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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 the ones waiting for the next CPCF settlement to rescue them. They are the ones who have built a second income line out of private clinical services, and stopped treating the shop floor as just a place to hand out NHS prescriptions.

That is the gap PharmaPlus exists to close. Not with vague encouragement to “diversify,” but with a working private clinical services framework members can put into practice without spending months on governance, supplier vetting, or writing consultation protocols from scratch.

Private prescriptions, already running

The private prescription service is not a future promise. It runs today through an established platform partnership, giving members a working route to dispense private prescriptions from prescribers outside the NHS system, fully documented and fully compliant, with the commercial terms already agreed on your behalf. If you are still treating private scripts as an occasional one-off rather than a standing revenue line, this is the easiest gap to close first.

Ear wax removal, proven and fast to set up

Ear microsuction is one of the fastest wins in the portfolio. Consumable cost per appointment sits at roughly two pounds. Service pricing runs from forty to ninety pounds per ear depending on your local area, which means the margin on a single appointment slot comfortably outperforms almost anything else on your price list. Patients want it, GPs have stopped offering it, and the equipment cost is modest. For pharmacies not yet running this service, it is close to the lowest-effort, highest-return addition available.

Point of care testing, coming online

Patients increasingly want same-day answers rather than a two-week wait for a GP blood test, and community pharmacy is well placed to give it to them. We are actively building the framework to bring point of care blood testing into member pharmacies properly, governance, consumables, and a viable commercial model, rather than rushing members into a partnership before the numbers and the provider are right. If this is a service you want to offer, get in touch now so you are first in line when it goes live.

The private PGD portfolio, one governance framework, many services

This is where the real breadth sits. Under a single private PGD governance framework, members can offer weight management, travel health, and a range of sexual health and minor ailment treatments, all under proper superintendent authorisation rather than an ad hoc arrangement nobody has properly signed off.

Weight management is the standout right now. GLP-1 treatments including semaglutide, liraglutide, and tirzepatide are driving patient demand that shows no sign of slowing, and the clinical framework, eligibility criteria, titration schedule, and follow-up protocol, is already built. Travel health sits alongside it, using the same NaTHNaC-based risk assessment approach the NHS travel clinics use, so patients get a properly assessed consultation rather than a leaflet and a jab.

Occupational health vaccination, a business-to-business line worth taking seriously

Most contractors only think about patients walking through the door. There is a parallel market in local employers who need occupational health vaccination for their own staff, and a pharmacy already equipped for vaccination administration is well placed to pick up that contract work with minimal extra setup.

What membership actually buys you here

None of this needs to be built from nothing. Every private clinical service above sits on a fully written governance framework, referenced against the right legislation and PGD standards, ready for a superintendent to sign off and a pharmacist to start using. What would normally take weeks of policy writing and supplier due diligence is already done. Bring the room, the staff, and the will to offer something beyond the dispensary, and the rest of the infrastructure is already sitting there waiting for you.

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