Pharmacy Reform launch
October 31, 2011
PHARMACY group, Reform
Management, debuted its wares to
pharmacists over the weekend at
its official launch Conference.
The group, is founded by the same
Director as Health and Savings,
Peter Nelson, and is, according to
Nelson, all about industry reform.
“With the current industry
reform’s coming up the company is
about both reforming the
pharmacies and reforming the
suppliers, so they’re all working
together to maximise growth,”
Nelson said.
Speaking to PD at the conference,
Nelson said the idea germination
for the company started four years
ago, with its creation and launch in
direct response to pharmacy and
supplier feedback.
“Suppliers were unhappy with
compliance: they’ve been offering
deals to pharmacies but a lot of
pharmacies aren’t actually using
those deals, and from pharmacists’
side of things they’ve been paying a
lot of groups fees but not getting
the benefits of paying those fees,”
he said.
Reform is free for pharmacists to
join, has no contracts or ongoing
fees, and according to Nelson,
offers higher wholesale terms, as
well as better generic and over-thecounter
medicine deals, than other
major pharmacy groups.
“It’s an easy thing for pharmacists
to choose what part of the Reform
package that they actually want,”
Nelson said, adding that
pharmacists can break up the
Reform offering and take only the
parts that they want.
“For instance they may want our
wholesale deal but not our generics
deal and that’s okay,” he said.
“That way it’s better for the
pharmacy because they are
compliant to what they are
choosing, and it’s better for the
supplier because they actually have
pharmacies that are willing to use
their product,” he added.
In addition pharmacists are not
restricted to Reform’s preferred
suppliers.
Since its launch on 01 September
Nelson said the group had been
inundated with interest from
pharmacies, with 14 having signed
up last month alone.
“It’s moving along at a rapid
rate,” he said.
For more Reform details visit
www.reformmanagement.com.au.
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