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- Buying a pharmacy business (5)
- Current affairs (13)
- Employing staff in your pharmacy (20)
- Finance for your pharmacy business (3)
- Growing your pharmacy business (20)
- Locum Focus (8)
- Looking after your own affairs (4)
- Managing your pharmacy business (56)
- Marketing your pharmacy business (10)
- Premises and your pharmacy (3)
- Selling your pharmacy business (2)
- Starting a pharmacy business (11)
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- A general guide to the law relating to websites and e-mails
- A quick guide to key man cover
- All change please: Employment law update
- An employee has asked for a statement of terms of employment. What does this mean?
- An employee has raised a grievance; what should I do?
- An employee has threatened to take the company to an Employment Tribunal. What do I need to know?
- Are lunchtimes included the hours that I am open?
- Are there risks in using social networking in business?
- Budget 2011: The key provisions
- Budget blues?
- Business confidence rebounds but job creation remains weak
- Calls for interest rates to remain at 0.5 per until the third quarter of 2011
- Can I dismiss an employee for a sickness-related reason?
- Can I notify more than 40 hours as "core hours"?
- Can my PCT force me to open for more than my core contractual hours?
- Can my PCT refuse to allow me to change core contractual hours?
- Can the pharmacy issue a new employment contract or change terms?
- Case study : Flexible working
- Category M reductions may cost pharmacies £10,000 in income per year
- Contracted hours
- Corporation tax records must be filed online
- Creating a culture of customer service excellence
- Default retirement age latest
- Direction of prescriptions
- Does my pharmacy need to be registered under the Data Protection Act?
- Don't let staff turnover threaten your business growth
- EU maternity proposals will cost businesses £7,000
- Employee share schemes: an introduction
- Essential year-end tax planning tips
- European Parliament recommends action against UK Government over responsible pharmacist rule
- General advice on employer / employee issues
- General introduction to finance for non-financial managers
- Guidance on the National Minimum Wage and work experience
- HMRC attacks high net worth individuals with Swiss accounts
- Hay fever symptoms peak at lunch time
- How can I get around lease obligations on business premises?
- How can I manage my business's cashflow more effectively?
- How critical is health and safety compliance for my pharmacy?
- How do I encourage creditors to pay on time?
- How do I hold a board meeting?
- How do I improve profitability?
- How do I make some of my staff redundant?
- I have been told that I can use the two hour absence facility to provide me with a rest break. Is this right?
- I have heard that working parents and carers may have special rights in employment law - is this correct?
- I have recently qualified and want to take up a new job. Can my current employer ask me to repay training fees?
- I need to dismiss an employee.
- I need to know about discrimination issues.
- I need to sue somebody; how do I start?
- I understand that asset finance may be a good way for me to release cashflow; is this right?
- IR35 is to remain for contractors and service companies
- Insurance: Are you covered?
- Is an employee allowed representation in legal discplinary proceedings?
- Is now the right time to sell your pharmacy business?
- Is underfloor heating really the route to customer happiness?
- Key changes to PAYE
- Lansley stumbles over reforms
- Law firm appoints Dominic Tomkins to be Compromise Agreements champion
- Laws of Unintended Consequences: What happens if a pharmacist dies without a will?
- Locum Focus: 10 Tips For Reinventing Your Personal Brand In The Workplace
- Locum Focus: Agency Workers Regulations? ‘Never heard of them’ say 51% of contractors
- Locum Focus: HMRC lose another IR35 case
- MUR payments will depend on patient outcomes
- Men's Health: A focus for community pharmacy?
- Mileage rates increased
- My bookkeeper is 66 and I want to dismiss her as she is too old.
- My business is being sued; what should I do?
- My company is proposing to take a lease of new premises; what should I look out for?
- My dispensing pharmacist/manager does not have a contract and there is nothing written down anywhere and he is threatening to move to my competitor
- National Minimum Wage to rise in October
- New drive-thru pharmacy format to be rolled-out out across UK
- New regime for reporting Health and Safety incidents
- One of my company's employees has asked to work from home. What should I do?
- Opening hours: an overview
- Overseas pharmacists should check UK-working status
- Peter Edwards: The 1000% tax trap - how to avoid it
- Pharmacies well-placed to relieve pressure on A & E
- Pharmacy Expert now live on Facebook
- Please can you explain about the Minimum Wage?
- Please can you explain how the company car tax system works?
- Santander Corporate Banking deal secures pharmacy's future
- Small businesses missing out through online marketing overload
- Small businesses need safeguards against rising energy costs
- Smallest businesses fare worst on loan applications
- The lease held by my business contains a rent review clause and the date of the rent review is approaching; what do I need to do?
- Top legal tips for retail fit-outs and re-fits
- Trade marks and your pharmacy business
- Umesh Modi: Income tax - the basics
- Umesh Modi: PAYE - The Basics
- What accounting software would you recommend?
- What are flexible working arrangements?
- What can I do if I think that an employee is misusing the IT system?
- What do I need to consider when buying premises for my pharmacy?
- What do I need to consider when starting a new business?
- What do I need to know about comparative advertising?
- What do I need to know about insolvency?
- What do I need to know about setting up an online retail business?
- What do I need to know when buying a business?
- What happens if I don't want to open for 40 hours a week?
- What happens if an employee is unwell while on holiday?
- What is a stakeholder pension?
- What is a stakeholder pension?
- What is intellectual property and who owns it?
- What responsibilities would I have as the Director of a Company?
- When does a week start and end for the purposes of calculating the hours that a pharmacy is open?
- When should I give employees time off for their dependants?
- Will pharmacy escape unscathed?
- Workplace policies
- Would the abolition of prescription charges reduce your bank charges?
- £1M funding for Health and Wellbeing Boards