Consultancy: review of business planning arrangements

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is the regulator of registered pharmacies, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in Great Britain. We are undertaking a review of the following processes and are seeking an experienced business planning professional or consultancy firm to advise on integrating and developing:

• Planning
• Budgeting
• Risk management
• Reporting

The review will address and make recommendations on:

1. An analysis of the of strengths and weaknesses of the processes
2. Identifying how to provide better oversight of interdependencies and the links to risk management
3. Identifying improvements to the integration and simplification of the four processes, reflecting the size and scale of the organisation
4. Reviewing what good performance would look like and how it could be reported
5. Ensuring consistency and efficiency of reporting (not reproducing the same information repeatedly)
6. The management time required inputting and then assuring the processes
7. How to make the processes routine and embed them into everyday work
8. Integrating efficiency and effectiveness within the processes and identifying the metrics to evidence delivery
9. Quality improvements that could be made at each stage of each process