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By Kevin Frost
wholesale dealers trying to obtain stocks of medicines from registered
pharmacies by way of wholesale.
Pharmacists should be aware that the holder of a wholesale dealer’s licence
may only obtain supplies of medicines from either:
a) a manufacturer’s licence holder or a wholesale dealer’s licence holder;
or
b) a person authorised by another EEA State to manufacture or distribute
medicines by way of wholesale dealing.1
This prevents a wholesaler dealer buying medicines, by way of wholesale,
from a registered pharmacy.
Section 1.2.5 (“Wholesale Dealing”) of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice
guide, 32nd edition, outlines the person(s) and organisation(s) a registered
pharmacy may wholesale medicines to under the Medicines Act 1968. Point
“d” allows a registered pharmacy to wholesale to “holders of a wholesale
dealer’s licence”. This does not take into account the above regulations and
therefore a pharmacy should not wholesale medicines to a holder of a
wholesale dealer’s licence.
1 Regulation 9 of the Medicines for Human Use (Manufacturing, Wholesale Dealing and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005.
The instruction in Section 1.2.5 (“Wholesale Dealing”) of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice guide, 32nd edition has now been superceeded by Regulation 9 of the Medicines for Human Use (Manufacturing, Wholesale Dealing and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005. Consequently the holders of a wholesaler's licence may only obtain supplies of medicines from either:
a) a manufacturer’s licence holder or a wholesale dealer’s licence holder;
or
b) a person authorised by another EEA State to manufacture or distribute
medicines by way of wholesale dealing.
and not, by way of wholesale, from a registered pharmacy.
I'm not the best at English. I can get a point across, but am forever indebted to a few colleagues at my hospital that enhance my grammar and spelling. My written prose always says what I want it to mean, just not quite as clear as I would like it to.
Still I doubt I would ever publish something as impenetrable as:
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has recently been made aware of licensedwholesale dealers trying to obtain stocks of medicines from registered
pharmacies by way of wholesale.
Pharmacists should be aware that the holder of a wholesale dealer’s licence
may only obtain supplies of medicines from either:
a) a manufacturer’s licence holder or a wholesale dealer’s licence holder;
or
b) a person authorised by another EEA State to manufacture or distribute
medicines by way of wholesale dealing.1
This prevents a wholesaler dealer buying medicines, by way of wholesale,
from a registered pharmacy.
Section 1.2.5 (“Wholesale Dealing”) of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice
guide, 32nd edition, outlines the person(s) and organisation(s) a registered
pharmacy may wholesale medicines to under the Medicines Act 1968. Point
“d” allows a registered pharmacy to wholesale to “holders of a wholesale
dealer’s licence”. This does not take into account the above regulations and
therefore a pharmacy should not wholesale medicines to a holder of a
wholesale dealer’s licence.
1 Regulation 9 of the Medicines for Human Use (Manufacturing, Wholesale Dealing and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005.
This is a law and ethics bulletin that's available online (in better formating) at http://www.rpsgb.org/pdfs/LEBwholemed.pdf , but I found in the 23rd August PJ (Shame you can't get Journals online as you used to...)
I like sudoku and other mind puzzles, so I decided to tackle the hidden meaning of this. Admittedly this is not my sector, so I don't benefit and alas it won't count as CPD - but am I right in thinking that the above could just be rewritten as:
RPSGB is aware that wholesalers are attempting to breach a new regulation by purchasing drugs wholesale from community pharmacies. This is now illegal.The instruction in Section 1.2.5 (“Wholesale Dealing”) of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice guide, 32nd edition has now been superceeded by Regulation 9 of the Medicines for Human Use (Manufacturing, Wholesale Dealing and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005. Consequently the holders of a wholesaler's licence may only obtain supplies of medicines from either:
a) a manufacturer’s licence holder or a wholesale dealer’s licence holder;
or
b) a person authorised by another EEA State to manufacture or distribute
medicines by way of wholesale dealing.
and not, by way of wholesale, from a registered pharmacy.
Or am I just being obtuse?
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P.S. Following on from my last post, apparently I have ONE reader. Hello there!
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