Pharmacy2U

[Raju]

Any experiences / comments with the way this company operates and tries to expand its business?

[LeftArm]

I know of an area that they leaflet dropped and patients became confused as they were unsure where their scripts were coming from. Some filled in the form thinking it was a local pharmacy only to discover that their tablets came late and they had no prescription.

Pharmacy2u have their own software embedded in Emis systems that allows the surgery to send a message to P2U when the script is generated. The surgery then post the script and P2U post out the drugs. I guess that the drugs are not posted until the paper script arrives but I'm not sure?

I certainly don't like the way the surgery systems are being used to promote an individual pharmacy. Dr Manpreet Pujara is the Lead for the electronic prescription service who is also frighteningly an emis user who has spent some time as chair of the Emis user group. It's all getting a bit too cosy.

[Pharmanaut]

I know of an area that they leaflet dropped and patients became confused as they were unsure where their scripts were coming from. Some filled in the form thinking it was a local pharmacy only to discover that their tablets came late and they had no prescription.

Pharmacy2u have their own software embedded in Emis systems that allows the surgery to send a message to P2U when the script is generated. The surgery then post the script and P2U post out the drugs. I guess that the drugs are not posted until the paper script arrives but I'm not sure?

I certainly don't like the way the surgery systems are being used to promote an individual pharmacy. Dr Manpreet Pujara is the Lead for the electronic prescription service who is also frighteningly an emis user who has spent some time as chair of the Emis user group. It's all getting a bit too cosy.

Wonder who the owners of pharmacy2u are as well?
Possible overlap?

[Raju]

I was not happy when an the entire list of a local GP practice received what I felt was a very vague and rather misleading letter and pamphlet promoting pharmacy2u. It was so insidiously worded that a lot of patients came in to the pharmacy where I worked because they thought that WE had sent it out.

I genuinely wonder why the GP practice sent out a letter to their entire list promoting pharmacy2u, i.e. whether any inducements are taking place.

[Fleegle]

Wonder who the owners of pharmacy2u are as well?
Possible overlap?

Start here and keep at them...a bit of googling, and an existing publicised company model should surface..then work backwards, MD migration, key management posts becoming vacant in similar companies etc..they must have headhunted somewhere. Also try some covert emailing, then an IP search based on company location, and employee proximity...can't be bothered myself, but could be easy enough.





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  Pharmacy2U Ltd
  1 Hawthorn Park
  Coal Road
  Leeds
  Yorkshire
  LS14 1PQ
  
  Tel: 0845 803 9033
  Email: daniel@pharmacy2u.co.uk

[LeftArm]

Sean Riddell
Non-executive Director (Pharmacy2U)

Sean is currently the Managing Director of EMIS (Egton Medical Information Systems), the UK’s leading provider of General Practice clinical systems.
Pharmacy2U - Your Internet Pharmacy

[Pharmanaut]

Sean Riddell
Non-executive Director (Pharmacy2U)

Sean is currently the Managing Director of EMIS (Egton Medical Information Systems), the UK’s leading provider of General Practice clinical systems.
Pharmacy2U - Your Internet Pharmacy

No vested interest there then is there.

[LeftArm]

www.medsrequest.co.uk

How many of you have seen the mailshot for this new EMIS/Pharmacy2u service?
30p per request? Seems a lot to me what do you think?

This service should be provided as part of the EPS specification but the designers couldn't think any further that an electronic version of the FP10.

[johnep]

During postal strikes and on Bank Holidays, I have had pharmacy2u customers come in for ES, but they all think we will loan the meds FOC and then they can bring in tablets etc when received from p2u.
They can get quite irate when we say cannot do because meds cannot be obtained from anywhere than oficial sources and if brought in would have to doop.
johnep

[Pharmanaut]

During postal strikes and on Bank Holidays, I have had pharmacy2u customers come in for ES, but they all think we will loan the meds FOC and then they can bring in tablets etc when received from p2u.
They can get quite irate when we say cannot do because meds cannot be obtained from anywhere than oficial sources and if brought in would have to doop.
johnep

Yes, same thing happened to me 2nd January.
Usual answer 'well you are all working for the NHS aren't you?'
30p per pop is a bit much - one-third of the dispensing fee.
Anyway, EPSR2 repeat management will make this unnecessary.