Pharmaceutical Awards

Open to Pharmaceutical Retail Outlets in Nigeria.

Parameters

• Leadership:
  Examines how leaders’ personal actions guide and sustain the organization. It also examines the organization’s governance system and how the organization fulfills its legal, ethical, and societal responsibilities and supports its key communities.
• Customer Focus:
  This category examines how the organization engages its patients and stakeholders for long-term marketplace success. This includes how the organization listens to the voice of its customers (their patients and stakeholder builds customer relationships, and uses customer information to improve and identify opportunities for innovation.
• Strategic Planning
  Examines how the organization develops strategic objectives and action plans .It also examines how their chosen strategic objectives and action plans are implemented and changed if circumstances require, and how progress is measured.
• Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management
  Examines how the organization selects, gathers, analyzes, manages, and improves its data, information, and knowledge assets and how it manages its information technology. The category also examines how the organization uses review findings to improve its performance.
• Workforce Focus
  Examines the ability to assess workforce capability and capacity needs and build a workforce environment conducive to high performance. The category also examines how the organization engages, manages, and develops their workforce to utilize its full potential in alignment with its overall mission, strategy, and action plans.
• Operations Focus
  Examines how the organization designs, manages, and improves its work systems and work processes to deliver patient and stakeholder value and achieve organizational success and sustainability. Also examined is its emergency preparedness.

Open to Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria.

Parameters

• Leadership:
  Examines how leaders’ personal actions guide and sustain the organization. It also examines the organization’s governance system and how the organization fulfills its legal, ethical, and societal responsibilities and supports its key communities.
• Customer Focus:
  This category examines how the organization engages its patients and stakeholders for long-term marketplace success. This includes how the organization listens to the voice of its customers (their patients and stakeholder builds customer relationships, and uses customer information to improve and identify opportunities for innovation.
• Strategic Planning
  Examines how the organization develops strategic objectives and action plans .It also examines how their chosen strategic objectives and action plans are implemented and changed if circumstances require, and how progress is measured.
• Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management
  Examines how the organization selects, gathers, analyzes, manages, and improves its data, information, and knowledge assets and how it manages its information technology. The category also examines how the organization uses review findings to improve its performance.
• Workforce Focus
  Examines the ability to assess workforce capability and capacity needs and build a workforce environment conducive to high performance. The category also examines how the organization engages, manages, and develops their workforce to utilize its full potential in alignment with its overall mission, strategy, and action plans.
• Operations Focus
  Examines how the organization designs, manages, and improves its work systems and work processes to deliver patient and stakeholder value and achieve organizational success and sustainability. Also examined is its emergency preparedness.

International certification and auditing. Good Manufacturing Practices certification.

The Award
Open to pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical product distributors in Nigeria.

CRITERIA

• INNOVATIVENESS/TECHNOLOGY:
  Demonstrates how the entity has been able to deploy the use of technology in increasing access to pharmaceutical products nationally. Must demonstrate how the use of technology has improved warehouse and transport systems, provide data-capture and tracking of goods, improve labor management, monitor resource and reduce stock losses with real-time stock checking, reduce waiting time in the delivery of essential drugs.
• LEGALITY:
  Must be a registered company with the CAC of Nigeria whose business processes are transparent.
• CAPACITY:
  This takes into consideration the scope and strength of their distribution channels nationally.
• ETHICAL ISSUES:
  Must not have been indicted by regulatory bodies regarding drug abuse or unethical medications.