Blog from Cegedim Rx

Modern pharmacies face a plethora of opportunities to move away from being primarily dispensers of medication, to a more central part of community healthcare. Initiatives like Pharmacy First not only...

Community pharmacies continue to shift from their traditional role of dispensers towards a more integrated part of community healthcare. Able to offer more clinically focussed and personalised...

Finding ways to be more efficient and improve operations has always been a focus for community pharmacists struggling with fluctuating drug prices, funding cuts and difficulties securing...

As the role of pharmacies evolves further away from purely dispensing medication into a more central part of clinical and community healthcare, the opportunities to expand services and take advantage...

Around one in 20 patients in the UK waits an average of four weeks to see a GP from the date an appointment is booked. GPs are under huge pressure to deal with growing patient lists and older...

With hundreds of thousands of patients receiving same-day consultations with their local pharmacist after calling NHS 111 or their local GP - for minor illnesses that would have otherwise required a...

Community pharmacists face around 1.2m health related visits every day, making them one of the most visited healthcare providers. Far from the traditional transaction based model of dispensing...

Pharmacy services are undergoing an evolution from the traditional dispensing model towards a more person centred approach to patient care. Community pharmacists already play a much bigger role in...

The future pharmacy isn’t just a place for patients to collect prescriptions and medications.It’s a clinical hub providing local health services for a wider range of conditions and illnesses, as well...

Many community pharmacies continue to operate under severe financial pressures.Funding cuts and price fluctuations mean many pharmacies are selling medicines at cost, or sometimes at a loss, pushing...

We all know what it’s like to wake up feeling slightly unwell and our first instinct being to get on the phone to our GP at that 8am window to try and book an appointment. But with patients waiting...

For pharmacists willing to embrace it, Pharmacy First has the potential to open up new avenues for revenue that have never existed previously, while also transforming patient access to a wider range...