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Welcome to May’s edition
of PS magazine.
Welcome to May’s edition of your PS Richard Fenwick (PSUK Sales Controller)
magazine – we are finally past the mad draws on his previous experience as a
Easter weekend rush and like me, I am sure a pharmacy manager, and offers his views on
lot of you are sick of the sight of chocolate! page 14 on the importance of succession
The last few months have seen some big planning in the dispensary, and the impacts
changes that impact dispensing practices – on your business if you don’t identify the
the key ones such as Living Wage increases next senior dispenser/dispensary manager.
and National Insurance changes will have One of the challenges dispensing practices
impacts to the costs for the practice as a face at the moment is ensuring they have
whole, and the new fee scale that came into fully staffed dispensaries, and ensuring that
place for the dispensary last month saw the any knowledge gaps in the team are plugged.
fee scale decline per item by 5p vs October. It becomes vitally important that you have
This makes it more important than ever a plan with how to deal with staff movement
and absences.
to ensure that you are maximising the
benefit that you are getting from your Caroline Pond is back, giving you an in
PSUK membership. There are up to £18k depth look into how prescriptions make you
annually of exclusive or enhanced benefits money and why it is so important that you
that members can take advantage of understand the different elements of the
(not including any benefits that the newly charges. Find out more on page 30
launched Discount Partners proposition All of this along with the usual updates on
can potentially provide), as well as priceless MDS, Top Tips as well as some guidance on
guidance and advice available through our how to utilise the PSUK website by setting up
PSUK live Study Days and profitability/cost ordering lists from page 10.
saving reporting.
Make sure you are talking to your account I hope you enjoy this edition
manager to ensure you are taking advantage
of the tools and propositions on offer to you; – and look forward to
they are always on hand to support and offer seeing many of you at our
guidance and advice. upcoming study days over
Dispensing doctors play a vital role in the coming months!
our rural communities, often to the most
vulnerable members of society – and it’s
important that there is a voice championing
these practices. This month we talk to one
of those voices – Matthew Isom – Chief
Executive of the DDA who provides his view
on the market and how to ensure your voice
is heard by the government. You can find this
article on page 6
Simon Coles
Managing Director, PSUK.
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