Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E- Magazine, dated Monday 8 February, 2016. This week we look at the problems of community pharmacy in more visualised terms, and the first two articles attempt to do just that. Blue Ocean Strategy is a very simple strategy. You compete only in the Blue Ocean where bodies per…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for the week commencing Monday, 1 February 2016. This week sees the stirring of pharmacy as the holiday season draws to a close. It seems to have been an extended break because I suspect there are many tired and stressed pharmacists out there still feeling a bit mentally…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated Monday 25 January 2016. This week we review the new flagship retail store developed for Blackmores, the highly successful manufacturer of vitamins, minerals and a range nutritional supplements and functional foods. Blackmores has independently incorporated many concepts researched or developed by i2P, so it is with a…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday January 18, 2016 – our first edition for the new year, which is likely to be a difficult year as government changes to the 6CPA begin to bite. This is likely to spin off a cascade of in-fighting between government and pharmacy as well as the…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, December 21 2015. We now take a break to join with our own families and celebrate the festive season and will rejoin you after this recess early in January 2016. But what a year 2015 has been, with Pharmacy almost being turned…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 14 December 2015. In my nearly sixty years of being a pharmacist, my motivation in staying around for so long has always been job satisfaction, through the ability to make a difference for a patient. It was never about a high prescription…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated 7 December 2015. This week we are hearing concerns about the affordability of taking a break over the festive season, a decision that will set up a fatigue process that will cloud decision-making in the coming months. At the heart of that decision…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 30 November, 2015. As we move into the festive season for a number of cultures, it does become a moment for introspection, family, a review of values and a collective moment to check on how we are all travelling. While I am…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 23rd November, 2015. Well, it’s now countdown to Christmas where traditionally forward planning and implementation processes are put on hold, and hopefully there will be a Christmas stimulus and  cash flow positive position at the end of the holiday season. If forward…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated Monday 9 November 2015. Well the “race that stops a nation” certainly electrified the nation when an all-Aussie team got up and beat all the overseas opposition and produced the first female jockey ever to win a Melbourne Cup. Just shows what courage and…