Showing posts with label New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy Meeting March 27, 2013


March Board Meeting - Schedule Change
 
The Board's March monthly meeting for regular Board business is being held 1 week later than the usual third Wednesday of the month - it is now scheduled forWednesday, March 27, 2013 at 9:00 A.M. The Board will be utilizing the original March 20th date to work solely on drafting new administrative rules.

Source found here

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Reminder re: NH State Board of Pharmacy Board Meeting Today, January 16, 2013

January Board Meeting - Public Hearing On Proposed Rules
 
The Board's January Monthly Meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at the Board Office, 57 Regional Drive, Concord, NH. View the Agenda. The public session of the meeting commences at 9:00 A.M. and a public comments hearing on proposed rules will be held during the meeting.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

NH Board of Pharmacy Meeting Tomorrow to Include Compounding Topics

Public Session

1. Minutes of 12/12/2012 - Public Board Meeting

2. Minutes of 1/9/2013 - Emergency Meeting

3. Executive Secretary's Report

4. Compliance Report

5. Public Comment Hearing (Ph 501, 702.05, 704.01,704.04 & 704.11) - 9 AM to 12 Noon

6. Convenient Med Care 9:00 AM

7. David Merriman, R.Ph. - Wentworth Douglass - Waiver - PowerPoint Presentation

8. Ratification of CEAC Approval

9. Hearing 1:00 PM - Brittany Bertone - Pharmacy Technician # PT7394

10. Ph 800

11. Gray Market

12. Mary Donatelli - Reciprocity Application

13. Bejamin Sturm - Score Transfer Application

14. Pharmerica - Installation of RxNow

15. Foundation Care - Waiver Request

16. Richard Legere - 2013 Pharmacist Renewal Application

17. Robert Martel - 2013 Pharmacist Renewal Application

18. Annual Collection - Board Member Driver's License / Auto Ins. & Disclosure Statements

19. CEAC - Program Approval - NADDI (Peter Grasso)

20. Ratification of CEAC Approval of NEPC (Gary Merchant) - In-state Provider of Continuing Education

21. Massachusetts - New Regulations - Compounding Pharmacies

22. Pharmacy Specialists Compounding Pharmacy - Waiver request

23. License Approval

24. FYI's


Saturday, December 29, 2012

Reminder: Mandatory Survey of all NH Licensed / Registered in-State & Non-Resident Pharmacies Regarding Compounding Are Due Immediately


All NH licensed in-state pharmacies and all registered non-resident / mail-order pharmacies are required to submit responses to an online survey regarding compounding practices. The survey can be started by clicking here - you will need to enter your pharmacy's NH license / registration number to complete the survey. Notices regarding this mandatory survey were mailed out to all registered non-resident pharmacies and faxed to all licensed in-state pharmacies on Monday, December 10th. The deadline for answering the survey was Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - if you have not yet responded to the survey, please do so immediately. Pharmacies / pharmacists-in-charge that fail to respond to this mandatory survey are subject to disciplinary action by the Board.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Proposed Rules in NH


Proposed Rules


The Board of Pharmacy is currently in the process of updating the rules below. A public comment hearing will be held on January 16, 2013 at 9:00 A.M. If you are not able to attend the hearing, you may submit your testimony/comments on the proposed rules by sending an email to the Board.
Source found by clicking here

NH Board of Pharmacy December 12, 2012 Meeting Minutes


addressing compounding:

7. Compounding Advisory Committee Recommendations
No public announced decision regarding the work of Compounding Advisory
Council but an initial report was submitted which included recommendation for the
Board
o Adopt rules requiring compliance with USP standards Chapter 795 (nonsterile)
and Chapter 797 (sterile) compounding.
o Expand the members of the committee to include more diversity in
compounding and add Board members

To view entire minutes click here

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Compounding Pharmacists In New Hampshire Brace For Change

 

About 20 years ago, Bob Vecchiotti developed something called foot neuropathy. It’s a neurological condition that left his feet numb. Sometimes they would tingle or burn.
“But then the pain was getting to the point that I was losing concentration and sleep, and I decided we need to do more,” says Vecchiotti. “That’s when my primary care physician, working with a compound pharmacist, was able to come up with something that worked.”
Vecchiotti is a business consultant in Peterborough. He was somewhat skeptical of compounding.
“When the physician first mentioned a compound pharmacist, I went, ‘what?’ I was thinking of potions…of brews that people concoct.”
It actually is kind of like that at Bedford Pharmacy, where pharmacist Ron Petrin has been compounding prescriptions for 30 years. This is where you come when you need a medicine flavored for a child, or a dosage fine-tuned to your individual needs.
Unlike what was happening at the troubled New England Compounding Center, there is no mass production taking place here.
“They were making incredibly large volumes of stuff for distribution throughout the country,” says Petrin. “That’s not the function of a community compounding pharmacy.”
Petrin says--and regulators agree--that NECC was acting more like a drug manufacturer than a compounder. That distinction is important, because it changes how you get regulated. 
Right now, it’s up to each state’s Board of Pharmacy to oversee compounders. It’s the job of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to inspect the larger manufacturers.
But where do you draw the line between the two? Is it 6 pills, or 6,000?
“It is a fine line to draw, and I think individual Boards of Pharmacy have to decide how to handle that,” says Petrin.


He says the pharmacy world is so small in New Hampshire that there aren’t companies like NECC trying to pass themselves off as a compounder.
The problem is: out-of-state compounders can sell their products in New Hampshire.
The NH Board of Pharmacy grants them what’s called a ‘non-resident’ license. If they can prove that they have good standing in their home-state, they can sell their products to doctor’s offices here in New Hampshire.
Drug shortages have helped spur more inter-state business.
But what’s come out of the NECC outbreak is that not all states regulate their compounders as closely as New Hampshire regulates its own.
That’s led to calls for more FDA oversight of the industry, and legislative hearings in Washington.
But a lobbying group for compounders bristles at the idea of expanded federal oversight instead of state-level inspections.
“People who are in this profession and doing a good job, want inspection,” says IACP spokesman David Ball. “They want to be visited by state inspectors. They want good, clear consistent regulations, so there really is no issue there with making sure there’s adequate regulatory authority. Of course, what’s equally important is enforcement of authority.”
It’s that enforcement piece that Ball says needs to be stricter.
But that can be difficult for cash-strapped states. Recent budget cuts to New Hampshire’s Board of Pharmacy meant some compliance officers were laid off. There are now only two employees left to regulate the roughly 300 pharmacies and compounders in the state.
They don’t have the time or resources to also inspect out-of-state compounders.
So the Board of Pharmacy created a Task Force to look for ways the state can beef up its regulation of non-resident producers.
At Wednesday’s Board of Pharmacy meeting, they offered some ideas:
Mandate that out-of-state pharmacies prove they’ve been inspected recently. Or limit what they sell in New Hampshire to prescriptions only—not medications for use in doctor’s offices.  That’s how NECC products were distributed.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

New Hampshire Compounding Advisory Committee Reporting During November Pharmacy Board Meeting

To see agenda click here.  If any readers who attended would like to report on the meeting, it would be appreciated.

New Hampshire Agreed to Approved Settlement with NECC

To view the minutes from that August meeting click here, from a confidential suspension which was probably NECC in September click here and in October where settlement was approved for NECC click here

Sunday, November 11, 2012

NH State Board of Pharmacy Meeting 11/14/2012: Compounding Pharmacy Advisory Committee is on Agenda


Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
9:00 A.M.
1. Minutes of 10/17 - Public Board Meeting
2. Minutes of 10/31 - Emergency Teleconference (Moved to Non-Public - Item B –
Pending Notification of Licensees, at which time action will be made Public)
3. Executive Secretary's Report
4. Compliance Report
5. Hannaford Pharmacy- Meredith (New Pharmacy Application)
6. Compounding Pharmacy Advisory Committee
7. Richard Fortier – Omnicare of NH - Pharmacy Remodel
8. Elizabeth Toabe - Pharmacist Application - Review
9. Ph 800 - Proposed Rules
10. Ph 1300 - Approve Minor Grammatical Changes
11. Review of 3 Non-Resident Pharmacy Applications
12. FYI's

To see source click here

Saturday, September 8, 2012

New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy Takes Letter From AVMA Letter Under Advisement

During August 15, 2012, New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy meeting, the board took under advisement the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Letter to Board President
Manoukian.   See agenda here.  It appears that these letters from the AVMA went out to a number if not all the state boards of pharmacy.