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Focus: Community pharmacy
February 2014
Do the words “community pharmacy” give you a sense of despair? Do they conjure up thoughts of endless, hard-to-reach targets, dwindling pharmacy income and lack of professional autonomy? Do they make you think of ever-increasing demands from customers, patients and the Government? Are you fed up with the continued cuts in dispensing income and do not know what to do? Are you fed up with the continued cuts in dispensing income and do not know what to do? We hope this issue of Focus will help give you ideas and perhaps provide a more positive view of community pharmacy …
Editorial
If we do not stand up for ourselves, who will? Don’t be afraid to speak up
Too often community pharmacist employees are caught in situations where they have to work under unacceptably stressful conditions. But nothing will change if we stay silent
Comment
Giving community pharmacy a health check: how are we doing as a healthcare sector?Subscription
As NHS England officially calls community pharmacies to action to help decide what their future should look like, Mark Burdon gives the sector a SWOT analysis
Corporate operators set to become acquisitive in 2014 in pharmacy marketSubscription
Simon Hughes from specialist property adviser Christie + Co reflects on the past year in pharmacy markets and predicts an acquisitive year ahead — for some
Features
Examining the role of new technology in pharmacy: now and in the future
Pharmacists rely heavily on technology to help them do tasks that are often complex. Stephen Goundrey-Smith takes a look at what is available on the market
The challenges we share with some EU countries: what can we learn?
It is easy to say pharmacy in the UK is all doom and gloom. But are we really doing that badly? John Chave compares us with some European countries
Career feature
Everything you need in one place: the RPS community pharmacy online hubSubscription
Rakhee Amin from RPS Support explains how the new online community pharmacy support hub can help community pharmacists with their practice