How to Develop a Business Plan for Pharmacy Services

This book is designed to assist pharmacy clinicians, managers, and leaders in exploring, researching proposing and implementing new services and enhancing existence services by providing a systematic approach to the business planning process. The materials presented are applicable to pharmacy services in hospitals, community practice, managed care organizations ambulatory clinics, and elsewhere. The book is also useful as a teaching tool in the classroom environment, business planning is an important skill for pharmacy students. New to this second editions are: A set of exercise to guide the reader in writing his or her own business plan, Access to additional resources on a Web site. The online resources include: An electronic version of the workbook questions, An electronic version of the business plan temple to be used for writing a business plan, A Microsoft Excel program that allows the user to develop financial statement for proposed businesses, Two business practice models. The Web site will be updated periodically with new resources, including additional sample business plans.