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If you count and file your prescriptions each
day, then checking the backs is doable.
When you count weekly or worse monthly,
this task becomes mammoth and unsigned
prescriptions are likely to slip through.

The important check here is for the signature
NOT the exemption tick, although both
should be accurate. No signature means no
exemption recognised (other than age related
exemption, PA items or contraceptives which
are automatic) and the script will be moved
to paid and the payment total deducted from
your drug payments. Please, please check
how prescriptions are being handled and
reduce this needless loss.

2. Generic purchasing.

Generic schemes are key to the profitable supply of generic medicines
on NHS prescriptions and given that the vast majority of prescriptions
are written and supplied as generics this needs our attention. Your
mainline wholesaler generic scheme will be designed to reward your
custom and loyalty and you need to make the most of what it has to
offer. These schemes need to offer you profit on supply or we would all
go down financially and shut up shop which no wholesaler wants. Sounds like we have
got generics in the bag then doesn’t it however it seems that we have a problem with
sticking to our mainline wholesaler schemes and our shopping around behaviours are
what can upset the apple cart here.

Your generic scheme rewards loyalty. Your second and third line purchases, more often
than not, do not have any loyalty benefit and will leave you financially short after
clawback.
Below are a couple of examples of the type of loss you might expect to see when you
purchase ‘off-piste’.

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