Targets are great, but priorities are better

Exporting isn't illegal. We're in the EU and pharmaceuticals are a global business. When the euro starts to tank against the £ it will end as quick as it started.

Targets...targets...targets!!! Isn't that all we hear these days especially if you work for a large multiple and of course, the smaller pharmacy businesses need to do the same just to break even. The lust for profits has all but taken over pharmacy. Only the decent, hardworking and caring staff are keeping things ticking over...just. I've recently walked out of my job with Boots as I can no longer stand by and keep quiet about the ridiculous attitude of this company. My main priority is the patient. They are my ONLY priority. But not when I was in that job. It has become dangerous in my opinion. I could no longer be a part of it. There are so many incidents I could quote to back up my statements but there would be no point. Whilst we all blindly carry on doing what these money grabbing companies want us to do, nothing will ever change...
#PatientsBeforeProfit

well said brian. i totally agree

What kept you? I left Boots as a pharmacist manager in 2002 for exactly the same reasons. Ticks on an audit sheet were more important than the patient in front of you even then. When I first left, life outside Boots seemed like an ocean of calm compared to what I was used to. Unfortunately, thanks to generally unnecessary outside pressure and the pharmacy contract, even working for independents is sliding into the same pit that Boots were excavating so successfully even all those years ago. The nightmare scenarios created on the pharmacy floor by MURs and NMSs pervade nearly every corner of community pharmacy now. I can't believe the schools of pharmacy are overrun with students this year - have none of these youngsters spoken to a practising pharmacist?

Lets be honest all pharmacies are here to make profit and so is the big supermarkets as well. The problems is the conflict of interest between pharmacist and the business. Our main priority is the patient but for the person who runs the pharmacy has the priority of bottom line which pays you and me. I think it is high time we draw a good balance between the both. These supermarket are here to stay so it is inevitable we change are attitude towards the financial aspects of pharmacy. you are right it is patient is before profit but don't ever forget we are not a non profitable organisation. I think it is time for the pharmacy schools to address the fundamental issue of learning. Eg; looking at a prescription as a legal document, clinical document and more importantly as a cheque to be en-cashed.

Have manufacturers checked with their dtp partners stock supplied to wholesalera vs invoices to pharmacies.

lesson in life!
A wise man sat in the audience and cracked a joke, Everybody laughed like crazy, After sometime he cracked the same joke again, this time less people laughed, we cracked the same joke again and again when there is no laughter in the crowd.
he smiled and said, we can't laugh at the same joke again and again but why do we keep crying the same thing again and again. I hope the message is clear!
Stop complaining and lets get our priorities right!