Should MURs be scrapped and replaced with something different

[LeftArm]

I agree that increased workload requires increased resources and that MUR have been introduced with no extra resources being provided.
With the remuneration for the service being deducted from purchase profits it puts employers, both multiples and independents, in a difficult position.
Taking a drop in remuneration by not doing MUR's could lead to a need to lose staff. This would put current services under more pressure. There is also the risk that not doing them will lead to the PCT granting a contract to another pharmacy that will do them.
Pharmacy as an industry needs to fight for proper remuneration for proper professional services.
Employers are caught between a rock and a hard place.

[Web Ferret]

Hello everyone. i qualified this year and have recently accepted a job with a multiple. After doing a few locums and reading this thread, I am worried that my working life will be made difficult because of MUR targets. I am starting to feel that I have made the wrong career choice. I didn't go to university for four years to put up with this on a daily basis. What do I do? Is there a way of getting out of doing them? Any advice will be really appreciated.

Expect to do extended services now as that's the way that community pharmacy is going given the current funding method. It is possible to move sideways as a pharmacist and not do community work.

It depends on the multiple. If the advert was full of "maximising business opportunities" and "targets" then they don't give a hoot about the patients just how many MURs you have done this week, not how many patients have you helped/saved from a dodgy script written by a receptionist.