analysis
Systems thinking in healthcare
How WHO describes health-system governance, and why a single rule fails when the other actors are left out.
Health systems, supply and packaging
Better systems for health and medicines
Fresh Thinking explains how health systems are governed, how medicine supply is organised, and what pharmaceutical packaging has to do. Pages cite the sources they use. They are not clinical advice and they are not an equipment offer.
Editor’s selection
analysis
Access to medicines is more than a price
WHO figures on coverage and hardship, and the access barriers that are not the same thing as a carton.
guide
How a medicine supply chain is organised
The handoffs from making a dose to storing, moving and dispensing it, without invented volumes.
guide
Primary, secondary and tertiary packaging
Working labels for the pack that touches the dose, the carton around it, and the shipper. Not a statute quote.
Start from a question
Pharmaceutical packaging
The packaging shelf covers pack layers, blister and bottle forms, cartoning, sachets and stick packs, film overwrap, and how to write a line requirement.Open the packaging section.
guide
Primary, secondary and tertiary packaging
Working labels for the pack that touches the dose, the carton around it, and the shipper. Not a statute quote.
comparison
Blister and bottle packaging compared
A conditional comparison of unit-dose cards and multi-dose bottles, based on public descriptions rather than a test.
guide
Pharmaceutical cartoning, leaflets and missing parts
The checks around erecting a carton, inserting a leaflet and rejecting a missing component, without invented speeds.