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       What are the costs to implement Pharmacist-led prescription
       management service?
   DIR By: admini5
       Date: May 12, 2015, 4:13 am
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       The set-up costs are negligible compared to the savings. An
       investment of time is needed to establish demand for the service
       among local GP practices and to increase pharmacist capacity
       accordingly. In Walsall’s case this was initially done by
       increasing the hours worked by willing pharmacists in their
       service level agreements (SLAs). This provided sufficient
       capacity for 14 practices. As demand increased to 56 practices,
       it was necessary to recruit more pharmacists.
       Increasing capacity through SLAs or recruitment is a recurrent
       cost and has been factored into the calculation of net savings.
       Both these activities also require some investment of time as a
       one-off cost, which is negligible compared with the net savings.
       For further information on the topic please go to :
  HTML https://www.nice.org.uk/Media/.../14-0001-qp-pharmacist-led-rpms.pdf
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