Pharmacist Designated Prescribing Practitioners
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), the regulator of pharmacists in the UK has convened to discuss how as a profession, pharmacists can reduce the barriers to entry for pharmacy graduates…
Why are pharmacist locums being paid more?
Looks like pay for pharmacy locums in the UK is on the upswing. From the Chemist and Druggist 2018 Salary Survey. But why? The standard economics 101 rationale pulls up 6 factors:…
Paperless Pharmacy
Becoming Paperless is inevitable. Putting aside the ecological benefits, it makes the macro process of pharmacy safer, faster and more cost effective. But why has it taken so long? One…
10 Common Pharmacists Excuses for not Evolving
1. Too busy dispensing / can’t afford locum cover to leave the pharmacy 2. Can’t easily arrange insurance cover to vaccinate children if independent prescriber 3. Can’t arrange PGD for…
Digital Pharmacy and Voice Assistants
As of October 2018, this is what Alexa is used for... It would be interesting to see statistics from other devices such as Google home and Siri, however, I am…
Community Pharmacy and Amazon in the UK
Yesterday, I did a quarterly check on my balance of payments at Douglas Pharmacy and it seems our NHS profit margin over the past year has halved. But then, this morning, I woke to…
Pharmacists are accessible experts in medicine.
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of news surrounding the availability of Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs) such as Epipen. My favourite story is the almost comic villainisation of…
A Digital Pharmacy Revolution.
Times are changing. Efficiencies brought by digitisation of healthcare will have repercussions we can only partly imagine. Much like the candlestick maker prognosticating their future job prospects in the 1900s…