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module menu icon Optimistic scenario: pharmacy grows

  • By 2025, baby boomers are turning 80 and the NHS wants pharmacy to do more to care for the elderly, including monitoring their long-term conditions. Better screening, much of it by pharmacists as a paid service, identifies more patients suffering from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, etc, increasing prescription numbers. Pharmacists are incentivised to ensure patients take only the medicines they need, and use them effectively
  • The pandemic response convinces the Government how important the community-based network of pharmacy premises is and actively directs appropriate NHS workload away from hospitals and GP surgeries. More enhanced and essential services are commissioned
  • Consumers respond to th eemergency with a renewed interest in their own health. They start spending more on healthcare, including private treatments and services. Interest rates stay low in the recession, keeping wages and other controllable costs down
  • Technology provides more ways to reach consumers. More cheaply priced robotics help all pharmacies improve efficiency and reduce costs
  • End-to-end digitisation of the prescription process helps improve efficiency and reduce errors. Central dispensing hubs provide options to release time in the pharmacy for other services
  • A monopoly for existing pharmacy players leads to better working conditions and a better return on capital.
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