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27 Jun 2012

Category M Barometer

Business The third quarter tariff change will take £9,291 from your pharmacy's bottom line
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S Morein, Other pharmacist
Posted on 28 June 2012.
Such a misleading article.

Atorvastatin (ands others) are new generics...so the profit is a new addition. Contractors are losing nothing...they are just not benefiting from an excessive unwarranted windfall.

In fact the existing Cat M products have increased overall...so good times for extra profit for contractors.
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IAN FRASER, Community pharmacist
Posted on 10 July 2012.
S Morein what kind of other pharmacist are you?
You sound like you work for the NHS as you seem to interpret every Category M action as a gain when the contractors are clearly suffering.
£500 million diluted across an ever greater dispensing volume and a rapidly growing list of common generics can only mean lower margins or am I missing something?
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