Insight

Farah Ali, general manager at Warman-Freed, Perrigo’s learning pharmacy, provides a real-time insight into how they found the right partner to hire their consultation room, benefitting both the local community and their bottom line

The largest usage peak for SCR was seen in the last week of June 2018, which coincides with the last Quality Payments checkpoint for SCR, according to NHS data compiled by PharmData.

Squaring the circle of increasing demand and falling margins on dispensing is prompting owners to think automation

With investment of £4.5bn going into primary care via primary care networks, PSNC has prioritised support for LPCs in 2019/20. LPCs are going to be crucial, but are they fit for purpose? 

Real World Analytics’ Conall Lavery’s checklist for maximising business performance and enhancing patient care concludes with items 16 to 20

Part three of Real World Analytics' Conall Lavery's rundown of 20 ways to use data to improve business performance. This month: items 11-15 

Items six to ten on Real World Analytics' Conall Lavery's 20 point checklist includes quick wins in revenue

What makes one pharmacy different from others? Understanding consumer loyalty can help, and a net promoter score is one way to measure it 

Real World Analytics’ Conall Lavery details the first five items on his 20 point checklist of things that need to be done consistently well to improve business performance.

Pensions regulator issues more than 20,000 fines for failures over auto-enrolment

Keeping track of security and shrinkage in a busy working environment is a tough proposition, but vital in order to reduce profit losses

It’s just a few months to ‘FMD day’, 9 February 2019. What do you actually need to do now? 

How can you take your pharmacy business to the next level? 

New Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) are key factors in the buying and selling of pharmacy premises and for lease negotiation

What happens if you buy something for the pharmacy that you aren’t happy with or is damaged? This is what the law says

So, your pharmacy needs a new van for deliveries, but should you lease one or buy one? What’s best for your business? 

From 9 February 2019 the EU Falsified Medicines Directive will change the process of dispensing medicines in Europe. What do we know about it?

It’s important that every business has a written strategy, suggests Alliance Healthcare’s Chris Martin

As employers, pharmacy business owners process their employees’ data daily, and must consider whether their contracts of employment and policies should be amended to reflect the new GDPR requirements.

Community pharmacists will have to learn a new language and use a new set of skills to engage with STPs, says Hemant Patel