Patient Group Directions have become one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in community pharmacy, and one of the most under-governed. A single pharmacy might now be running PGDs across Pharmacy First pathways, private weight management, travel health, and a handful of sexual health services, each one added at a different time, signed off […]
—> CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE. FREE FOR PHARMAPLUS MEMBERS Every NHS scheme a pharmacy has to engage with comes with the same problem attached. The official guidance is long, written for a national audience rather than your specific pharmacy, and scattered across a service specification, a funding letter, and whatever the latest CPE bulletin […]
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Community pharmacy changes faster than almost any other part of primary care. Drug Tariff prices move monthly. NHS service specifications get updated mid-year. Consultation caps, funding settlements, and PQS gateway requirements shift on timescales that would be unreasonable in most other sectors, and every single change carries a direct line to what a pharmacy actually […]
—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for more information very newly qualified pharmacist joining the GPhC register is now an independent prescriber from the point of registration, under the 2021 initial education and training standards. The first wave of Day 1 IP graduates arrives this September. Every foundation trainee pharmacist working through their training year […]
—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for a demo. *** FREE TO PHARMAPLUS MEMBERS *** Finding time for proper CPD is one of the quiet, constant pressures of running or working in a community pharmacy. Formal courses need a day out. Webinars need a fixed slot nobody actually has free. Most contractors end up with […]
—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for a demo. Every pharmacy spends most of its outgoing cash in the same place, on stock. Yet most contractors still order the way they always have, working from habit rather than data, taking whatever price the wholesaler screen shows that day, and rarely stopping to ask whether a […]
—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for a demo. *** FREE TO PHARMAPLUS MEMBERS *** NHS funding has not kept pace with cost for years, and every contractor already knows it. The dispensing fee has moved a few pence in a decade while inflation has moved by a third. The pharmacies pulling ahead are not […]
—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for a demo. *** FREE TO PHARMAPLUS MEMBERS *** Every community pharmacy is required to hold Standard Operating Procedures covering everything from controlled drug destruction to fire evacuation. In practice, most contractors inherit a folder of SOPs from a previous owner, a locum agency template, or a wholesaler pack, […]
—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for a demo. *** FREE TO PHARMAPLUS MEMBERS *** Independent pharmacies rarely get to see the kind of market intelligence that larger chains build their strategy around. Commercial data providers sell exactly this sort of information, competitor positioning, dispensing volumes, service uptake, typically for around ten pounds a month […]
