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Alliance Boots will Spearhead a Global Onslaught with our Goverment’s Assistance
The news broke last week that Alliance Boots was making plans to enter the Australian market. This appears to be another step in the global concentration of community pharmacy, which Australian pharmacy has been able to withstand. Until now. The original Boots pharmacy group, a UK-based company, was recently taken over by the largest retail…
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Opportunities for Clinical Services
I was interested to read that Chemmart had introduced a genetic testing system designed to tailor drug treatments to an individual patient. At least that has been the promise of these types of tests as they have gradually made their way into the market-place. With the introduction of the myDNA test into a pharmacy environment…
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The Evolution of the Walk-In Clinic to Urgent Care Clinic
Australian pharmacy is now well behind its US and UK counterparts in the development of walk-in clinics and appears almost frightened, certainly reluctant, to build on this obvious platform that has proven successful in re-aligning many large pharmacy groups back to a balanced core health business. CVS in the US appears to be the main…
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MedsASSIST May Prove To Be A Useful Long Term Monitoring Tool
The MedsASSIST system, designed to monitor pharmacy sales of codeine products, has reached the stage of progressing to stage two of a pilot, involving approximately 150 pharmacies in the Newcastle and North Queensland regions. The system is being introduced because government was intending to reschedule codeine to schedule 4 (prescription only) status. Addiction to prescription…
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Seth Godin Clarity – as applied to pharmacy
I have long been admired the mental agility of Seth Godin, the US marketing guru who was the author of an Internet transforming book titled “The Ideavirus”. Basically, he identified and predicted what has now come to pass, in that “word of mouth” would be displaced by “word of mouse”. His words reported further along…
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A Home Doesn’t Need to Have a Single Roof – Because it Might Need to be a Neighbourhood
The “buzz words” floating around the newly discovered world of primary health care are “Patient-Centred Homes”, a concept where a focus is generated on a patient through a triage process where patients are provided an efficient sequential introduction to the health resource most required by those patients under the one roof. Results to date in…
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What Does Domino Pizza and Pharmacy-in-the-Home Service hold in Common?
One of the realities of an ageing population is that pharmacies will need to have a presence in a patient’s home as elderly people begin to lose their mobility and become more fragile. As lifespans increase, the number of family members able to provide support also diminishes (as they die off themselves or become equally…
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Increase Your Employability – Build a Personal Brand Through IT & Social Media
Increasingly, it is becoming more difficult for pharmacies to employ a range of pharmacists. It is simply because of the diminishing money supply in the system. This comes about because of the commoditisation of the PBS and the lack of courage by all pharmacy leaders to develop systems and services that are not government funded…
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A Pharmacy Hub- Providing Advanced Patient Investigations and Linking to all Health Providers
In a recent i2P article a novel design and brand for a walk-in clinic was identified, and its rollout across the US. Its’ target market vision is 62,000 pharmacies – every single pharmacy operating within the US. (Read: Telehealth and Telemedicine – a major pharmacy opportunity in Healthspot Concept ). Of course, it will eventually land in Australia…
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Health Out of Pocket Costs Will Impact Pharmacy
The following information was recently released by the AIHW which is showing a trend for government spending to remain a constant while private expenditure is trending upwards. “Total expenditure on health was estimated at $154.6 billion in 2013–14, up by 3.1% on 2012–13 in real terms. Growth in expenditure per person was $6,639, which was…