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 Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies |
 Alliance Boots’ Almus generics range is booming as it capitalises on patent expiries, the company says, so what are the wider implications for pharmacy? |
 As dispensed items in England pass one billion for the first time, how has the NHS drugs bill changed? |
 With an eye for technological innovation and a background in retail, Celesio UK MD Cormac Tobin sets out his vision for the Lloydspharmacy of the future |
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Category M Barometer April’s category M tariff brings with it a positive reimbursement adjustment, boosting the average pharmacy’s purchase profit by about £310 over the next three months |
 At the launch of the partnership between Alliance Boots and The Christie oncology hospital, C+D asks how the role of pharmacy in cancer care is changing. |
 Following the £4.27 billion merger between Boots and US healthcare giant Walgreens, and the announcement this week that the No.7 brand will be rolled out across the US, C+D reporter Emma Weinbren asks what will the ramifications will be for Boots. |
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The GPhC claims to “protect, promote and maintain the health, safety and wellbeing of members of the public”. Well, this idea doesn’t, writes Xrayser |
 Time is once again running out, writes Jennifer Richardson, on this occasion to claim not just this year's cash but the future of the NMS |
 Apply a commercial scenario to the contract funding negotiations and PSNC should be held responsible to its pharmacist shareholders, writes Jennifer Richardson |
 After another financially difficult year for community pharmacy, Emma Weinbren asks if more pharmacies – multiples and independents alike – should follow Boots in focusing on retail over dispensing and services |
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Alliance Boots’ Almus generics range is booming as it capitalises on patent expiries, the company says, so what are the wider implications for pharmacy? |
 Business Pharmacists in England are suffering their biggest drop in revenue for four years, with some losing more than £100,000 from their annual revenue, contractors and pharmacy experts have warned. |
 Business Pharmacy businesses cannot rely on purchase profits from generic medicines and need to see their place in “the big holistic picture of the future”, Alliance Healthcare chiefs have warned. |
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Category M Barometer April’s category M tariff brings with it a positive reimbursement adjustment, boosting the average pharmacy’s purchase profit by about £310 over the next three months |
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Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies |
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Practice It is crucial that independent contractors start gearing up for paperless prescriptions now, as GPs have been given the authority to set their own go-live date for the EPS, pharmacy trade body Numark has warned. |
 Practice PSNC was forced to rethink the funding of its PharmOutcomes database because of a revolt by some contractors who refused to pay for the "unproven software", C+D has learned. |
 Practice Jeremy Hunt has thrown down the gauntlet to NHS officials to create the "most modern digital health service in the world" and save £4.4 billion annually by becoming paperless in the next five years. |