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Are you ready for

allergy season?

Allergy and hay fever season is a core part of the pharmacy calendar, driving significant
footfall into the pharmacy for your product ranges, advice and services to help patients relieve
their allergy symptoms.
Over 25% of the population are affected by allergies each year, injecting huge profit potential
into your pharmacy. Allergies are notoriously difficult to conquer, with many first time
sufferers using a trial and error technique to find the solution most appropriate to them.
As the centre of community health, it’s vital that you’re able to support your customers
suffering allergy symptoms by offering treatments, helpful advice and a product range fit
for all ages. Pharmacy is in a unique position to support with medications only available
over a pharmacy counter and a higher calibre of advice than could be achieved by visiting a
supermarket or discount retailer.
One of the tricky parts of the season, is anticipating the spike and being ready for it. Hay
fever season can land realistically anytime between February and April but it’s hard to
forecast. You need to be prepared early on, making sure staff are equipped for the influx of
questions about customer allergies and having the right ranges in place to fulfil customer
requirements.

We have a host of support available to kick off your allergy
season and make it a resounding success!

Be ready early, get the stock in
and on your shelves in advance
of the start of the season, and
make sure staff are equipped
with knowledge to support
patients with symptoms.
Private Patient Group Directions
(PGDs)
Numark has partnered with Pharmacists who run this service, are
Pharmadoctor to offer over 60 oral and authorised to dispense:
vaccination Patient Group Directions
(PGDs). They provide simple and cost • Fluticasone propionate, azelastine
effective solutions to enable your pharmacy hydrochloride (Dymista®) 137
to provide services for the supply of specific micrograms/50 micrograms per
prescription only medicines* without the actuation nasal spray
need for your customers to visit their GP • Azelastine hydrochloride
for a prescription. Purchasing through (Rhinolast®) 0.1% w/v nasal spray
Pharmadoctor, Numark members will benefit • Beclometasone dipropionate
from a 10% discount on the standard cost (Beconase®) Aqueous Nasal Spray
of PGDs.
• Mometasone furoate 50mcg per
actuation (Nasonex®)
Save 10% on PGDs

You can offer the Pharmadoctor Hay
Fever Service Package, which enables According to Pharmadoctor’s profit
pharmacists to provide customers with a calculator, a single pharmacy servicing an
clinically robust allergy consultation service average of 12 patients each month, could
and then offer POM treatments where achieve a potential gross profit of £8,400
appropriate. per year.
You can calculate your potential profit via
Pharmadoctor.co.uk/pharmacist/profit-
calculator/hay-fever

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