Local pharmacy chain launches app for Pharmacy First consultation bookings
Jardines Pharmacy’s patients can now book consultations and order repeat prescriptions using a new app, its app developer has announced.
A medium pharmacy chain has launched an app that lets patients book consultations and blood pressure checks, its app developer Charac revealed yesterday (April 22).
Jardines Pharmacy’s patients can also now order repeat prescriptions, organise medicine deliveries and book pharmacist consultations for earwax removal, travel vaccinations and other services at certain Jardines branches using the Milton-Keynes-based chain’s mobile app, Charac said.
Patients of the family-run pharmacy chain will also be able to track orders in the app, it added.
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The app “minimises administrative and manual tasks for pharmacists” at Jardines, the developer said.
But Jardines - which operates 50 pharmacies across the Midlands and the South East of England - will also benefit from improved “prescription dispensing efficiency”, leaving pharmacists with more time available to spend on “revenue-boosting activities”, it added.
Charac said that its apps are designed to “relieve time pressures” and to “increase profitability”.
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The Jardines Pharmacy app is the latest release from Charac, which claims that “more than 20% of UK pharmacies” now use one or more of its “modules”.
Charac chief executive Santosh Sahu said that he believes the new app “will inspire community pharmacies across the UK to adopt technology that encourages patients to utilise the full range of services on offer at their local pharmacy”.
In November, Charac announced that it had secured a £1 million investment from the Australia-based company MedAdvisor, which it said would allow the platform to “expand its capabilities” into Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
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This came hot on the heels of “£1.2m in debt and equity financing jointly from the NPA and pharmacy owners”, announced in September.
And in 2022, the technology company won a £1m investment from the Royal Mail Group.
