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Are you ready for Christmas?

Posted on December 16, 2014
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Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year for health services and particularly pharmacy services. Make sure you do your bit to help reduce the strain on the health service. Ask your pharmacist for advice today on keeping a well stocked self care kit that will help you and your family deal with any minor ailments over the busy Christmas Season. A self care kit should be kept in a cool, secure, dry place, out of reach of children and pets. Keep medicines in their original containers, with original…Read more …

Change Management

Posted on December 15, 2014
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Many of you will be planning changes for your pharmacy in 2015, and if you are today's blog post will hopefully maximise your change management strategies. If you haven't started yet, hopefully this will be a great starting point for future change! This article is a summary of a blog post by Torben Rick. To access the full content click here. Most change management initiatives fail. This is because most fail to consider how changes affect the people in an organisation. To successfully implement change initiatives, organisational leaders must identify the need…Read more …

Pharmapod Community Christmas Countdown

Posted on December 11, 2014
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Over the next 14 days we will share an important community message each morning to highlight some of the wonderful work, much of it voluntary, that is done in communities across Ireland. Hopefully this will highlight the work you yourself may do, or help inspire you to support those less fortunate this Christmas. As we grow older basic household tasks can become very difficult to manage. Tasks such as cleaning, checking smoke alarms, wrapping presents, and putting up decorations can be very challenging and put the person at risk of falls or injury.…Read more …