Contract Manager
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Pharmacies in England currently use PharmOutcomes to deliver local enhanced services commissioned by Local Authorities, Clinical commissioning Groups, NHS England and other bodies, including Prime and SubPrime Providers.
ContractManager has a number of measures to ensure that the complexity of the commissioning arrangements can be understood by branch, field managers and head office personnel
How We Help
ContractManager helps pharmacy group organisations as they:
- Manage the contractual arrangements both in place and under discussion.
- Manage the Business and Management Information available with appropriate accuracy.
- Manage their Finacial Information to ensure that activies are invoiced, paid and that tax liabilities are transparent.
The current commissioning and contracting environment is increasingly complex.
Commissioners are increasingly employing lead, prime providers to manage their providers. These prime providers, in turn, often sub-prime providers with expertise in the appropriate area.
ContractManager was developed by Pinnacle Systems Management to allow pharmacy groups greater access to and control over the contract chains and services they supply through their own organisation as well as any services they manage for other organisations.
ContractManager works completely integrated with PharmOutcomes, but also allows the management of non-PharmOutcomes services, even if they are claimed on paper.
Delivering up to date information on all services performed, the primary functionality of ContractManager is to map the structure of contract chains throughout the organisation, and to show the services available at any branch, so that they can be reported and invoiced on a regular basis.
ContractManager informs PharmOutcomes of all services that aren’t provided through PharmOutcomes. This allows branches to enter details of known and unknown services into the Month End reporting run.
ContractManager provides one resource for pharmacies to track all of their providers, to hold the information about who funds these services, as well as keeping track of which providers are accredited for which services.
ContractManager also provides performance reports on the delivery of local services at their pharmacies.
Pinnacle Health Partnership LLP was established in 2009 by two practising pharmacists frustrated by the paucity of information for that sector.
Since then the company has grown significantly and has developed a reputation as one of the most proactive companies in the commissioning sector.
We established a sister company, Pinnacle Systems Management Ltd, in 2014 to lead on software development. The two companies work as one on a day to day basis.
We constantly seek new and innovative ways of working. We partner extensively with Clinical Commissioning Groups, Local Authorities, Local Pharmaceutical Committees, NHS England, the NHS Academic Health Science Networks and private sector organisations and we continually develop and refine our products and services based on that work.
Our philosophy is of a practical approach combined with attention to detail where it matters. We can get real world services up and running within days, or even hours, and we pride ourselves on being fun and easy to do business with.