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Patient impressions
Do we really understand how your patients perceive us? Experts agree that our patients form an opinion of our practice in a matter of seconds. And some of the latest research on first impressions suggest that it might be within the blink of an eye. I’m not referring to the pharmacy building here….I’m referring to…
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United in Compassion – Medical Marijuana and Dan’s Story
Editor’s Note: As most i2P subscribers would know, we carry a range of information on diverse topics, one of which is medical marijuana. i2P has been encouraging pharmacists to become engaged with medical marijuana as Cannabis Directory Australia does because of the promise of major health benefits, also a product that could impact on the…
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Medical Maijuana – will Australian Community Pharmacies consider the legislation of Uruguay?
Ministers in the South American country Uruguay have voted in support of a new law, known as 19.172 and enacted in December 2013, to permit marijuana to be sold for non-medicinal use. They also accepted the offer by Uruguay’s community pharmacy owners to sell the drug through their outlets. The community pharmacy owners argue that community pharmacies…
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Consumerism, health care costs and patient-centred “homes”
Health objectives in Australia are shifting from fee for service models to capitation models in a bid to simultaneously improve quality and reduce costs. The idea of a patient-centred “home” led by a doctor is touted as the principal model of care. i2P has always pointed to the fact that any business model led by…
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Methods for gaining knowledge – mentors, advisers and choosing a discomfort zone
I was reading up on some material written by marketing guru Seth Godin and marveled once more at the insight this man brings to his writing so effortlessly and at once, so obvious as to wonder why you hadn’t tapped the same vein of thought through your own resources. He highlights that if we go…
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Onboarding – a Key Word to Learn for Your Future Profitability
In planning resources for a pharmacy I often pose the question: “Which of the two resources of staff and patients is the most important, and what must be budgeted for first?” Seems a bit of a rhetorical question and if you answered “patients” both times you are technically wrong. If you do not have a…
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The King Review and Complementary Medicines
The King Review poses some interesting questions to Australians about the role of community pharmacy, and more especially the pharmacist, in selling, recommending and prescribing complementary medicines. If you feel that you can play a role in advising your patients on this modality, then get active……. If you don’t, then your patients will miss out,…
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Marketing Focus – Issues & Insights
Greetings from Edinburgh, Scotland. Throughout Britain, Brexit remains a much discussed but unresolved issue. The journey to the ultimate conclusion will be long, complex, somewhat convoluted and subject to considerable negotiations. There will be costs incurred as a consequence of the referendum. At this time many of those are difficult to identify, quantify and schedule.…
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Fighting for a Just Cause
Editor’s Note: There is a major push by some academics and major corporate conglomerates to become, for want of a better description, “cognitive dictators”. It is a process described in its earlier formative stages as “dumbing down” the population. A form of mind control deemed necessary before a corporate “one world government” could openly emerge…
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A little fear can be a good thing
A small village by the sea depended on fishing to survive. Each year the boats they sent out had to go farther and farther from shore to catch enough fish to feed all the villagers. But as they ventured farther away, they encountered a problem. Their usual practice was to put the fish they caught…