challenges. We’re working with the DHSC and the Government more generally on some of the Brexit challenges in particular and clearly we’ve formed our own Brexit panel here where not only t ... Date: 03-09-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Only one third pharma companies FMD-compliant six months away from implementation deadline ... the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) in less than six months, only 841 (36%) have signed the required agreement. The EMVO was set up to implement the Falsified Medicine Directive (FMD), which will come into force on 9 February 2019 in the UK as mandated by the European Commission (EU), to tackle counterfeit medicines and improve patient safety. Under the directive, all packs of pr ... Date: 14-08-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
What’s the true impact of stock shortages? ... he supply chain and other factors, such as the forthcoming Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Brexit, it’s impossible to tell for how much longer these severe shortages will pose a problem for contractors and patients alike. While we at The Pharmacist will march on with our #WarOnShortages campaign to bring you all the latest information, it’s important for pharmacists to take action as well t ... Date: 10-08-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Brexit uncertainties: Contractors need to carefully choose FMD system, NPA urges Due to Brexit uncertainties, community pharmacies need to ‘carefully consider which Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) systems they choose’, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has said. FMD is a series of European anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan medicine products to verify ... Date: 02-08-2018 Categories: • News
EXCLUSIVE: ‘No intention at this time’ to assess FMD impact on community pharmacy, says MHRA The UK’s medicines watchdog has said it has ‘no intention at this time’ to publish an impact assessment on how the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) will affect community pharmacies. The FMD is a series of anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan packs of medication before they are dispensed to verify their authenticity. It will ... Date: 20-07-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News
Women in pharmacy: GP pharmacist Hala Jawad ... eriencing its most challenging times due to medicines shortages, the funding cuts, workforce pressures, category M reductions, preparations for the Falsified Medicine Directive (FMD) and increasing demands, to name a few. It’s important to work cohesively with the different healthcare sectors, look at innovation to help us deliver and exert pressure on the Government to invest more in pharmacy. ... Date: 09-07-2018 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views

‘Weekend warrior’ exercisers can achieve good cardiovascular benefits Lack of time is often cited as a barrier to undertaking physical activity, so can squeezing exercise into just one to two days a week still provide comparable cardiovascular benefits to a more evenly dis ... Date: 22-09-2023 Categories: • Cardiovascular

Northern Ireland Protocol: will increased bureaucracy threaten medicines supply? ... Stout told the House of Lords that the biggest single factor causing additional paperwork was the falsified medicines directive (FMD), which requires additional packaging and other measures for medicines in Northern Ireland. ‘If we were to look to one single solution, or one fundamental solution would be to remove Northern Ireland’s requirements of FMD to solve the huge amount of problems that ar ... Date: 26-01-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News

Scottish pharmacy leaders commit to disability culture change Pharmacy and pharmacy technician leaders from across Scotland have committed to a series of outcomes to support people with disabilities, including considering how flexible working could be offered routi ... Date: 30-11-2022 Categories: • News

Brexit: Pharmacists and GPs should work together to prevent patients ordering extra medicines Pharmacists and GPs are being encouraged to reassure patients that they do not need to order extra medication as the Brexit transition period nears its end. In a joint statement published yesterday ( ... Date: 18-12-2020 Categories: • News

Half of LPCs worried pharmacies will be blamed for supply problems after Brexit Local pharmaceutical committees (LPCs) have expressed concern about the impact the UK’s exit from the European Union will have on pharmacies in England. Half (50%) of LPCs that responded to a PSNC po ... Date: 19-11-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Brexit: Pharmacies will not have to verify prescription medicine packs from next year ... n prescription medicine packs after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December. This comes as the three devolved nations are due to be disconnected from the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) - the pan-European set of anti-counterfeiting measures designed to stop the spread of fake medicines across Europe. The UK FMD working group confirmed in a statement yesterday (16 November) that ... Date: 17-11-2020 Categories: • News

RPS: Immediate action needed to stop fake medicines entering UK after Brexit ... medicines moving between the EU and the UK. Under current plans to leave the EU at the end of December, the UK will no longer benefit from the safeguards of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), which could leave it vulnerable to ‘an influx of counterfeit medicines’, RPS said. Sandra Gidley, RPS president, said it was ‘unacceptable’ that a plan had not been put in place, despite the UK bein ... Date: 13-10-2020 Categories: • News

MHRA recalls seizure medicines over concerns supply chain ‘may have been compromised’ The medicines watchdog is recalling several batches of medicines used to treat seizures and Parkinson’s disease, over concerns the supply chain may have been compromised. The Medicines and Healthcare ... Date: 18-09-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News

Why 2020 must be a year of stability for community pharmacy ... an for how to deal with the impact Brexit could have on your business (impossible during last year's interminable see-sawing and delays) is at least in sight. Take the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), for example. The threat of a no-deal Brexit, which loomed so heavily over much for last year, is now much more unlikely given that Boris Johnson's deal with the EU has a higher chance of getting th ... Date: 03-01-2020 Categories: • Community • Views

Revealed: One in four UK pharmacies not signed up for FMD six months after deadline One in four UK pharmacies are not yet registered with the UK’s central Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) hub six months after the implementation deadline, The Pharmacist has learned. The directive, which came into force on 9 February, is a pan-European regulation that requires pharmacies to decommissi ... Date: 04-09-2019 Categories: • News

FMD alert: More than 60 batches of medication recalled after leaving supply chain ... the recalled batches. Patients are advised to continue taking their medicines and contact their GP practice to arrange a new prescription. The EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a set of pan-European anti-counterfeiting measures that came into force on 9 February. The affected batches can be viewed here. Date: 28-06-2019 Categories: • News

NPA calls for pharmacy contract to 'be fair to independents' The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has called for the upcoming English pharmacy contract to ‘be fair to independent pharmacies’. In a statement published yesterday (11 June) the lobbying group ur ... Date: 12-06-2019 Categories: • News

Funding cuts to blame for pharmacy sales downturn, say accountants Government cuts to funding have slowed down the market for pharmacy premises by almost a quarter in just a year, a national accountancy firm has said. According to UHY Hacker Young, UK 760 pharmacies ... Date: 03-06-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

PHE ‘not yet issuing’ FMD-compliant vaccination stock Public Health England (PHE) are still ‘not yet issuing’ vaccination stock that complies with the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). The directive, which came into force on 9 February, is a pan-European regulation that requires pharmacies to decommission and verify the authenticity of medicines using barcode scanning software bef ... Date: 02-05-2019 Categories: • News

Community pharmacists must make sure they are in the know if they are to survive Information is power, so pharmacists must make sure that they keep abreast with changes to the profession, says The Pharmacist's editor-in-chief Beth Kennedy Is it just me, or has there been a feeling o ... Date: 01-05-2019 Categories: • Community • Views

PSNC predicts tough talks on reimbursement as contract negotiations kick off ... C outlined its wishlist for the upcoming contract, including a multi-year funding deal and 'recognition' for the investment pharmacists have made into implementing the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). Date: 09-04-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

Pharmacy bodies pay tribute to Steve Brine as minister resigns over Brexit Pharmacy bodies have paid tribute to Winchester MP Steve Brine after he stepped down from his pharmacy minister role over Brexit. Mr Brine resigned as Parliamentary under secretary of state at the Dep ... Date: 26-03-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

My views on unannounced inspections: ‘A mystery patient would have been a better approach' ... jani Superintendent pharmacist at Wainwrights Chemist, Hampshire ‘We’re overwhelmed at the moment and workload stress is at an all-time high because of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), Brexit, medicine shortages, cuts – so the changes couldn’t have come at a worse time. We need to make sure all our resources go into patient safety and staff efficiency and anything that takes us away from ... Date: 13-03-2019 Categories: • Community • Views

Category M prices to rise £10m per month while community pharmacy contract remains unchanged Community pharmacy funding will stay at the current levels from April until the end of negotiations between the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) and the Government. The interim arr ... Date: 08-03-2019 Categories: • Analysis • Latest News • News

‘Checking monkeys’? The pressures of community pharmacy have chained me to the dispensing bench Working in the sector is hard enough without GP pharmacists denigrating it, writes an anonymous community pharmacist I’m a ‘checking monkey’ and I’m not proud. Though less of the ‘unscrupulo ... Date: 01-03-2019 Categories: • Views

Multi-year funding, FMD ‘recognition’ and timely EPS payments: PSNC outlines contract 2019/20 wishlist ... and plan and deal with your businesses accordingly’. PSNC will also seek ‘recognition’ for the sector implementing the anti-counterfeiting measures the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) – which has seen contractors buying barcode scanning equipment out of their own pockets – Mr Dent told delegates. If Britain leaves the European Union without a deal at the end of March, FMD will legally have to ... Date: 18-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

Revealed: Less than half of pharmacies are registered with central UK FMD hub Less than half of community pharmacies are registered with the UK’s central Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) hub, The Pharmacist has learned. Just over 6,000 (6,288) of around 14,000 UK pharmacies are fully registered with SecurMed, according to weekly statistics posted on its website on Tuesday (12 Febru ... Date: 14-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

EXCLUSIVE: Continue FMD preparations ‘with appropriate caution’ due to no-deal Brexit fears, warns NHS England Fears that the UK is heading towards a no-deal Brexit mean pharmacists should continue preparing for the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) ‘with appropriate caution’, NHS England has warned. The directive, which came into force last Saturday (9 February), is a pan-European regulation that requires pharmacies to decommission and veri ... Date: 13-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

The FMD diaries: Week one – ‘It’s going to be another week before we can start decommissioning medicines’ ... ng session but that hasn’t happened yet. The staff are still feeling the same way they were last week, it’s all very uncertain. FMD is just one of the deadlines we’ve got at the moment. We’ve got another deadline for quality payments that every single pharmacy needs to be doing, as well as audits and other deadlines, and they’re all as equally important as each other. This isn’t the only worry ... Date: 12-02-2019 Categories: • Views

Manufacturers: no-deal Brexit would be 'a travesty' due to revoked FMD system Medicines manufacturers have warned that a no-deal Brexit ‘makes no sense’ because the UK would no longer be a part of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). The Europe-wide anti-counterfeiting legislation, due to come into force this weekend (9 February) will see everyone in the supply chain - from manufacturers and retailers, to pharmacies, GPs and hos ... Date: 08-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

Dispense most medicines even if FMD software flags potential problem, NPA advises Most medicines can still be dispensed even if they return an alert from the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) database, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has advised. The FMD is a series of European anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan packs of medication to very their authen ... Date: 08-02-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

The FMD diaries: One week to go – ‘I'm less anxious as the deadline approaches' Al Patel, contractor at Lee Pharmacy in south east London, reports on how his staff have been preparing for the introduction of the Falsified Medicines Directive It’s the final week before the FMD deadline and we’ve done everything we can to prepare. Last week there were two main developments. First, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) cleared up the confusion abou ... Date: 05-02-2019 Categories: • Views

The FMD diaries: Two weeks to go – ‘Our barcode scanners still haven’t arrived’ ... the bread – so there seem to be some strange goings on out there. With regards to Brexit, obviously pharmacies will have no legal obligation to implement the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) if there is a ‘no-deal’. Last year David Davis said that there will be a fixed implementation period of [I think] 21 months, I’m not sure whether that still applies, but I know the Medicines and Healthcare ... Date: 30-01-2019 Categories: • Views

Pharmacists should be FMD compliant in time for deadline despite packaging delays, working group warns Pharmacists must work towards full compliance with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) deadline despite implementation delays in the supply chain, pharmacy bodies have said. The UK FMD working group for community pharmacy said there will be a ‘significant quantities’ of medicines w ... Date: 30-01-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

My views on Brexit: ‘Pharmacists could get blamed by patients for not stockpiling medication’ ... of international talent coming into the UK.’ ‘Less flexibility’ ‘This is all happening at the same time as the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is coming in. Although the British Government and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are insisting that FMD will still happen even if we do leave the EU [without a deal], there’s no guarantee that the ... Date: 28-01-2019 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views

The FMD diaries: Three weeks to go – 'There's still some nervousness among our staff' ... his staff have been preparing for the introduction of the Falsified Medicines Directive Last week, we introduced a timeline of things that need to be done before the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) deadline because it’s only one of the bits and pieces we’ve got to prepare for. We’ve got the quality payments scheme (QPS) submissions, medicines use review (MUR) submissions and other things like ... Date: 24-01-2019 Categories: • Views

GPhC to judge FMD compliance during premises inspections ... cines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to enforce the directive, which comes into effect on 9 February The MHRA will be responsible for instigating any action enforcing FMD, including issuing enforcement notices or instigating criminal proceedings ‘for the most serious, persistent breaches’. The two bodies will share information if necessary to ensure that ph ... Date: 21-01-2019 Categories: • Latest News • News

The FMD diaries: Four weeks to go – ‘I’m not that confident we’ll be ready on time’ ... t Lee Pharmacy in South East London, reports on how his staff have been preparing for the introduction of the Falsified Medicines Directive With the deadline for the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) – a pan-European set of anti-counterfeiting measures designed to stop the spread of fake medicines – now just weeks away, we’re asking how well prepared UK pharmacists are for implementing the chang ... Date: 14-01-2019 Categories: • Views

The Pharmacist Golden Cross Awards - The Most Hotly Anticipated Award ... f a celebratory glass of something delicious and settle down to find out this year’s lucky recipients. The Most Hotly Anticipated Award Winner –The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) Why did it win? Ah FMD. Preparing for the European-wide anti-counterfeiting measures has got most contractors in something of a tizzy. Despite the fact that the sector has had almost three years to g ... Date: 20-12-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Manchester pharmacy becomes first in UK to comply with FMD A community pharmacy in Greater Manchester has become the first in the UK to comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced. FMD is a pan-European set of anti-counterfeiting measures designed to stop falsified medicines from entering the supply chain. From 9 Febru ... Date: 05-12-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

EXCLUSIVE: FMD a ‘must-have’ for patient safety, experts say The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a ‘must-have’ to ensure patient safety, a panel has heard. In a roundtable on 30 October – organised by The Pharmacist in collaboration with NHS Digital – contractor and Leicester Independent ... Date: 30-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

EXCLUSIVE: FMD could cause delivery delays, wholesalers warn The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) could cause wholesalers delays in delivering medicines to pharmacies. In a roundtable organised by The Pharmacist on 30 October – in collaboration with NHS Digital – Phoenix Medical Supplies and ... Date: 27-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

The Pharmacist podcast: Everything you ever wanted to know about FMD in three minutes The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) will come into force on 9 February 2019 in the UK, as mandated by the European Commission (EC), to tackle counterfeit medicines and improve patient safety. With less than three months to go, are ... Date: 23-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Your Falsified Medicines Directive questions answered The Pharmacist’s recent roundtable sought to answer all your burning questions on the upcoming EU directive. Beth Kennedy reports The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is the issue on every pharmacist’s lips at the moment. With mere months to go until pharmacy teams must be ready to implement it, there are still many unknowns. To help with this, The Pharmacist – ... Date: 23-11-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Pharmacists express disappointment over funding settlement ... y disappointing’. He said: ‘The [current situation] isn’t sustainable and it’s going to be very painful because of a loss of income, the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) implementation and the on-going prices fluctuations. ‘We’re getting to the point where the pressures on contractors may start to become unbearable.’ Cat M and cashflow concerns Echoing Mr Williams’ comme ... Date: 22-10-2018 Categories: • News

No-deal Brexit would reverse FMD implementation in UK, Government says A no-deal Brexit would put a stop to the the falsified medicines directive (FMD) in the UK, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said. Speaking yesterday (7 October) at the Pharmacy Show in Birmingham, DHSC senior policy manager Claymore Richardson told The Pha ... Date: 08-10-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Harsh FMD sanctions for isolated compliance failures inappropriate, pharmacists say Applying harsh sanctions to community pharmacies that fail to comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) requirements is ‘inappropriate’, pharmacists have said. In its response to a Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator Agency (MHRA) consultation on implementing the FMD, the UK FMD Working Group ... Date: 28-09-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

How the funding cuts have affected me: ‘I took my pension early so I could cut my pay by 60%’ ... of concerns going forward. The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is almost certainly going to result in an increase in the price of medicines that pharmacies pay. Based on the way the current funding system works, it’ll take a number of months before the NHS catches up. ‘So, you’ve got the FMD effect, the Brexit effect, and you’ve also got the cost of generic medicines globally and certainly th ... Date: 13-09-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views

How the stock shortages have affected me: ‘Our staff spend hours on the phone sourcing products’ ... to effectively weather the storms that are coming with Brexit and the falsified medicines directive (FMD). ‘If they want us to be able to keep patients away from A&E and general practice, we can’t do that if we run out of money. For all those reasons, health secretary Matt Hancock needs to honour his word and start investing more money in the sector.’ Date: 10-09-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views

Simon Dukes: ‘PSNC has served pharmacy extremely well over the years and I hope to continue that tradition’ ... shortages could get worse over the coming months? We’ve got Brexit and the falsified medicines directive (FMD) coming up – how do you think those could affect the supply chain? Clearly, these are going to be big challenges. We’re working with the DHSC and the Government more generally on some of the Brexit challenges in particular and clearly we’ve formed our own Brexit panel here where not only t ... Date: 03-09-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Only one third pharma companies FMD-compliant six months away from implementation deadline ... the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) in less than six months, only 841 (36%) have signed the required agreement. The EMVO was set up to implement the Falsified Medicine Directive (FMD), which will come into force on 9 February 2019 in the UK as mandated by the European Commission (EU), to tackle counterfeit medicines and improve patient safety. Under the directive, all packs of pr ... Date: 14-08-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

What’s the true impact of stock shortages? ... he supply chain and other factors, such as the forthcoming Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Brexit, it’s impossible to tell for how much longer these severe shortages will pose a problem for contractors and patients alike. While we at The Pharmacist will march on with our #WarOnShortages campaign to bring you all the latest information, it’s important for pharmacists to take action as well t ... Date: 10-08-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Brexit uncertainties: Contractors need to carefully choose FMD system, NPA urges Due to Brexit uncertainties, community pharmacies need to ‘carefully consider which Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) systems they choose’, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has said. FMD is a series of European anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan medicine products to verify ... Date: 02-08-2018 Categories: • News

EXCLUSIVE: ‘No intention at this time’ to assess FMD impact on community pharmacy, says MHRA The UK’s medicines watchdog has said it has ‘no intention at this time’ to publish an impact assessment on how the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) will affect community pharmacies. The FMD is a series of anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan packs of medication before they are dispensed to verify their authenticity. It will ... Date: 20-07-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News

Women in pharmacy: GP pharmacist Hala Jawad ... eriencing its most challenging times due to medicines shortages, the funding cuts, workforce pressures, category M reductions, preparations for the Falsified Medicine Directive (FMD) and increasing demands, to name a few. It’s important to work cohesively with the different healthcare sectors, look at innovation to help us deliver and exert pressure on the Government to invest more in pharmacy. ... Date: 09-07-2018 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views

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