Hub And Spoke

A Government publication paves the way for a consultation in the coming months.

Pharmacist Ade Williams said hub and spoke could be “a death knell for independents.”

A study has found 43 per cent of pharmacies do not have time to offer more services.

Nick Kaye says it sounds like a great idea but it throws up all sorts of concerns for independents. 

CMA should “look into” hub and spoke dispensing to ensure fairness, says NPA.

Hub and spoke is not for everyone but it can stop independents losing control to big companies, says the founder of Pharmacy2U 

Work on a large-scale dispensing hub for independent pharmacies is to start "immediately," HubRx has said. 

Allowing hub and spoke dispensing to operate across separate pharmacy businesses could have “unintended consequences" says Steve Brine. 

There will be a consultation on hub and spoke working for all community pharmacies in England, pharmacy minister Jo Churchill has said.

Daniel Lee puts the case for hub and spoke in independent pharmacies.

The hub and spoke model poses significant risks that need to be addressed, sector stakeholders have found.

A new facility aimed at giving independent pharmacies access to hub and spoke technology is expected to commence operations in early 2022.

Pharmacy2U founder Daniel Lee has announced plans for an £8m dispensing facility he claims will “level the playing field” between independents and multiples.

There is little existing evidence that hub and spoke saves money or improves patient safety, the NPA claimed.

Well Pharmacy expects to dispense about 43.2 million prescriptions annually via a central hub based in Stoke-on-Trent.

Are hub and spoke models the way forward in improving standards in dispensing and pharmacy healthcare generally? 

LloydsPharmacy parent company McKesson UK has said it plans to double its automated dispensing capacity by June 2020.

The new dispensing facility will eventually assemble around 16 million repeat prescriptions a year for the Rowlands group.