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Margin squeeze has been felt by pharmacies Drug Tariff Tips
for some time with tightening of contractual
funding, increased purchase prices and tough Curated by our UK Drug Tariff specialist and
competition, along with being hit by the cost Information Services team member Sue Swift,
of living crisis. we frequently publish useful Tariff Tips to help
provide advice and guidance to everyday
At Numark, we’ll do what we can to ease the queries that you may come across in the
tension by highlighting the elements of your pharmacy and are created based on common
Numark membership that are available to queries that are received by our Information
support in offering a little slack in the margin Services team.
crunch. Access the Tariff Tips library at
First and foremost, our Information Services numarknet.com/tarifftips
team are a goldmine when it comes to
providing you with free expert advice on all Monthly Big Hitters
aspects of the clinical and contractual areas The Tariff Big Hitters are produced each
of your business. As part of your membership, month by Sue Swift, to complement the Drug
the team are available at the end of the Tariff Tips. They outline a few of the prominent
phone or via our new Numark Chat & Help changes to the current month’s Drug Tariff,
hub, where you can ask them for professional including price changes, to bring attention
advice, a second pharmacist opinion and how to what you could potentially be losing or
to manage cost reduction with changes to the gaining.
Drug Tariffs in all four home countries. Access the Tariff Big Hitters at
As well as being directly contactable, numarknet.com/bighitters
they also regularly publish information
that can benefit you in fighting against Do Not Dispense
margin reduction, via dedicated pages on List of appliances that have been removed
NumarkNet, but will also frequently post from the Drug Tariff and are no longer
important updates via the news section available on the NHS, it is important to
of NumarkNet and the monthly member understand what these are so that you do not
newsletter, to ensure you do not miss this vital lose money by dispensing them.
information.
Download the monthly Do Not Dispense at
numarknet.com/dnd
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