Category: Distance Selling Pharmacy

Are pharmacists proficient vaccinators?

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Flu has been responsible for the world’s most deadly pandemics having once killed 50 million people in a single wave (Spanish Flu, 1918). The technology to produce flu vaccines at a low cost and at scale, to protect the public only emerged in response to the “avian flu” pandemic which broke out in Hong Kong […]

Swimming Upstream – Pharmacy Service Commissioning

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The independent community pharmacy sector is fast evolving into a more service-based model. With the impending acquisition of Pharmacy2U by Amazon and the meteoric rise of internet pharmacies such as Well and Boots… (see image below) We don’t have much choice. Our representative associations have promised more commissioned services to compensate for this loss, but […]