How it works

The engine behind every price on your dashboard.

RxMargin runs a live pricing and matching system across the whole dispensing market, then turns it into one dashboard and one order optimiser. Nothing here is a snapshot. It is refreshed continuously, all day, every day.

It was built by two practising NHS GPs, one of them a partner at a dispensing practice, and it was written for that practice's own dispensary before anyone else used it. The figures here are the ones we work from ourselves.

RxMargin is a free live market and margin dashboard for NHS dispensing practices in England and Wales. It tracks pricing across five major UK wholesalers (PSUK, AAH, Alliance, Clarity and B&S), matches every pack against its current Drug Tariff reimbursement including live price-concession detection, folds in manufacturer rebate and discount-scheme modelling to work out true net cost, and surfaces brand-route earnings plays alongside an order optimiser that splits an order pad across suppliers for the lowest safe cost. It installs as an app on desktop and phone, with no download and no app store.

Live market data

Five wholesalers, tracked continuously.

RxMargin holds a live, continuously updated price feed from five major UK wholesalers. Every pack, every price band, every day.

PSUK AAH Alliance Healthcare Clarity Pharma B&S
5
major UK wholesalers priced side by side
10,000s
priced pack lines held and matched
Multiple times daily
refresh cadence through the working day
Continuous
Drug Tariff and monthly concession tracking
The matching engine

Every pack matched to what it actually earns.

A price on its own tells you nothing. RxMargin resolves each pack against the current reimbursement rules, live, so the number on your dashboard is what the line is actually worth this week.

Drug Tariff matching

Every pack is matched to its current Drug Tariff reimbursement, category by category, so wholesaler cost sits next to what the line actually reimburses.

Live concession detection

Monthly price concessions are tracked as they are published and revised, so a line that has moved onto a concession price shows the current figure, not last month's.

Rebate and scheme modelling

Manufacturer rebate and discount schemes are folded into a true net price, so the figure you see is what a pack actually costs after every scheme, not the headline list price.

Brand-route earnings plays

Where dispensing the branded route earns more than the generic route, RxMargin surfaces it as a practice-earnings opportunity, line by line.

The order optimiser

Upload your order pad, get back the cheapest safe split.

Upload your order pad in whatever format it already comes in. RxMargin matches every line against live prices across all five wholesalers, then returns the cheapest safe split with a ready-to-use order sheet for each supplier.

1

Upload

Send your order pad in any format. There is nothing to reformat first.

2

Matched, safely

Every line is matched against the market under a drug-safety rule that is never relaxed. It never crosses strengths or forms, and matches the same pack only.

3

Split for lowest safe cost

Each line is routed to whichever of the five wholesalers prices it lowest that day, across the whole order.

4

Per-supplier order sheets

You get back a ready-to-place order sheet for each wholesaler, split exactly as the optimiser worked it out.

The safety rule

The optimiser only ever substitutes the identical pack across suppliers. It never swaps strength, form or pack size to find a cheaper price. Anything it cannot match safely is left for you to place as usual.

Desktop and phone

Installs like an app. No download, no app store.

RxMargin app icon Installable web app

RxMargin is a Progressive Web App. It installs straight from your browser, on your desktop or your phone, and behaves like a native app once it's on your home screen or taskbar.

  • One tap to install, from the browser's own install prompt. Nothing to download from an app store.
  • Same app, every device. Desktop and phone both run the live dashboard and the order optimiser.
  • Kept current automatically. Every update reaches an installed app the next time it opens.

Free, live, and running right now.

Open the dashboard and see today's prices across all five wholesalers, or get in touch, whether you are a dispensing practice or a supplier.

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