Deliveries at 3am: one way for pharmacies to maintain supplies during the Olympic Games

摘要

HALF of the 1,500 community pharmacies expected to be directly affected by the London 2012 Olympics will have normal twice-a-day deliveries from wholesalers during the games - provided nothing unexpected happens.The pledge from the British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (BAPW) may seem ambitious but it reflects the confident mood across community pharmacy in the capital that drug deliveries will get through. Wholesalers have, since early this year, been visiting each of the 1,500 sites to work out an Olympics strategy. Each pharmacy has been colour coded: red for those whose deliveries are under threat, amber for those whose schedule is being cut to a single daily delivery, and green for those whose deliveries will stay the same during the games. At the beginning of July, around 750 pharmacies were on green alert, 700 pharmacies were in the amber category, leaving 42 on red alert.