Targets are great, but priorities are better

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

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?

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