Guidance

Drug quality assurance database (PharmaQC) information

How to use PharmaQC to access pharmaceutical suppliers, Quality Control (QC) pharmacists and Commercial Medicines Unit (CMU) buyers.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 4 March 2011
• Last updated: 25 June 2021 — See all updates

Documents

Drug supplier database: pharmaQC user guide

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Details

The PharmaQC database provides information about products on offer for tender so they can be assessed by QC pharmacists and CMU buyers.

Pharmaceutical suppliers can enter details of their individual products offered for tender on the PharmaQC supplier website.

QC pharmacists can then quality assess the products available and search across all supplier products using the PharmaQC trusts website. Buyers can also assess supply chain risks by reviewing data.

Accessing the PharmaQC websites

You will need to use the Internet Explorer (IE) browser to access the websites.

The sites are designed to work with IE 8.0 only. If you have a more recent version of IE, you can access the sites in ‘compatability view’. To do this, in IE:

• click the ‘Tools’ button
• click ‘Compatability View settings’
• under ‘Add this website’ enter cmu.nhs.uk and click ‘Add’
• make sure the 2 check boxes at the bottom of the screen are ticked
• reload the page or try the link again to view the login screen

Published 4 March 2011
Last updated 25 June 2021 + show all updates

1. 25 June 2021

   Updated the PharmaQC user guide to reflect an operational change in procedure: suppliers should now upload images for assessment purposes instead of sending physical samples.

2. 29 September 2020

   Updated PharmaQC user guide and added instructions for accessing the PharmaQC websites.

3. 4 March 2011

   First published.