Pharmaceutical Industry News

Pharmacy Consulting Ltd (PCL) can offer the Pharmaceutical Industry valuable services both in developing and defending brands as patent expiry approaches, as well as in developing industry supported information based services for community pharmacists that they will value.

It is often possible for example for PCL to pre-identify how many generic competitors there will be prior to a branded patent expiry, where the API will come from and at what cost the generic can be made and sold.

PCL can also provide feedback to the Industry on how community pharmacsts in particular are likely to respond to anticipated industry initiatives, and to help shape those initiatives so as to make them more palatable and thefore also make them more effective

PCL can also offer the industry advice on product packaging both from community pharmacist and patient perspectives.

PCL believe that there is much to be gained by the industry working more closely particularly with independent community pharmacists and offers its services to bring the two groups closer together

Have you a branded ethical product that you wish to support and to develop the sales of in the marketplace?

Why not consider re-directing some of your marketing budget towards using a network of professional community pharmacies to support that product. Pharmacy Consulting Ltd has connections with networks of high quality Pharmacies throughout the UK to support you. Pharmacy Consulting Ltd can project manage the project for you and evaluate the results.

Some pharmacists can now prescribe, making them still more attractive as a resource to support professionally designed Medicines Management projects

Patients want more information about the purpose & effects of their medicines.

An article in the Pharmaceutical Journal August 2nd 2003 page 141, suggests that patients want more information than they get. A Funded Medicines Management project, can ensure that pharmacists in participating pharmacies spend quality time passing appropriate messages to an agreed protocol to patients who are prescribed your medication,

Projects

Medicines Management Projects via Pharmacy Consulting Ltd, can therefore convert more initial prescriptions to long term motivated patients. Such patients, who better understand their condition and its treatment, thereby become long term beneficiaries of your treatment coming back for regular long-term repeat prescriptions, instead of presenting only once for treatment and dispensing.