The Pharmacy Business Accelerator

Investing in Your Pharmacy

This intensive session will consider the best business structure for you when either buying or setting up your pharmacy. The presentation will include some useful tax planning tips for you and your business:

• What is the best business structure for you? 
• What are the advantages of incorporating your business or is it better to operate as a sole trader?
• How to secure finance and finance options
• How to get the best out of your team of advisors
• How can you be more tax efficient?

Riz Aktar, Partner, RA Accountants

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Driving Income Growth in Challenging Times

Creating sustainable income growth should be the key priority for any independent community pharmacy in a changing pharmacy landscape. 

Throughout this session, you will see how by creating a pharmacy environment that concentrates on business efficiencies and patient care, you can continue to drive income into your business through these challenging times.

Tony Mottram, Managing Director, Numark & Guest Speaker

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Understanding Tomorrow Today

AAH Pharmacist Ajit Malhi highlights the importance of marketing your pharmacy to the consumer – the challenges, the opportunities and future proofing of your business.

Ajit Malhi, Resident Pharmacist, AAH Pharmaceuticals

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Let’s Get Engaged!

This looks at the case for ‘Self care’ and how to talk to those around us that might benefit from it. 

At this informative and often amusing presentation, you will learn what resources are available for you to change the dialogue you have with your GPs/PCT, and what evidence base there is that pharmacy can, and does, make a difference.

Trevor Gore, Sales Development Controller, Reckitt Benckiser

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Real World Pharmacy Inside and Out: Making the most of your Local Community

Pharmacist Brian Deal of Ashwell Pharmacy takes a look at how you can get maximum benefit from promoting opportunities within your pharmacy.

Brian Deal, Ashwell Pharmacy

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The Three Key Components to a Successful Pharmacy - Compliance, Security and Lifecycle Management

In these tough economic times, pharmacies must fulfil three key components to financially succeed and sustain brand confidence with key stakeholders.

In this fast track session, you will gain an understanding of how to achieve accuracy, security, traceability and prescription error elimination within your pharmacy through automation and product lifecycle management.

Stephen Larder, Regional Manager for Healthcare, PRISYM ID

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"The Exit Strategy" and Succession Planning

Ideally pharmacy owners should set up their business with the view to sell at some point in the future. During this invaluable session you will learn:

• How to prepare your personal finances and your business finances for exiting your business;
• Ways to maximise your wealth at sale by planning to minimise your taxes.

Riz Aktar, Partner, RA Accountants

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Protection When You Need It - Pharmacy Professional Indemnity

• Insurance for community pharmacy
• A risky business? Explaining professional indemnity, public liability and legal defence 
• The current state of the market
• Case studies and tips for mitigating risk

Glyn Walduck, Head of Claims, National Pharmacy Association Insurance

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Community Pharmacy – Delivering Effective Promotions

• Do your customers think your retail offer is good value for money?
• Are you maximising your retail offer and growing your sales?
• Does your promotional pricing strategy protect & grow your retail profit?

If you answered ‘No’ to the above statements, or believe these are areas where you could improve, then this workshop is for you.

Running effective promotions will attract customers into your pharmacy, increase their average spend and build their loyalty to your pharmacy.  Through understanding the principles of promotions and how they work you will be able to grow your retail sales and maximise your profit.

Richard Janes, Retail Consultant, Alphega Pharmacy

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Innovative Ideas to Boost Patient Loyalty

Throughout this session, you will see how you can effect a change on the patient journey and reduce the burden on community healthcare by developing patient loyalty for independent community pharmacy. 

You will walk away from this session understanding the benefits of creating patient loyalty through service provision, patient intervention and niche offerings.

Tony Mottram, Managing Director, Numark + Guest Speaker

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Investing in Your Pharmacy

This intensive session will consider the best business structure for you when either buying or setting up your pharmacy. The presentation will include some useful tax planning tips for you and your business.

• What is the best business structure for you?
• What are the advantages of incorporating your business or is it better to operate as a sole trader?
• How to secure finance and finance options
• How to get the best out of your team of advisors
• How can you be more tax efficient?

Riz Aktar, Partner, RA Accountants

PRESENTED BY:

Session Details To Be Confirmed

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The Three Key Components to a Successful Pharmacy - Compliance, Security and Lifecycle Management

In these tough economic times, pharmacies must fulfil three key components to financially succeed and sustain brand confidence with key stakeholders.

In this fast track session, you will gain an understanding of how to achieve accuracy, security, traceability and prescription error elimination within your pharmacy through automation and product lifecycle management.

Stephen Larder, Regional Manager for Healthcare, PRISYM ID

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Eats, Shoots and Leaves

A humorous presentation that looks at the pitfalls of communication managing to deliver a serious message in a style that is both informative and entertaining. 

It will improve the way you talk (and listen) to your staff, your customers and even your spouse.  At a recent conference it was voted “ the best talk we’ve ever had” and scored an impressive 11 out of 10 on the feedback forms.

So if you’re curious to learn why WWHAM is actually a perfect technique,  or why airlines ask the stupidest questions, come along.

Trevor Gore, Sales Development Controller, Reckitt Benckiser

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"The Exit Strategy" and Succession Planning

Ideally pharmacy owners should  set up their business with the view to sell at some point in the future. During this invaluable session you will learn:

• How to prepare your personal finances and your business finances for exiting your business
• Ways to maximise your wealth at sale by planning to minimise your taxes

Riz Aktar, Partner, RA Accountants

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