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September 26th 2024

DDA24: "There is not enough understanding of the dispensary as a business"

There is not enough understanding of how the dispensary is performing as a business. Ensuring losses are minimised is essential to protect your business. Those are the key messages from Dispensing Doctor Experts in the day one DDA 2024 conference

September 26th 2024

DDA24: Overcoming adversity in the dispensary

At the DDA 24 conference, Queen Camel Medical Centre GP Dr Daniel Edmonds presented a case study of a new dispensary build. In a presentation entitled, Overcoming Adversity in Our Dispensary, Dr Edmonds outlined the five-year process to build an ext

September 25th 2024

DDA24: Look out for generics

Generics are one area where there are common themes of good and bad practice, the DDA Conference heard on Day One. Presenting ‘Key Points to Maximise Dispensary Profitability’, Prad Savania, director of Dispensing Doctor Solutions said t

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September 25th 2024

DDA24: GPCE quizzed over future of dispensing

GPCE Deputy Chair and Dispensing Negotiating Lead Dr Julius Parker has pledged to ask GPCE for a statement recognising the discrimination facing dispensing practices over dispensing pay. In a question and answer session held to close the morni

September 25th 2024

DDA24: CQC opens conference with inspection hints and tips

Medicines optimisation is a priority quality statement for GPs, and all inspections (unless specific follow ups) will include this, said Mary Collier, medicines manager, Care Quality Commission, medicines optimisation team, opening the conference pro

September 19th 2024

DDA member highlights medicine shortages to BBC

DDA member Willingham by Stow Surgery, Lincolnshire has highlighted in the national media the impact on dispensing GPs of medicines shortages. Speaking to BBC News, partner GP Dr Dan Lane said he spends the equivalent of three patient appointments a

September 13th 2024

DDA publishes two think-pieces

The DDA has published two think-pieces: In response to the Lord Darzi investigation and in defence of the independent contractor model, Dr West has written to the Times newspaper. He points out Lord Darzi's conclusion that general practices have the