How do internet pharmacies check patient identity online?
How do your staff check the id and capacity of the patient ordering medicines on your website? This is the first question the GPhC ask in their GPhC voluntary logo…
How long does it take to start a distance selling pharmacy?
The quickest it can be done is around 3 months. However, this fully depends on the bottlenecks of the process. The first thing that needs to be decided is whether…
Algorithmic asynchronous prescribing relative risk formulary
The range of medicine available online is increasing every day. However what is to stop any medicine from being prescribed online. Medical ethics should prove the initial barrier however when…
Algorithmic pharmacy only relative risk formulary
How do you decide which medicines are appropriate to supply over the internet? There are a wide range of pharmacy-only products, unlike prescription-only medicines this restricted category of medicines does…
Online Prescribing Legislation
Medicine unlike many other professions is regulated on a national basis. Where other professions such as finance or logistics run on internationally agreed standards medicine does not. In this section,…
Online Prescribing Risk Matrix
How do you decide which medicines are appropriate to supply over the internet? High-Risk Medicines (HRMs) can be defined as “medicines that are most likely to cause significant harm to…
Online Prescribing Damage Mitigation
Prescription drugs can come with a host of side effects that can be bothersome and even dangerous. Nearly all medications are made up of tiny molecules, which are smaller than…
Online Prescribing Best Practice
Key Points Many prescribers are now undertaking duties and procedures that were previously done by doctors.If a non-medical prescriber takes on a task that was previously undertaken by a medical…
Online Prescribing Pharmacist UK
The GPhC has recently initiated a significant rise in enforcement actions against pharmacist prescribers connected to specific categories of online prescription services. We are aware of at least 6 pharmacists…
Pharmacy Cybersecurity Standard Operating Procedure
Pharmacy Cybersecurity Standard Operating Procedure Recently cybersecurity has become a hot topic within the pharmacy sector. As such, as we intend to be responsive to any new emerging threat to…