Running a pharmacy can be an exciting way to earn a living and at the same time very profitable. Pharmacists are a lot better paid than many other professions. All right, you’re not quite up there with a consultant brain surgeon, but nonetheless it is an important job and serves to maintain the health of your customers. However, when you run a pharmacy there can be situations whereyou have staff absent from work for one reason or another. This could be due to ill health, an accident, bereavement leave, paternity leave, getting called away on jury service, getting delayed abroad after a holiday, and more. Short Notice
Unfortunately, with the possible exception of maternity/paternity leave, most of these situations happen at very short notice. Furthermore, in a lot of cases you may have no idea how long that staff member is going to be away. Take jury service, for example: it could be a couple of days, but equally it could be a couple of months. Now if you have a pharmacist away from your practice for a couple of days, no doubt the rest of the team will be able to cover for him or her. However, if they are going to be away for any length of time, then you are going to need a locum pharmacist to take their place. Between the UK and Ireland, there are over 14,000 pharmacies, and they each need two or three pharmacists to cover the opening hours every week. This means that many of them will use a locum to cover gaps in their rosters such as holidays, sick leave, paternity leave, and so on. That can be an attractive opportunity for pharmacists who enjoy working as a locum for a number of reasons. Not the least of these is that a locum pharmacist can earn more than one in steady employment. In turn, of course, that means that a pharmacy has to pay more to cover the same number of hours. Nonetheless, it is necessary for them to do so in order to provide the services to their customers. In turn, this is why, as a pharmacy owner or partner, you should take out locum insurance which will cover you for the extra expenses of paying for a locum whenever you need one. So instead of the extra costs coming off your bottom line at the year end, the insurance company will pay them for you.
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