Offering a private Winter Health Clinic, provides your customers access to range of diagnostic testing services and convenient access to 'Prescription Only Medicines (POM)' to prevent or treat a range of winter ailments, without the need for them to visit their GP.
In addition to the benefits for your customers, private services also offering additional benefits for your pharmacy and pharmacy team including:
- Compliments existing support and advice offered in pharmacy
- Provides greater professional satisfaction
- Increases professional recognition as a healthcare provider in the local community
- Generates an additional revenue stream
Reducing the need for customers to visit their GPs also having a beneficial impact on the NHS
Working with Pharmadoctor, Numark is offering members access to a range of diagnostic test kits and private PGDs, to provide you with the legal authority to make the supply a POM , where appropriate. Supporting community pharmacy to deliver private services including
- Flu vaccination service
- Pneumococcal vaccination service
- Sore Throat ‘Test and Treat’ service (antibiotic supply)
- Flu ‘Test and Treat’ service (antiviral supply)
More information on private PGDs and additional resources to support delivery of both the Flu vaccination and Pneumoccoccal services visit NumarkNet.
On the following screens, we will provide more information on the 'Test and Treat' services.
Watch our Winter Health Services Webinar which will provide you with an overview of the health considerations over the winter period and to think about how you could support those by running a winter health service in your pharmacy. This webinar will cover the private services that you could offer during the season to provide a broader offering to your patients and customers.