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Pharmosphere is a web app built for UK locum pharmacists, bringing together a verified community, shift logging, invoicing with payment-status tracking, a tax estimator, and pharmacy insights. It is designed to be your weekly home for the administrative side of locum work.Read more

Yes. Pharmosphere is free for individual pharmacists — there are no card details to enter and no trial period. We never handle the money from your shifts and we never sell your data.Read more

You can log shifts and create invoices straight away, even while your verification is still pending. Posting in the community is enabled once a team member has confirmed the GPhC registration number you supplied; this is a community check, not an endorsement by the GPhC.Read more

No. Pharmosphere only tracks the status of your invoices and payments; it never holds, sends, or processes money, and it never contacts the pharmacy on your behalf. The pharmacy pays you directly, and you send the invoice and any chase-up reminder yourself using the text the app prepares.Read more

Coverage spans the four UK nations — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — wherever the underlying data allows. Pharmacy insights and benchmarks depend on the data available for each nation.Read more

No. The tax and salary figures are estimates and general guidance only, not financial or tax advice, so always check your own situation against GOV.UK or with an accountant. They give you a sense of roughly how much to set aside as your income builds up over the year.Read more

Go to your dashboard and use the Get started prompt to log your first shift, then turn logged shifts into an invoice and watch your tax position build up over the year. The Quick actions on the dashboard link straight to logging a shift, creating an invoice, building your profile, and exploring pharmacy insights.Read more

Yes. Pharmosphere is a web app you can add to your home screen so it opens full-screen with its own icon, with nothing to download. On an iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap the Share icon, then tap Add to Home Screen. On Android, open it in Chrome and tap the Install prompt, or choose Install app from the menu. It is the same secure app and you stay signed in. A dedicated App Store listing may follow later.Read more

No. Pharmosphere only tracks the status of your invoices and payments; it never holds, sends, or processes money, and it never takes a cut. The pharmacy pays you directly into the bank details on your invoice.Read more

No — you stay in control of all contact. The app prepares the invoice and a ready-to-send chase-up reminder, but you send them to the pharmacy yourself from your own email; we never contact the pharmacy on your behalf.Read more

Each invoice gets the next number in your own sequence, claimed automatically when you create it. Numbers are sequential and gap-free per account, so your records stay tidy for your tax pack.Read more

A new invoice starts as Draft until you select Mark as sent (once you've emailed it). It then sits as Sent, shows as Overdue if the due date passes, and becomes Paid when you select Mark as paid; you can also select Mark as chased after a reminder, or Mark as unpaid to undo a paid mark.Read more

Yes. When creating an invoice you can include mileage from your logged shifts (with an editable per-mile rate) and add ad-hoc expense lines with a description and amount, alongside your worked-shift lines.Read more

You can edit an invoice's notes at any time, and you can delete an invoice while it's still a Draft, which returns its shifts to logged so you can add them to a new invoice. Once an invoice has been marked as sent it can't be deleted, since the pharmacy has seen that number.Read more

No. You can log shifts straight away, even before you've added any payment details. If they're missing, Pharmosphere shows a soft prompt — "You can log shifts now. Add your payment details before you create an invoice." — which links to Settings but never blocks you. You only need those details in place before you create an invoice, so the pharmacy knows how to pay you.Read more

Yes. On the shift form, switch from the One shift tab to the Multiple days tab. Set your usual rate and hours, then tap each day you worked on the calendar — every day becomes an editable shift you can fine-tune, and you can add a break, mileage or notes for the run. Select the Log shifts button (it shows the count, for example Log 4 shifts) to record them all at once; any day that clashes with a shift you've already logged is skipped.Read more

Yes. An invoice still covers one pharmacy at a time, but when you create it you can use the All shifts / By week / By month toggle to gather shifts by period. Choosing By week or By month reveals a Choose a week or Choose a month dropdown showing each period's shift count and total; pick one and it ticks just those shifts and pre-fills a matching note.Read more

Yes, as long as the shift hasn't been invoiced yet. Open it from the shifts hub and select Edit to change the date, hourly rate, times, unpaid break, mileage or notes. You can also change the pharmacy: pick another saved one, or choose "+ Add a new pharmacy…" to search the NHS directory or enter one manually. Totals and your tax estimate update as you type — select Save changes when you're done.Read more

Open Chase payment again on the sent or overdue invoice — it stays available after the first reminder. Copy or send a fresh reminder from your own email, then select the button, which reads Mark as chased the first time and Mark chased again after that. Each chase re-records the date, shown as "Reminder sent" on the hub and "Chased on" in your invoices list, so you can follow up as many times as it takes.Read more

Days that are UK bank holidays are flagged with an amber dot on the shift calendars, and hovering or focusing one shows the holiday name, such as Christmas Day. On the single-shift form you'll also see a note like "Bank holiday (Christmas Day) — locums often negotiate an enhanced rate." The markers follow your nation setting (England & Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland) and are a prompt only — you can still log a shift at whatever rate you agreed.Read more

No. Every figure is an estimate and general guidance only, not financial, tax, or legal advice. For your own situation, check GOV.UK and HMRC or speak to a qualified accountant.Read more

No. Pharmosphere estimates your Self Assessment position from your logged shifts and expenses, but it never submits anything to HMRC. You file your own return, and the figures are there to help you and your accountant prepare it.Read more

You pick the tax year, and your shifts, invoiced mileage, and expenses are totalled for that 6 April to 5 April period. For the current in-progress year it can also show a run-rate projection that assumes the rest of the year keeps your year-to-date pace.Read more

Business mileage you bill on your invoices is valued using HMRC's approved mileage rates: 55p per mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, then 25p per mile after that. Whether the simplified-mileage method is right for you depends on your circumstances.Read more

The estimate suggests a set-aside percentage of your turnover based on your projected tax, and you can override it with your own rate in settings. Treat it as guidance only, not a guaranteed figure.Read more

Yes. You can export a tax pack with your income, expenses, mileage, and an SA103 box breakdown, which is straightforward to hand to an accountant. They remain estimates, so your accountant should confirm the final figures.Read more

It comes from official NHS and government open data: NHSBSA and NHS England for England, Public Health Scotland, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, and HSC Business Services Organisation / Open Data NI for Northern Ireland, with location data from postcodes.io and the Office for National Statistics. It is all public sector information published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.Read more

The figures are monthly and reflect the latest data each source has published, so there is usually a lag of a month or two behind real activity. On an England pharmacy page you can use the month selector to switch between the months we hold, and the latest month is shown by default.Read more

No. The benchmarks compare NHS dispensing activity, such as items dispensed and service volumes, ranking a pharmacy nationally, within its Integrated Care Board, and against the nearest pharmacies within 2.5 miles. They are not locum pay rates and say nothing about what a shift there would pay.Read more

It is an indicative estimate built from dispensing and service volumes using published per-item and per-service fees, covering NHS activity only, so it excludes private services and retail sales. It is not the business's actual income, not profit or take-home pay, and not financial advice.Read more

No. Your watchlist is private to your account, which is why you need to be signed in to watch a pharmacy, and there is no public list of who has viewed or watched a page. You can read more about how your activity is handled in the privacy article.Read more

No. Where we show actual NHS payments, such as the Scotland gross payment or Wales dispensing fees, these are gross figures that largely cover the reimbursed cost of the medicines dispensed. They are not profit or take-home pay, and are shown for information only.Read more

The badge reflects your GPhC verification status on your profile, shown next to your name in the profile hero. Once your registration is confirmed as verified, the badge appears automatically and unlocks trust features like posting in the community. Until then you can still build out the rest of your profile.Read more

Your documents are a private compliance vault for things like indemnity, GPhC certificate, DBS and training records, and only you can see them. Your profile details (name, headline, services, experience and recent community posts) are visible to the wider verified community. Choose what to share accordingly.Read more

Keep posts general, respectful and professional, as you would in person. Don't name, rate or criticise specific pharmacies, employers or individuals, and never share patient-identifiable or confidential information. The same GPhC standards that apply anywhere you practise apply here too.Read more

Yes. The first time you post you'll see the community guidelines and must tick to confirm you've read them and will post in line with GPhC social-media guidance, then choose Agree and continue. After that the guidelines stay available as a collapsible reference at the top of the community.Read more

Be respectful and professional, keep it general, and never share patient-identifiable or confidential information. There's no profanity, abuse, harassment, discrimination, spam, advertising or sharing of others' personal data. We also ask you to follow the GPhC's Demonstrating professionalism online guidance.Read more

Posts have a status, and only published posts show up publicly and on your profile's recent activity, so a post that breaks the guidelines may be held back or removed. Sticking to the general, professional and confidential-by-default rules is the best way to keep your contributions visible.Read more

Only you. Your shifts, invoices, income, tax and documents are private to your account, protected by row-level security so no other member can see them, and your uploaded documents sit in a private vault with restricted, audit-logged access. The only things visible to the wider verified community are the profile details and community posts you choose to publish. We never sell your data and use no third-party advertising trackers.Read more

We store the things you put into Pharmosphere, such as your profile, shifts, invoices, expenses, saved pharmacy contacts and community posts, so the app can show them back to you and prepare invoices and estimates. First-party analytics is off by default and never includes your financial details or any free text.Read more

No. We do not sell your data, and we use first-party analytics only, with no third-party advertising trackers. Any pay-benchmark figures shown across the app are anonymised and carry no link back to you, so they are not your personal data.Read more

Yes. Use Download my data in Settings to get a ZIP containing your profile, shifts, invoices, expenses, saved pharmacies, community activity, documents and consent history as machine-readable JSON, plus your uploaded files, receipts and profile photo. The export covers only rows you own and never includes other people's data.Read more

Yes. From Settings you can tick the confirmation box and choose Delete my account, which permanently removes your account and sign-in along with your shifts, invoices, posts, and uploaded documents and photo. This cannot be undone, so consider using Download my data first if you want to keep a copy.Read more

On the privacy settings you can tick or untick Allow first-party analytics and press Save preference; it is off by default. Use Manage cookie banner to clear your choice and bring the consent banner back so you can set it again.Read more

No. Pharmosphere only tracks the status of your invoices and payments and never holds, sends or processes money, and it never contacts the pharmacy for you. The pharmacy pays you directly, and you send the invoice and any chase-up reminder yourself.Read more