Independent Prescriber administering Botox?

[Gurj007]

Hi Guys,

I'm an independent Prescriber. I work in private hospital and I want to branch out on my own privately and treat patients in my own right. Do any of you have any experience with this? This is a potential business venture so I'd be wanting payment for the service. I would do the relavent trainign of course to prove my competence but the areas I'm thinking of a potentials where people may pay privatly for a treatment are as follows.


Vaccination - prescribe abd administer injections

Cosmetics - consult, prescribe and administer botox / dermal fillers

Any thoughts on this?

I think pharmacists deservce a higher status then we get at the moment. I want to raise the bar for the profession. I've paid for my own training as an SP and as an IP and I feel that I'vce just gone back into a job where nothing has changed. I deserve to be paid and recognised for my high level of training and effort to get where I am and thats how I justify this on moral grounds. Any thoughts on this? Is this good for the proffession?

Any thoughts on this or ideas for me to look into would be appreciated. I'd also like to see some discussion around this.

[johnep]

You would have to be in an affluent area to be successful.
johnep

[Fleegle]

Have any advertising material proof-read. Your written English is extremely poor, to say the least.

Fleegle.

[Sir_Dispensalot]

With regard to the cosmetic side,

i think you would have to have a very large catchment area to become profitable or go into partnership / franchise with an existing cosmetic surgery clinic/group - these well may be your main competition as well.
Do you have any inroads into the business? Any connections at all who could shed some light on the procedures involved and the necessary training you would have to undertake?
Make sure you have a lot of solid background info before doing any training, and make sure you have done a good chunk of market research as well. With 'botox parties' becoming more common would you be looking at a supply role or an administration role? Or both?
Would you do an internet trade, and have an internet pharmacy contract, providing web consults and shipping diy kits to people, or would you do face-to-face (groan - sorry for the pun) consults?

Make sure you do your homework properly! It means you will have a sound business plan / strategy for presentation to other clinicians/pct's/rpsgb/investors/business partners.

How will your business approach be operated? Are you simply replicating existing arrangements with private doctors, nurses etc or will you have a unique selling point or angle?

A good idea is always followed by good background work!


On that note i do happen to think that the idea is certainly interesting and could well be profitable - once you have a sound foundation.


on the note of the vaccinations, training for administering thses is straightforward but you would have to have premises in an affluent area to take advantage of this. Unless you were to put together a team of trained HCPs along with yourself and bid for private vaccination contracts eg private flu jabs.
From what i've seen the market for private immunisation is extremely small as most can get it on the NHS. Some gp practices will administer for free. You could however try undercutting gp's if they were charging for the service of administration - eg gp charges £12 for a vaccine, you charge £5. And you risk ruining an income stream from a gp surgery.

[johnep]

Contact Juvederm.
johnep

[Tony Schofield]

I'm not quite sure what you want from the forum.................?

Do you want us to say "what a clever boy" you are? If you have a business idea take it to the market.

Where will you practice from? Who will provide your clinical supervision?

I am not sure that cosmetic interventions will improve the status of pharmacy any more than they do dentistry (you specifically made the point about increased status) but if you think you can make money from this do so.

Personally I believe that independent prescribing pharmacists in a community pharmacy setting have a fantastic opportunity so I agree with you. I would choose different areas to work in but each to their own.

However I'm not going to sit in your thrall while you tell us how clever you think you are because there are many of us who are just as well qualified, just as clever but..........we are doing it already.