For Pharmacy Owners
As a Pharmacy Owner, you have many challenges and pressures to deal with along with running a busy healthcare facility. Training, ensuring compliance, regulations, staff retention and engagement are some of the problems we can help with.
Investing in staff training and development is not a ‘nice to have’ it is a hygiene factor for all staff. It is also mandated by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI). Maintaining records and providing continued training is a requirement for your business.
You can look at training as a ‘Cost’ or an ‘Investment’
At 4 Front Pharmacy Online we work with you to ensure you see training as an ‘investment’. An investment in your business, your livelihood, your staff and your community.
The return on your Investment will be:
Quality of pharmacy interactions
The greatest protection business has is to ensure all consultations are carried out to the highest level and in line with expected standards. Implementing 4 Front Pharmacy Online training was associated with:
- 75% Increase in WWHHAAMM Q*
- 171% Increase in Pharmacist Consultations*
- 275% increase in understanding of prescription*
- 200% increase in ‘Intervention Rate’ (potential problems)*
*Based on Baseline Pharmacy Assessment (January 2019) and repeat assessment at 6 months (June 2019)
Financial benefits
Based on research with pilot pharmacy group, benchmarking against Grant Thornton Retail Excellence Irish Pharmacy Sector Sales Review 2019, implementing 4Front Pharmacy Online contributed to:
- 7% Group Turnover Increase
- 23% Average OTC product sales increase
- 231% Return on training investment (in 6 months)
- The significant difference between training and non-trained staff/ therapy areas
- Reduced training and administrative costs
Financial Return based on OTC Product Training
Client Testimonial
Joe Haire, CEO Kissane’s Pharmacy Group
4Front Pharmacy Online can be incorporated into a weekly training schedule for all users, without the need to travel or be off-premises. With most courses taking just under 30 minutes to complete, it allows all staff to remain at work and to engage at a suitable time for them, easily incorporated into a working week. It also allows new staff to be trained immediately and offers complete guidance to part-time staff.
Because 4 Front Pharmacy offers courses in a variety of topics, all your training from Product knowledge, consultation skills, and business knowledge is covered in a single purchase.
Research into user engagement with 4Front Pharmacy Online has shown
Engagement Levels Impact of 4Front Pharmacy Online
| Measure | Result |
| Staff Training Engagement Range (depending on pharmacy store) | 68-93% |
| Average time to module completion (weekly modules) | 26 mins |
| Product Knowledge Confidence Increase | +82% |
| Positive User Reaction | +88% |
Pharmacy Owner Testimonies
“Our people are our product. It has always worried me that our part-time staff members are less safe and less responsive to the needs of our patients than our better trained full-time staff. 4Front Pharmacy brings equality to our training model, as every member of staff, irrespective of how many hours they work each week, has equal access to online training. I cannot tell you how much this means to me as superintendent pharmacist”
Ciara
Superintendent Pharmacist
“I love that at a click of a button, I can keep track of all my staff’s training as it is my responsibility to ensure they are trained to a consistently high standard. From a patient safety, regulatory compliance and risk reduction point of view, it ticks all the boxes.”
Ger
Superintendent Pharmacist
“We added a new pharmacy to our group recently. The OTC staff had zero formal training and the technicians had received zero training since their graduation. Before using 4FrontPharmacy.ie, we would have been waiting for months, even years to ensure all staff had completed face to face training. Now, we can get their training started instantly, and enable them to integrate with our existing company training and development program. This has helped raise the quality of service, and smooth the integration of new staff into our company culture”
Joe Haire
CEO Kissane’s Pharmacy Group