Bruce Annabel
Can pharmacy find its ‘jazz hands’?
Could the 7CPA become the driving force for change in community pharmacy? Or will it still stick to the old standards? Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour look at the options …
Fit for leadership
There are 10 qualities that stand out in all effective leaders, say Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour If you go to the gym for an hour, having previously embraced relaxation, …
Smooth sailing or a wild ride?
As community pharmacy sails into a new reality, Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour present their top five initiatives that will help you innovate, thrive and survive With our 2018 Christmas …
The leadership vacuum
Are pharmacists taking the lead in running their own businesses? Or are they outsourcing too much of this role to others? Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour take a look at …
At sixes and sevens
Consumer surveys that tell you how satisfied pharmacy customers are with the service they receive are rubbish, say Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour Recently one of us commented that some …
What’s in a name?
Words count. While the saying is ‘talk is cheap’, what you say and how you say it can actually mean a lot, writes Chris Brooker In today’s world we’re being …
A broken chain: pharmacy’s supply crisis
The damaged pharmacy supply chain is creating the current (and future) spate of out of stock medicines, says Bruce Annabel Price disclosure has damaged all supply chain participants including wholesalers, …
Supply chain: price cuts moderating but damage done
On 1 April a number of large volume drugs managed to avoid a sizable price cut, however the pharmaceutical supply chain has already suffered serious damage says Bruce Annabel. The …
A softer cut
Price disclosure changes not as bad as they seem on paper: experts The latest listed changes to the PBS represent a ‘watering down’ of previous heavy discounts, say experts as …
Banks see real risk: Annabel
An article on bank lending behaviour for pharmacy businesses over the weekend may have implied that the Government was currently considering deregulating pharmacy, but its warning to pharmacy remains valid, …
Pharmacy sees worth in surf
Pharmacy stalwarts back the world’s most gruelling surfboat marathon. Pharmacy business expert and AJP columnist Bruce Annabel, and Gary Cairns, who established Capital Chemist with Roger Tall in the 1980s, …
Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement roundup: what stakeholders said
The Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement was signed on Wednesday, and reaction has been mostly positive, with a few exceptions. Most industry commentators praised the Guild’s introduction of the new Administration, …