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Running Your Business

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Business environment

Here's to (Lanes) health

Almost a century on, Lanes Health continues to work to its founder’s values to improve people’s health and quality of life

28 Jun 2022 , 3 Min Article

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Employment

Going back in time for holiday pay

To avoid unexpected claims for holiday pay, assessing the risk that self‑employed contractors such as locums could be deemed workers is a reasonable approach

24 Jun 2022 , 2 Min Article

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Legal

Limited options when rents rise

Solicitor Michelle Noble says preparation is vital to get the best out of a rent review

24 Jun 2022 , 2 Min Article

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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

23 Jun 2022 , 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

22 Jun 2022 , 5 Min Article

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Clinical services

Clinical services growth accelerates

CPCS is taking off, according to the latest NHS data

17 May 2022 , 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

13 May 2022 , 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?

12 May 2022 , 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?

11 May 2022 , 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?

06 May 2022 , 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

24 Apr 2022 , 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

20 Apr 2022 , 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?

19 Apr 2022 , 1 Min Article

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Efficiency

A PMR check in

Annual update: PMR suppliers continue to step up their offerings to meet the evolving demands on their systems 

13 Apr 2022 , 1 Min Article

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Contract

For healthier incentives, go north

Scotland’s three-year funding deal for community pharmacy has a year to run. Leela Barham argues that, on paper at least, the deal has good incentives for helping to keep people healthy

11 Apr 2022 , 1 Min Article

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Management problem solving

Firing and rehiring

It's been slated in the press, but how does firing and re-hiring work

08 Mar 2022 , 1 Min Article