Grow private revenue in your NHS pharmacy

An NHS community pharmacy can increase private revenue by offering paid private services, selling P and POM medicines online and using its pharmacist independent prescribers for paid consultations. Each of these needs a system to take bookings, record consultations and track income, which NHS PMR systems are not built to do. Dataforge PMR provides that system and runs alongside the pharmacy's existing NHS PMR.

The most profitable private services depend on the margin per patient and local demand. Services with low consumable costs, such as ear wax removal and blood pressure checks, keep most of the fee as profit. Medicine-based services, such as weight management and hair loss, earn less per patient but bring the same patients back every month. The Dataforge PMR profit calculator for NHS pharmacies compares services using your own prices and costs.

Yes. A GPhC-registered pharmacy can supply P and POM medicines online if it follows the GPhC guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance, including on the internet. Prescription-only medicines need a prescription from a UK prescriber. In Dataforge PMR, the patient completes a clinical questionnaire and identity checks, and a prescriber approves, holds or rejects the order before anything is supplied.

Yes. When patients book a private service through Dataforge PMR, they choose whether to pay online at the time of booking or in branch at their appointment.

A PMR, or patient medication record, system is the software a pharmacy uses to record patients, prescriptions and dispensing. NHS PMR systems are built around NHS electronic prescriptions and NHS claims. Dataforge PMR is a PMR built for private work, covering private bookings, online consultations, private prescribing, dispensing and registers.

No. Dataforge PMR runs alongside your NHS PMR and does not replace it. NHS electronic prescriptions, NHS dispensing and NHS claims stay on your current system, so there is no data to migrate and no change to how your team handles NHS work.

Yes. Dataforge PMR runs independently of your NHS PMR, so it works alongside whichever system you use, including Titan, ProScript Connect and Pharmacy Manager. Your team uses the NHS PMR for NHS work and Dataforge PMR for private work.

Not at present. Dataforge PMR is built for private work, where the margin is. Connection to NHS systems is on the Dataforge PMR roadmap.

Yes. NHS services such as flu vaccination can be listed in the Dataforge PMR calendar alongside private services and shown as NHS funded, so the whole team works from one diary.

Yes. Pharmacist independent prescribers can review consultations in Dataforge PMR, approve, hold or reject them, and generate private prescriptions and drug labels. Visiting doctors can prescribe in the same system.

Yes. Identity and age verification is built into Dataforge PMR. The results are shown to the prescriber next to the patient's questionnaire answers before any decision is made.

Yes. Video consultations are built into the Dataforge PMR Bookings module, so patients who cannot come into the pharmacy can still book and attend a private consultation.

Yes. Dataforge PMR manages every branch from one dashboard, with services, staff and availability set separately for each location.

Dataforge PMR plugs into the website you already have, with native support for Shopify, WordPress and WooCommerce and custom integration for other websites. If your pharmacy does not have a website, Sync Dynamics can build one for you.

Dataforge PMR meets DCB0129, the NHS England clinical risk management standard for manufacturers of health IT systems, and supports the standards set by the GPhC and the CQC. Patient data is handled in line with UK GDPR, and every subscription includes a Data Processing Agreement setting out how data is processed and protected.

Dataforge PMR is made by Sync Dynamics Ltd, a UK healthtech company based in Blackburn, Lancashire (company number 15767790). The platform is built by pharmacists and doctors who run regulated healthcare services themselves.

Dataforge PMR is priced by module, with each module charged monthly, so a pharmacy pays only for the services it runs. Sync Dynamics provides a quote for your pharmacy during the demo.

Yes. The Sync Dynamics team sets up your services, clinical forms, locations and staff permissions, connects Dataforge PMR to your website and trains your staff.