News, guidance, and stories from across the independent pharmacy community.
NHS England has confirmed that Pharmacy First will expand to five new conditions this autumn. It is good news for patients and a real step forward for community pharmacy. The way it has been reported, however, risks creating a problem for pharmacy teams before the service has even started. This morning’s BBC coverage told the […]
PGDs have become core infrastructure in community pharmacy and among the least governed. Pharmacy First, weight management, travel health — each signed off separately, rarely reviewed together.
Official scheme guidance is long, written for a national audience, and scattered across a service specification, a funding letter and the latest CPE bulletin. Each scheme explained once, properly.
Most membership benefits are things — a calculator, a document, software sitting on a server. This one is people: a live network of contractors and pharmacists answering each other’s questions.
Drug Tariff prices move monthly, service specifications shift mid-year, and funding settlements land without much warning. How members stay ahead of the changes that actually affect income.
Every newly qualified pharmacist now joins the GPhC register as an independent prescriber, and the first wave of Day 1 IP graduates arrives this September. What that means for your pharmacy.
Formal courses need a day out. Webinars need a slot nobody actually has free. CPD that embeds through the year instead of being rushed at renewal time.
Stock is where most of a pharmacy’s cash goes, yet most ordering still runs on habit and whatever price the wholesaler screen shows that day. A data-led look at the margin you are already leaving behind.
The dispensing fee has moved a few pence in a decade while inflation moved by a third. The pharmacies pulling ahead have built a second income line rather than waiting for the next settlement.
Most contractors inherit a folder of SOPs from a previous owner or a wholesaler pack: half relevant, half years out of date. 155 procedures, written properly, once.
Competitor positioning, dispensing volumes and service uptake — the market intelligence larger chains build strategy around, and which commercial providers sell at around ten pounds a month per pharmacy.
Very few contractors have properly modelled what a clinical service is actually worth once real costs are accounted for. Covers point of care testing, ear microsuction and PGD-based services.
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