Martin Sawyer opened the conference and was keen to let the Government know that they should have chosen the existing medicine wholesalers to manage their anti-viral stock , which would have saved them writing off £74 million pounds worth of stock. UK Medicine Wholesalers know how to procure, store, keep records and deliver up to 16,000 patient facing outlets twice daily.
Martin Sawyer is quoted as saying
“Let us value our medicines supply chain …it’s in place and it works”
The enormity of the task to deliver up to 25,000 different products with in 24 hours to any far flung corner of the UK is phenomenal and we retail pharmacists have been very spoilt and privileged to receive such good service. It was also very interesting to learn the extend to which the wholesalers pre-finance the supply chain.