The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7295 p464
17 April 2004

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UniChem develops standard operating procedures template

Pharmacists will be able to develop their own standard operating procedures using a CD-ROM template launched this week by UniChem.

The company says that the template will help pharmacists to achieve the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s requirement for all pharmacies to have SOPs in place by 2005.

Alistair Marsh, general manager of Pharmacy Alliance, UniChem’s medicines management division, commented: “Many pharmacists greeted the Society’s request on SOPs with, at least, partial gloom, dreading the implementation of yet another procedure in their busy business lives.” UniChem says that the CD-Rom was developed in response to this, and that it provides the tools needed to tailor SOPs at an individual, local level. The CD-ROM is available to all UniChem customers free of charge.