TECHNOLOGY: Leadership in pharmacy
By Tariq Muhammad
What skills does a pharmacist need these days? You’d think it would be sufficient to have a good understanding of pharmacy and...
The Future in Reusable Bags: A Retail Guide
The environmental crisis has led to a shift in consumer behavior, pushing retail industries towards more sustainable practices. Among these practices, the use of...
Rising Tide of Alternative Energy: Paving the Way Towards a Sustainable Future
The value placed on energy in today’s society cannot be overstated. From domestic to commercial uses, power is one of the most essential resources...
TECHNOLOGY: Fit for the future
Tariq Muhammad considers how layouts are a key to modernisation and why pharmacies need a digital and physical harmony…
An increasingly common question I get...
TECHNOLOGY: Pharmacists working from home
Tariq Muhammad considers how innovative technology can be used to allow pharmacists to work from home...
One evening whilst I was watching TV, my phone...
REALITY CHECK: The uneven playing field of hub and spoke
Louise Laban argues that the government’s latest impact assessment into the ‘hub and spoke’ model of dispensing suggests the cost of a hub is...
The Rapid Growth of Turkey’s Medical Tourism Industry
Over the past two decades, Turkey has established itself as a global superpower in the medical space. This is primarily due to the nation's...
TECHNOLOGY: Peer-to-peer dispensing
Tariq Muhammad considers how the 'hub and spoke' legislation could give rise to new innovation…
Talk of hub and spoke models has been rumbling on...
What are Pareto charts used for?
A Pareto chart is a graphical tool used to display the relative proportions of occurrence of different values. In business and quality improvement applications,...
TECHNOLOGY: Holding onto pharmacists
Tariq Muhammad considers the demand for pharmacists and how community pharmacies can compete…
Pharmacist shortages and spiralling locum costs have set the heads spinning of...
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