Community pharmacy is a business and does need to be financially sound if it is to have a secure future. Making healthy profits allows enhanced services to patients and better care. CAPA provides the tools to give control of all branches, provide information and make significant financial savings.

Control is everything...

CAPA provides control to the decision makers that run a business. Without control, there is no business. How often are policies made at Head Office but fail due to lack of compliance. Ask branches to give a brand instead of a generic and to get it from a particular supplier - and still it does not happen. Ask branches to write items on an excess stock list and circulate this round to each branch in the hope that the company can use up its excess stock holding. The issues go on. 

CAPA provides a company to implement procedures and ensure they are followed through. From implementing equalisation deals in real-time to guaranteeing the correct supplier for any given product. Head Office can actually “watch” the branches screen and take control of the computer for training purposes. Control is not just about Head Office but can ensure that an unfamiliar locum performs tasks consistent with a patient’s care. For example, if a Care Home wants a spare label on every new drug to put on the MAR sheet, it will happen. If medication has been leant to a patient as an emergency supply, it will be prompted each time the patient presents until it is redeemed and what’s more, Head Office will know about it. Excess stock is simply identified on a screen and the other branches in the company are informed of it immediately and are prompted each time an attempt is made to dispense or order it.

Information is Essential...

Information makes decisions. What are the high value lines dispensed in every branch today. How about in the last hour? Is it worth doing a deal and buying bulk stock at a price today or not? Who owes the company money? Which pharmacist is recording the most interventions? When is the busiest or quietest time for the pharmacy? Such information can help Head Office improve margins, improve staff retention and job satisfaction. And all this information is available and consolidated at Head Office as it happens in real-time. 

Time is money...

CAPA can pretty much do everything at a press of one button or another. Special features like batch dispensing allow entire Nursing Homes with 300 prescription items to be labelled, ordered and summarised inside of 15 minutes with incredible accuracy. A process normally taking at least 4 hours in the past. If a pharmacy has many addicts, generating the labels each day can take the best part of an hour by a pharmacist, where CAPA can do this in seconds and even tell you on the last day that a new prescription is due. Time is money and saving time has huge implications on the profitability of a pharmacy.

Communications...

CAPA brings a new world of technology into the pharmacy arena, allowing branches to communicate with other branches or Head Office. Allowing communications to be sent in real-time to every pharmacist for immediate implementation. And what’s more, all communications within CAPA are free of charge.

New Opportunities...

Whether your company was considering extending its opening hours or simply wondering how to implement a new service, CAPA has a feature that can enable it. CAPA has been designed with the new Contract in mind and this respect can make everything possible. From collection and Delivery services, Care Home services through to Medicines Management. By providing the pharmacist with improved tools and the opportunity to leave the premises without having to close the pharmacy, CAPA gives the ability for pharmacists and their respective companies to become competitive in bidding for new services. 

CAPA Care Home Manager...

CAPA Care Home Manager can allow departments that cater for between 10 and 200 Care Homes to reduce their costs by huge sums. Special paperwork, facilities and algorithms control processes with incredible accuracy and efficiency, allowing a pharmacy department to process volumes with minimal overheads. Savings are REAL and can translate to thousands per annum for a branch with a number of Care Homes.

CAPA can save a business literally tens of thousands of pounds. What is CAPA worth to your business?