Running Your Business

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Business environment

Lessons from the negotiating table

With new deals around the corner elsewhere across Britain, Judy Thomas, director of contractor services at Community Pharmacy Wales, tells Leela Barham what helped in reaching agreement on a future strategy in Wales

2 Min Article

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Business environment

All day, all week, all year

The erosion of dispensing value, notably in England's flat funding agreement, has accelerated the trend to streamline elements of prescription workflow

5 Min Article

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Clinical services

Clinical services growth accelerates

CPCS is taking off, according to the latest NHS data

2 Min Article

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Public health

Buyers beware in the LFT 'wild west'

Community pharmacists looking to sell Covid-19 lateral flow tests to customers may want to check they are buying products that can legitimately be sold in the UK

2 Min Article

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Employment

Don't let secrets walk out the door

Key players regularly move around, whether to further careers, branch out or set up a business which rivals their former employer. But how can a pharmacy protect its confidential information when an employee leaves?

2 Min Article

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Business environment

All four one, one four all?

With Scotland and England’s community pharmacy contracts up for renegotiation, Wales having secured a new deal and Northern Ireland hinting at a new approach, health economist Leela Barham takes stock and asks: who, when, what, why, and so what?

4 Min Article

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Digital & technology

Hub and spoke 2.0

As the Government opens another consultation on hub and spoke dispensing, are the benefits any clearer, and the pitfalls any closer to being resolved?

1 Min Article

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Legal

Working past 65: do's and don'ts

Those who use data and evidence to inform decisions stand a much better chance of staying out of an employment tribunal

1 Min Article

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Efficiency

Payment mistakes: a guide

As cash continues to decline inn use, the banking industry and Government are under pressure to provide better safeguards to protect customers

1 Min Article

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Legal

Soaring energy bills: whose tab?

With energy and utility costs rising fast, who pays in a business occupying rented premises? And what can be done to mitigate further increases?

1 Min Article

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