CEVA’s new pharma facility

The renovated site adds to CEVAs investment in the pharmaceutical logistics industry and will serve a number of customers across the healthcare sector.

CEVA Logistics has opened a fully refurbished 132,000 sqft facility at Redditch. Refurbishments at the West Midlands site included the addition of LED lighting as well as the installation of a HVAC system (heating, ventilation and air conditioning). The HVAC system enables the facility to provide temperature controlled areas which is a requirement for the storage of certain healthcare items. There is also a dedicated area in the warehouse which can store specialist items requiring to be kept between the specific range of two and eight degrees Celsius.

The refurbished site is now an MHRA approved facility (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) which certifies it as a safe and secure component of a medical supply chain. To receive this authorisation, a potential authorisation/ license holder must show compliance with a number of principles including the segregation of Prescription Only Medication and the safe storage of products in relation to their temperature.

The opening of the facility coincides with a new five-year warehousing agreement and a three-year transport agreement with Nutricia – the UKs leading provider of medical nutrition. Under this agreement, CEVA provides the warehousing and distribution of medical nutritional feed products for a wide variety of medical conditions for both pharmaceutical wholesalers and homebound patients. CEVAs site has a Registered Pharmacy to dispense prescriptions and the onsite Pharmacist and support team accurately checks all home delivery orders and clinically checks all prescriptions using bespoke software.

"In order to provide logistics service to the healthcare market, you must meet strict regulations and compliance standards,” states Michael O'Donoghue, Executive Vice President UK, Ireland and Nordics, CEVA.