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Services Development

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Business environment

Delivering the win-win-win

Provider companies could prove to be vital elements of the pharmacy landscape as population-based services commissioned by integrated care systems and public health expand. Rob Darracott asked the team at Central Health for tips on navigating a way into local commissioning

13 Oct 2021 , 8 Min Article

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Customer service

Time for an upgrade?

The Pharmacy Show is a great place to check out the latest technology innovations

12 Oct 2021 , 4 Min Article

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Clinical services

Is the CPCS delivering? Or is it too soon to tell?

Health economist Leela Barham unpicks the value proposition of the CPCS

14 Jul 2021 , 4 Min Article

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Pharmacy-run vaccine site numbers grow

Pharmacy-run Covid vaccine services top 300 instore and offsite locations

13 Jun 2021 , 2 Min Article

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More bright business ideas

Tech boffins and creative minds continue to devise and develop ingenious solutions to benefit pharmacy businesses. We round up the latest…

13 Jun 2021 , 2 Min Article

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Cancer & palliative care

Raising the profile of cancer prevention

Community pharmacist Jackie Lewis’s mission to raise the profile of cancer prevention, treatment and care has now spawned two key resources for the sector. 

13 Jun 2021 , 2 Min Article

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Business environment

Time for a new metric?

Final data for 2020 prescription volumes are in: here's the detail

17 May 2021 , 2 Min Article

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Clinical services

Road to better needle work

As more pharmacists consider adding aesthetics to their services, Professor Ash Mosahebi says there's a need for rigour when offering cosmetic treatments

29 Mar 2021 , 2 Min Article

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CPCS: the story so far

Concerned about reports that some general practice teams in England are bypassing the CPCS by referring patients to pharmacies ‘informally’.

12 Feb 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Access all areas

More players are joining the remote consultation space as the roll-out of appointments that give patients virtual access to pharmacists speeds up.

07 Feb 2021 , 4 Min Article

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Customer service

Time to grasp the digital nettle

There are better ways of providing healthcare, says Dr Noel O'Kelly, and it all hinges on digital inclusion.

07 Feb 2021 , 2 Min Article

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NMS in decline; mixed picture on prescription numbers

Are patients failing to present at surgeries behind a fall in completions of NMS?

06 Feb 2021 , 2 Min Article

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Services

The pharmacist will see you now

GP surgeries began referring into the CPCS on 1 November, but what happens next?

11 Dec 2020 , 3 Min Article

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Vaccinations

Offsite flu jab centre delivers capacity for Preston pharmacy

Success for design and build pharmacy-run centre at local rugby club 

07 Dec 2020 , 2 Min Article

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Machine learnings

In the last in our series on automation, we look at the obvious wins and unexpected surprises that come from adding robots to the pharmacy team. 

22 Oct 2020 , 3 Min Article

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Pregnancy & baby care

A healthy start

Mums and mums-to-be need pharmacy reassurance now more than ever

21 Sep 2020 , 4 Min Article

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