Improve your pharmacy's productivity and maximise the business opportunities offered by the Government’s Pharmacy White Paper with C+D's one-day business seminar.

Date: Monday, November 24, 2008

Venue: Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriar's Road, London, SE1 9UY

Attend the seminar and learn how to:

• recognise and build on your business strengths

• prioritise areas for development in your pharmacy

• find a successful business model for you

• identify opportunities in the Pharmacy White Paper

• create a bespoke action plan for your business

Overview

Community pharmacy is an intensely competitive business and one that has been hit by cash flow and operational challenges as the government recovers excess purchase profits with little or no warning.

But there are new opportunities ahead in the government’s white paper vision for pharmacy. Attend C+D’s Business Seminar and find out how you can gain a competitive advantage and maximise your pharmacy’s potential by getting your business ready now. Changing what you do and how you do it is essential for survival.

C+D’s Business Seminar will be delivered by pharmacists Michael Holden and Deborah Evans who have a significant breadth and depth of commercial experience between them.

The format of the seminar will be practical and hands on. You will examine issues from your own business and you will leave ready to create a powerful and unique action plan for your business.

The seminar will show how a clearly defined business strategy, motivated staff and a focussed approach to reaching your business objectives, can pay dividends.

The cost of the full day seminar including refreshments and lunch is £195 + VAT.

Programme

9.30am

Registration

10am - Introduction and overview of the pharmacy landscape

 • The key policy drivers

 • Why you need to adapt your business

 • Q&A on the Government’s blueprint for pharmacy

11am - Group exercise

 • Review your business objectives and identify ideas for development

 • What makes your business succeed?

 • What is getting in the way of it being even more successful? • What ideas do you want to implement?

12pm - Your business
 • How to analyse your business
 • How to define a direction and implement it
 • Identifying what makes your business unique
 • Identifying what opportunities you can exploit
 •  Understand competitive advantage

1pm - Lunch

2pm - Business models
 • What different business models are there?
 • Which business model is right for you?
 • Key features of different models
 • Pros and cons for each
 • Your current business model
 • Future proofing your business model

3.30pm - Change management
 • Learn how to put this learning into practice
 • Tools to help you deliver change in your business
 • Recognising where to focus to make the change happen
 • Making it happen and ensuring you keep on course

4.30pm Questions and summary
 • The day’s learning plus actions and top tips to take away

5pm - Close