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Before & After: Pharmacy’s Digital Revolution

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The Digital Revolution in numbers: 721 million UK Prescriptions Dispensed in 2005 (Pharmaceutical Journal). billion UK Prescriptions Dispensed in 2022 ( NHSBSA ). 34.7million views of our Google Adverts for pharmacies since 2021. 56 UK Online Pharmacies in 2008/9 ( Statista ). It was a simpler time, but it had its limitations.

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Essential elements of a strong, global medicines supply chain

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Quality standards and related tools – supported by appropriate regulatory capability and enforcement – can help promote quality across the pharmaceutical product lifecycle, from the sourcing of active and inactive ingredients to packaging, labeling, distribution, and point-of-care administration.

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World Standards Day: Recognizing How Standards Enable a Strong Medicines Supply Chain

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can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should. There are also related standards that address a wide range of topics such as packaging, storage and distribution of medicines, the preparation of compounded medicines and prescription labeling.