Community Pharmacy is the place where most pharmacists practice the profession of pharmacy.

1. Community pharmacy
management
Mr. Ravinandan A P
Asst. Prof. & Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Sree Siddaganga College of Pharmacy
Collaboration with
Siddaganga Hospital & Research Centre, Tumkur, Karnataka

2. Presentation outlines
1. Introduction
2. Definition
3. Financial
4. Materials
5. Staff
6. Infrastructure requirements.

3. Community Pharmacy
• Community Pharmacy is the place where most
pharmacists practice the profession of pharmacy.
• The main responsibilities of a community pharmacy
include compounding, counseling, and dispensing of
drugs to the patients.
• It consists of a retail store front with a dispensary
where medicines are stored and dispensed.
• The community pharmacist must be a qualified and
appropriate with sound education, skills and
competence to deliver the professional service to the
community.

4. Functions of Community Pharmacy:
1. Providing health information to patient
and public
2. Prescription handling
3. Patient counselling
4. Patient medication record
5. Pharmacy administration
6. Compounding

5. Definition
• Infrastructure is defined
as the facilities available
to provide pharmaceutical
care services within the
hospital pharmacy or
community pharmacy.

6. Facilities
• Personnel
• Place
• Equipment's
–Professional
–Administrative

7. Staff Management
• The right type of organization is selected, then
it becomes necessary to fill in the various job
positions with right kind of people, who can
effectively performed their assigned activities.
• This is the management function of staffing.

8. Importance of staffing
• Staffing helps to build up a healthy organization in
which the job performance and satisfaction of every
employee can be high.
• Staffing injects life into the organization by
providing right person for every job. The
effectiveness of directing and control functions also
depends upon staffing.
• Employees in the organization are the most valuable
asset of an organization. The quality of human
assets largely determines the success and growth of
the organization.

9. Personnel
• Professional staff
–Pharmacists

10. and
Pharmacy
technicians

11. • Non
professional
staff
–Cleaning,
Clerical

12. Place
• Minimum floor space
required
• Wholesale drug store : 200
sq ft
• Retail drug store : 150 sq ft
• Pharmacy should be well
illuminated and there should
be a control for maintaining
the temperature and humidity

13. Equipments - Professional
• Balance,
• Cabinets
• Water distillation stills
• Mixing tanks
• Stirrers
• Metallic filters
• Homogenisers
• Capsulating machines
• Tablet manufacturing
equipment
• Sterilizing equipment

14. • Prescription cases and cabinets
• Pressure pumps
• Vacuum pumps
• Refrigerators, weighing
machines
• Type writers, computers,
printers
• Tables and chairs
• Dispensing table
• Conductivity meters, pH
meters, Polari meter

15. Administrative equipment
• Book cases
• Notice Boards
• Calculators, computers
• Cash registers
• Clocks, Desks
• Filing cabinets
• Lockers
• Work tables.

16. Fittings
• Adequate tap connections with plumber
facility
• All suitable electrical and Gas connections.
Maintenance and repairs
• All equipment utilized in the hospital
pharmacy department should be properly
maintained with maintenance contracts, as
and when repairs comes, should be repaired

17. Finance in a Community Pharmacy
• Financing is required to set up a new
community pharmacy in order to maintain the
medicines stock and cover the expenses.
• Purpose of Finance:
To purchase land, building, machinery and
equipment.
To purchase raw materials and other materials.
To pay salaries, wages and incidental charges.
To maintain stock and supply products.

18. Financial records
• For making sound decision regarding future
needs , inventory requirements, etc.
• For evaluation of past operations, planning
of present activities , forecasting needs,
and controlling the activities.
• Analyzing revenues and expenses.
• Measuring return on investment.
• Help ensure profitable operations.