by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | May 26, 2015 | Analyisis, Blog, Business, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacist, pharmacy business development, setting up a pharmacy business
The Victorian State Government in Australia has committed $28.7m over the next four years to fund the establishment and running of 20 super pharmacies. The pharmacies will operate 7 days a week 24 hours a day and will employ a nurse to be on hand from 6pm to 10pm for...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 31, 2015 | Pharmacist
What do you think? Do you want the Medicines Use Review (MURs) and New Medicine Service (NMS) to become essential services? There is a view that the government may reduce fee to deliver the services over time if they are. The pharmacies with no consultation room may...
by Ryan Watts | Feb 17, 2015 | Pharmacist, Uncategorized
by Ryan Watts | Feb 5, 2015 | Pharmacist
Having spent over twenty years writing plans for the future and pointing out what is under-utilised the pharmacy world has been very slow in influencing, in a significant manner, the commissioning and implementation of this alternative world. Many models are still...
by Ryan Watts | Jan 20, 2015 | Pharmacist
Hospital pharmacy is a very competitive sector, if you look back ten years or so, most hospitals had pharmacists on the ‘shop floor’ undertaking traditional dispensing tasks, making it relatively easy for a retail pharmacist to switch between community pharmacy and...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jan 20, 2015 | Pharmacist
With many pharmacies extending their opening hours and the ongoing battle to increase the number of prescription items dispensed daily it is more important than ever to ensure your pharmacist and technicians take the breaks they need and are entitled to. Workplace...