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Wholesalers: Supply could come under unprecedented pressure in 2020

The year 2020 will see continued pressures on the UK’s medicines supply chain – they have become the ‘new normal’. The immediate no-deal Brexit...

21/01/2020 6

Wholesaler body: MHRA must tackle rogue dealers to stop shortages

Hardly a day goes by without the reported shortage of a medicine – and rightly so. For one patient to have to wait to receive their medication is one...

04/10/2019 4

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Wholesalers to visit pharmacies to explain medicine supply disruption

Wholesalers “take very seriously any disruption to the supply of medicines”, but “are not always able to fulfill all orders in full that they receive...

01/10/2019 10

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Wholesaler body proposes shortages information scheme to rebuild trust

Community pharmacies in particular would benefit from a tailored service that shows which medicines are experiencing supply disruptions, why, and...

27/02/2019 2

Martin Sawer: Community pharmacy is doing a good job when it comes to the FMD

10,000 pharmacies expected to be FMD compliant by end of month

The EU’s anti-counterfeit legislation, the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) – which came into force on February 9 – requires all pharmacies to be...

22/02/2019 4

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Martin Sawer: Healthcare representatives should face medicines supply "flashpoints" together

Pharmacy needs ‘Cobra’ meetings to handle no-deal Brexit shortages

The “daily war room” meetings could share information from across the supply chain, with the aim of preventing shortages, Healthcare Distribution...

21/12/2018 2

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HDA: Members handle more than 90% of NHS medicines but only represent 20 out of 2,100 licences

Large wholesalers deny culpability for unexplained generic price hikes

A National Audit Office (NAO) investigation last week (June 8) into generics prices referred to government evidence of “unexpected increases in...

13/06/2018 3

Martin Sawer: GPhC and MHRA will decide "movements in pharmacy" after consultation published

Assessment of medicine scanning law delayed by election

Under the falsified medicines directive (FMD), all community pharmacies in the UK will have to scan medicines at the point of dispensing by February...

22/05/2017 7