Honorary Members:
Our current honorary members include:
AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd
AAH Pharmaceuticals is the UK's leading distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products and services to pharmacies, hospitals and doctors. We supply a full range of healthcare products including ethicals, generics, PI's and OTC's delivering a reliable personalised service to our customers in local communities throughout our national network. With 3,800 employees and 20 locations across the UK over a suite of subsidiaries and brands. AAH is the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK.
Alliance Healthcare
Alliance Healthcare, the UK wholesale division of Alliance Boots, is a leading distributor and wholesaler of pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products in the UK. Alliance Healthcare offers a high level of service, with twice daily delivery and provides a full complement of added value services to pharmacies across the UK, including innovative marketing support, commercial support services and ethical compliance and data services. Alliance Healthcare operates eleven distribution centres across the UK and employs approximately 4,000 employees.
Actavis UK Ltd
Actavis is one of the world’s leading players in the generic pharmaceutical industry, committed to providing first-class generics on day one of the patent expiry. With over 370 medicines available in the UK and approximately 350 in development, Actavis has one of the broadest product portfolios and pipelines in the industry. We will continue to offer our customers high levels of service, with a sales team who are experts in reimbursement and the implications of the pharmacy contract.
Apotek Consulting is an independent consulting business focused on the strategic needs of SME businesses, with a special focus on the Healthcare Sector and particularly UK community pharmacy. We are market leaders recognised for our sector expertise, facilitating the strategic and financial needs of businesses in this sector. This includes the development of long-term strategic plans, business turnaround solutions and extensive experience of long-terms debt finance into the UK independent pharmacy sector.
AstraZeneca
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With a clear focus on client relationships, Barclays Corporate provides integrated banking solutions to businesses with an annual turnover of more than £5 million or its currency equivalent. We serve our clients via a global network of relationship, industry sector and product specialist managers, who provide tailored solutions to meet their needs. These include lending, risk management, trade, cash and liquidity management, and specialist asset and sales financing. For more information please contact Robert Moore at robert.moore@barclayscorporate.com or view www.barclayscorporate.com
Established for over 25 years, The BAPTT Group provides a specialist design, shopfitting and consultancy service to the Pharmacy industry. Our designs are focused on the individual requirements of each pharmacy, achieving a shopfitting solution based on specific demographics budget stipulation and corporate identity.BAPTT can demonstrate a proven track record of achievement nationwide, with many award winning pharmacies available for reference. Combine the expert knowledge of pharmacy with our creative design and manufacture skills, the result is a successful pharmacy, fit for the stringent demands of the future
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Boehringer Ingelheim LtdBoehringer Ingelheim is dedicated to the research and development of medical products to improve, sustain and care for life
Buttercups Training
Consilient Health Ltd
Consilient Health markets and distributes quality generic pharmaceuticals throughout Europe directly to pharmacies. Our innovative business model results in significant cost savings, which we in turn share with our customers. With the help of our network of manufacturers in Europe, Consilient Health has proven to be a reliable and committed generics supplier you can trust. Our products are regulated, licensed, and clinically validated to be safe. We ensure the highest quality products, at very competitive prices
Cegedim RX Ltd
Cegedim Rx is the leading supplier of IT systems and services to UK community pharmacies. Its Mediphase, Nexphase and Pharmacy Manager dispensary management systems are used every day in over half of all pharmacies. Cegedim Rx is part of the CEGEDIM Group of companies, a major supplier of healthcare technology and information services across Europe, employing over 4,500 people and with an annual turnover in excess of €500 million.
Charles Russell LLP
Charles Russell is the UK's only law firm specialising in pharmacy law. We deal with all legal and ethical issues affecting community pharmacy . We provide a cost-effective specialist service in an approachable and pragmatic way. Our services include advice on legal and ethical issues; dealing with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and other enforcement agencies; carrying out audits of head office functions and SOPs to verify compliance; and handling the sale and purchase of pharmacy businesses. Our publication Pharmacy Business - A Guide for Buyers and Sellers is available to download from the Charles Russell website http://www.cr-law.co.uk/publications/viewpub.asp?pubid=222. Charles Russell is a top 50 full service City legal practice with offices in London, Guildford, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Oxford and Geneva.
Ceuta Healthcare Group Ltd
CEUTA HEALTHCARE are recognised as the leading outsourcing sales and marketing company within the UK Healthcare & Beauty market, offering a uniquely intelligent and proven approach to our Industry and our partners.Our core activities include:Syndicated or Dedicated Pharmacy Teams; Total Management and representation of brands in all trade channels, i.e. Pharmacy, Grocery, Healthfood, National Accounts; Total UK Brand Management, Representation, Marketing, Advertising, Logistics etc.; Brand Fostering; Brand Licensing Agreements; Medicine Management / Enhanced Services; GP, Hospitals, Dispensing Doctors / Detailing; and Veterinary Support. Our team and structure has a depth of knowledge, understanding and expertise both of today's marketplace and more importantly a vision for the future.
Comedis International Ltd
Comedis is a unique online resource for retail pharmacists, buying groups, wholesales, and manufacturers. We offer pharmacists ordering with scheduling and access to promotions, training, information from leading manufacturers and suppliers within the OTC and Health & Beauty industry. Comedis is a fast, online platform to source and order OTC medicines and Health & Beauty products. The site allows placing of orders 24/7, saving both time and paperwork. All goods are invoiced in exactly the same way by the wholesaler with the appropriate discounts being applied. Pharmacists are now able to customise the information they want to see on the system, therefore allowing easy access to important information.
We specialise in the supply of Generics, Parallel Imports and Surgical medicines to Pharmacies across the UK. Also a preferred supplier to all the major buying groups, we boast many years of experience delivering nationwide which has given us the knowledge and expertise to offer a superior and unique service in the market. We operate from eight distribution centres. Our extensive Generics portfolio includes the exclusive Almus range which is well sought after by Pharmacists and their patients.
For all enquiries please contact our Sales Co-ordinator Rachel Wintle at the Head office number 01372 740004 or see www.cordiahealthcare.co.uk
CST Pharma LTd
Generics [UK] Ltd
Generics [UK] Ltd is a leading generic company with a portfolio of over 350 products and supplying over 60 million packs of medication annually to the UK market.Generics [UK] Ltd is a division of Mylan Inc, the third largest generic company worldwide, employing more than 11,000 people with a global presence in more than 90 countries. Mylan's broad product offering includes more than 570 products and the world's second largest portfolio of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). For more information about Generics [UK] Ltd, please visit http://www.generics.uk.com
GlaxoSmithkline Pharma UK
GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare UK
IMS Health (UK)
IPS Extemp Labs
Johnson & Johnson Lifescan
A Menarini Diagnostics U
MACH4 is the UK’s leading manufacturer in automated medicines management and dispensing. With over 10 ten years experience in the healthcare sector. MACH4 develops, manufactures, installs and services all our systems – nowhere else will you find such a complete solution. MACH4 employs experts and engineers to create bespoke solutions for every kind of pharmacy. Quality is never compromised. Our product range provides a vital foundation on which to build the pharmacy of tomorrow.
Mawdsleys
As the UK's largest independent pharmaceutical wholesaler, we provide an unrivalled wholesale service to independent pharmacy, hospitals, dispensing doctors and international markets. Extensive stocks, including generics and PI's, combine with operational efficiency to give our clients the service they come to rely on.
McNeil Products Ltd
Merck Serono Ltd
Mundays Solicitors
Mundays LLP is one of the UK's leading law firms in the pharmacy sector having been involved with clients in the pharmacy industry for over 20 years. Our expertise in the industry includes all aspects of the following:
- pharmacy sales and acquisitions, acting for both multiples and independents;
- regulatory matters in relation to pharmacy contracts;
- employment matters;
- property and dispute resolution;
- property management
NAPP Pharmaceuticals LtdWe are part of a worldwide association of independent pharmaceutical companies that have been developing vital new drugs for more than half a century. We pioneered the creation of prolonged release drugs, particularly for the relief of severe pain. Our development of controlled-release morphine sulphate tablets (MST® Continus® tablets) was a world first, and we now produce 18 analgesics in 52 different formulations. We also produce a number of other medicines for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and gastrointestinal problems.
Positive Solutions Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
The firms of the PricewaterhouseCoopers global network (www.pwc.com) provide industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders. More than 140,000 people in 149 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.
Pfizer Inc, founded in 1849, is dedicated to better health and greater access to healthcare for people and their valued animals. Every day, colleagues in more than 150 countries work to discover, develop, manufacture and deliver quality, clinically effective prescription medicines to patients. In the UK, Pfizer has its European R&D headquarters at Sandwich and its UK business headquarters in Surrey, and is the major supplier of medicines to the NHS. Pfizer invested over £5.4 billion worldwide (£104 million per week) in R&D in 2008.
PharmaSys
Quantum Pharmaceutical Ltd is a dedicated pharmaceutical specials manufacturer licensed by the MHRA to supply pharmacies, chemist, dispensing doctors and hospitals with bespoke medicines, which are tailor-made to meet the requirements of individual patients. Our unrivalled product range of over 22,000 products ensures Quantum are the only true ‘one-stop-shop’ for specials. We are open from 8am to 10pm to assist with your orders and enquires. All deliveries arrive next day by noon as standard. Please contact our dedicated customer support team on 08000 439 372 for further information.
RBS / Royal Banks of Scotland
The Rx Systems management team has worked together for over 15 years and has a wealth of experience and knowledge of the community pharmacy market in the UK.
Rx Systems continues to develop new and innovative products and services to support over 2,500 ProScript® users; assisting them in navigating through primary care requirements and giving them a competitive edge in a rapidly changing market.
Rx Systems is also part of EMIS Group plc , the UK's leading primary care software supplier with more than 20 years experience in delivering software and services to GPs. This partnership means that Rx Systems' customers will benefit from the development of 'joined up' healthcare solutions for the primary care sector. Together, Rx Systems and EMIS are exploring and pushing back the boundaries of system integration and interoperability to benefit pharmacies, GPs and patients alike
Sandoz Ltd UK
Saffery Champness
The Specials Laboratory Ltd
The Specials Laboratory is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of unlicensed medicines for the retail pharmaceutical and healthcare markets. Founded in 1999 and recently listed in the Sunday Times’ Fast Track 100, we serve the needs of over 5000 pharmacy customers across the UK, delivering 97% or orders within 24-48 hours. Our experienced team of pharmacists and technicians manufacture a comprehensive range of non-sterile products and have access to a wide range of unique dosage delivery systems.
Stone Healthcare Ltd
Teva UK Ltd
Teva is the UK's leading generics manufacturer. With over 500 products, it can supply some 90% of a pharmacist's generics needs. But it’s also a leader in supporting pharmacy, whether it’s through its innovative generics livery that’s designed to reduce dispensing errors; or its award-winning customer support programmes that are meant to provide great value and service for the independent multiple pharmacy. For more information, call our customer service helpline on 0800 590502.
Vertex Law
Venalink
Wockhardt UK Ltd
Winthrop Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd
Formerly Sterwin Medicines, Winthrop Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd was created in December 2004. For more than 20 years the company has been supplying UK pharmacies with some of the key generic medicines in the industry with a strong product heritage in analgesics. Currently the fastest growing generic company in the UK, our focus & commitment lies in supplying our customers with high quality generic pharmaceuticals at a competitive price. (The Company website is currently under construction and due to be launched in the latter part of 2007.)