Tony Garlick BAPW Technical Director

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Tony GarlickBAPW Technical Director

• Member of GIRP Executive
• and Technical Committee

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Full Line Wholesaler

• Operating from 52 warehouses delivering twice
  daily to retail pharmacy, hospitals and
  dispensing doctors
• 235,000 deliveries per weekDistributing 2
  billion items per year
• Availability of product 365 days per year
• Out of Hours Emergency Service

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The Role of the Full Line Wholesaler

• To safeguard public health by ensuring that all
  medicines on the market meet appropriate
  standards of safety, quality and efficacy.
• Safety aspects cover potential or actual harmful
  effects quality relates to development and
  manufacture and efficacy is a measure of the
  beneficial effect of the medicine on patients

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WholesalersA Typical Full Line Warehouse
1,600 Lines 80 Sales 2,700 Lines 90
Sales 5,000 Lines 2 Sales Stock holding
value 2million 2,000 Lines .107 Sales 1,000
Lines .023 Sales
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Ensuring the Quality of Medicines

• MHRA Good Distribution Practice is that part of
  quality assurance which ensure that products are
  consistently stored, transported and handled
  under suitable conditions as required by the
  marketing authorisation or product specification

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Ensuring the Quality of Medicines

• The holder of a marketing authorisation for a
  medicinal product and the distributors of the
  said medicinal product in a Member state shall,
  within the limits of their responsibilities,
  ensure appropriate supplies of that medicinal
  product so that the needs of patients in the
  Member State in question are covered.
• The arrangements for implementing this Article
  should, moreover, be justified on grounds of
  public health protection and be proportional in
  relation to the objective of such protection, in
  compliance with the Treaty rules, particularly
  those covering the free movement of goods and
  competition. Article 82 (1)

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Distribution

• Number of deliveries
• Out-of-hours
• Schedule deliveries
• Vehicle use and type
• Tote boxes reusable
• Security
• D.T.P.

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Packaging Waste

• Reduction in the use of shrinkwrap
• Stock holding
• Dated stock
• Short-dated, unused, or out-of-date
• International Health Partners

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Warehouse

• Temperature control
• Cold chain
• Power failure
• Hazardous waste incineration

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Returns

• 3 of sales
• Ordered in error
• Fax orders
• Electronic orders
• Excess prescribing

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Thank you for listening!

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