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DIMEC - Andrew Bailey
Pharmacy MPharm (2011) 
Summary:
Status: MPharm graduate 2011
Business Type: Online pharmaceutical company
Dimec is in the process of becoming an online pharmacy with the potential of revolutionising prescription receipt and delivery. Dimec Ltd will be a dispensing online pharmacy before the end of 2012.
About me:
I graduated from Keele with a Masters in pharmacy in July 2011 and I am currently a pre-registration pharmacist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. During my time at Keele I spent every summer working in pharmacies, and from my earliest experiences I could see things to change to help patients get advice and services from qualified professionals.
I have always loved computers, and during my school years and into the early years of university I spent time building computer systems and networks for all sort of people and I got to see how they used their technology. An online pharmacy seemed a logical step.
About the business:
Dimec.co.uk is in the preliminary stages of becoming an online pharmacy. Come late 2012, when my pre-registration year is complete Dimec will be moving to become a fully-fledged pharmacy, dispensing NHS and private prescriptions plus everything you would expect and a little more, like online hearing tests.
With the role of pharmacy in the NHS becoming far more clinical, it makes sense to use modern advancements in communications, allowing patients faster and more convenient access to the expertise of professional, UK registered pharmacists. Hence, Dimec has online chat facilities and is even contactable via Skype.
Finally, by offering services online, this enables us to dramatically decrease our overheads and thus cuts costs to customers and patients.
How Student Enterprise has helped me:
I owe a great deal to the EFS programme. It has offered every support; attending the timetabled sessions has been the highlight of the academic year not to mention an awesome education. I value my time on the programme enormously and encourage anyone to take part.
I’d say I’m quite ambitious; but if you can’t dream “big” how you can ever expect to realise “big”. The EFS programme and especially the staff, really bring your goals within reach.
Future plans:
Firstly, I would like to see Dimec set a bench mark in the use of modern commercial technologies in the delivery of healthcare. But in the long run, there is potential for accessing the continuing professional education market, medical education and maybe even generic manufacturing. Big ambitions!
