28 September 2023

Bestway Healthcare Updates

Pharmacy Leadership Team Conference

Andrew Caplan, Chief Retail Officer, hosted the annual Pharmacy Leadership Team conference on 13th and 14th September, which brought together leaders from across the business in a two-day event and included key speakers, awards and a variety of workshops. The conference was an opportunity to engage with a variety of different businesses and leadership topics supporting the development and growth of our teams. 

Flu season is coming, and we are ‘Well’ prepared. 

As the UK’s leading independent pharmacy chain, we are delighted to have launched a brand-new digital e-voucher platform for our annual flu jab scheme, which allows businesses to easily share flu vouchers with colleagues using email and unique flu voucher codes. 

Flu is usually the biggest cause of sick days in the UK, accounting for an average of 5.7 days off from work each year. As well as costing the UK economy an estimated £29 billion every year, the flu costs businesses an average of £522 per employee annually, highlighting the importance of offering and making the flu jab accessible to employees.

Our digital e-voucher platform service not only offers easy accessibility, but many more benefits including quick and easy sharing through quick email access, up-front pricing and invoicing, and easy viewing of voucher usage.

George Sandhu, Deputy Superintendent Pharmacist, said: “We know that flu can play havoc with how a business runs at what can be its busiest time – the pre-Christmas rush. Signing up to provide flu jabs for your staff is a relatively inexpensive way to protect your business, your staff and their loved ones, and we want to make getting them in place as easy as possible, the scheme easy to administer to save you time and for it to be easy for your colleagues to be able to get their flu jab when it suits them best.” Flu jabs are available in all our pharmacies. You can book here - Flu vaccine and winter flu jab services UK – Well Pharmacy

Chemist And Druggist Awards – Celebrating success. 

A great evening was had by our colleagues at the annual C&D Award evening earlier this month. With our recruitment team nominated for the Diversity and Inclusion Award, Memory Chimini shortlisted for the Community Pharmacist of the Year and Megan Lafferty shortlisted for Pharmacy Staff Member of the Year it was a fabulous evening with lots to celebrate. 

Covid vaccinations

Our Covid-19 vaccination programme was brought forward a month by the NHS as a precautionary measure in response to the new variant of concern. At Well Pharmacy we have over 170 pharmacies across all 4 nations providing Covid-19 vaccinations.

Eligible people are:

• residents in a care home for older adults
• all adults aged 65 years and over.
• persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book
• frontline health and social care workers
• persons aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts, as defined in the Green Book, of people with immunosuppression.
• persons aged 16 to 64 years who are carers, as defined in the Green Book, and staff working in care homes for older adults.