Services · Mobile app development · Pharmacy apps
We take on pharmacy app development Manchester pharmacies use to run repeat requests, care home orders, medicine delivery and NHS consultations from one system. Greater Manchester spreads across ten boroughs, from Bolton and Wigan to Stockport and Tameside, and a single group can cover very different communities. Codeeo builds patient apps, staff tools and dashboards that fit how your pharmacists already work, linked to NHS EPS through the systems you use today.
Clinical decisions stay where they belong. Pharmacists check every supply, prescribers decide on every prescription, and the app simply makes requests, updates and deliveries easier to manage for everyone involved.
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Inside a Manchester pharmacy app
Pharmacies along the Oxford Road corridor see students, hospital staff and patients leaving Manchester Royal Infirmary with new medicines. Branches in Cheetham Hill or Longsight serve communities where several languages are spoken at home. Pharmacies in the outer boroughs supply care homes and housebound patients who depend on reliable delivery. Each group needs something slightly different from an app.
We build the parts that fit your branches and leave out the rest. NHS prescriptions still arrive through the Electronic Prescription Service into your patient medication record system, and the app adds the patient facing and staff facing tools around that dispensing work. That keeps the dispensary process you have already refined intact.
Care homes across Greater Manchester order medicines for many residents at once. A dedicated portal lets home staff submit monthly requests by resident, flag changes after a GP review and see what is being prepared, so the pharmacy is not chasing faxes and emails at the end of the cycle. Homes can also report a resident's admission to hospital so deliveries pause.
Monthly care home cycles run on time with fewer surprises.
Patients and carers see when the next multi compartment pack is due and when it will be delivered or ready to collect. Changes reported through the app go to the pharmacist for review before anything in the pack is altered.
Carers know what is coming and when.
Patients choose the regular items they need and the request follows the route agreed with their GP practice. The app explains EPS nomination simply and prompts patients to nominate your branch, because the prescription lands with whichever pharmacy is nominated.
More of your regular patients' prescriptions arrive at your branch.
A driver app plans drops across neighbouring boroughs, records proof of delivery and keeps fridge lines and controlled drugs on the right runs. Patients see when the driver is close, and missed drops are logged with a reason for follow up. Drivers can mark access notes for tower blocks and gated developments so the next run goes faster.
Delivery that a growing group can manage without extra admin.
Patients can request a Pharmacy First consultation for one of the covered conditions, or book NHS services your branch provides such as blood pressure checks or contraception consultations. The pharmacist reviews each request and decides what happens next.
NHS services booked ahead rather than queued at the counter.
Manchester's universities bring a large intake of students every year, many from overseas. A short guide inside the app explains how to register with a GP, how NHS prescriptions work in England and how to nominate your pharmacy. International students can also read it in their own language.
New arrivals understand the system and stay with you.
Patients can choose the language for menus and notifications, with clinical text reviewed by your pharmacists. Secure messaging lets them ask a question about a delivery or an order without phoning during the busiest part of the day.
Clearer communication with every community you serve.
General sale products can be bought straight away. Pharmacy medicines pause for a pharmacist check of a short questionnaire before packing, and quantity limits can be set for products where repeat purchasing needs a conversation.
Online sales that respect the same checks as your counter.
Manchester Airport sends many residents abroad every year, and travel clinics are a steady private service for pharmacies across the region. Patients can check which vaccinations or antimalarial advice a trip may need, book a slot and complete forms at home. Prescription only items are assessed and prescribed by a registered prescriber before any supply.
Travel appointments booked weeks ahead instead of the day before a flight.
Owners and area managers see requests, deliveries, consultations and care home cycles by branch and by borough. Exports feed the reports you already prepare for commissioners and head office.
Clear numbers for every site in one place.
Who we work with in Manchester
Pharmacy businesses across Greater Manchester vary enormously, from single shops on a parade in Rusholme to groups with a dozen branches and a central hub. The best first release depends on where the pressure is today: the phone, the delivery van, the care home cycle or the online channel. These are the starting points we see most often, and the order we usually tackle them in. Several Manchester groups combine two of these within the first year, so we plan for that growth early.
If a large share of your work goes to care homes and patients who cannot travel, the care home portal and driver app come first. They remove the paper and phone traffic that builds up around monthly cycles and give drivers a clear plan for each day. Patient facing features can follow once the operational side is steady and your staff trust the system. Care home managers also get a single view of what is outstanding, which makes their own medicines audits easier to prepare.
Operational tools often save more time than patient features.
Students, hospital workers and office staff want speed. We focus on click and collect, Pharmacy First requests, quick private service booking and clear guidance for people new to the NHS. The design suits people who are moving between lectures, shifts and trams, and who will abandon anything that takes too long to load. Branches near the Metrolink stops can show which tram stop is closest, a small touch that helps people who do not know the city yet.
Patients may prefer Urdu, Arabic, Polish or another language, and family members often manage medicines for older relatives. We build language choice, carer access with consent and simple repeat ordering. Your pharmacy keeps its own name and personality in the app rather than appearing as one listing among many. Simple voice notes and large buttons help older patients who find typing difficult, and staff can reply in the same thread.
Online pharmacy app development Manchester businesses commission usually covers national dispatch, identity checks and online consultations with a registered prescriber. We build two way communication between patient and prescriber, independent verification for higher risk medicines, and clear refusal routes, because current GPhC guidance expects all of these. We also separate marketing from prescription only products, since those medicines cannot be promoted to the public in the UK.
Your superintendent pharmacist approves every clinical step.
How we engage
Codeeo's team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We have no Manchester office and work remotely with clients there, running discovery, reviews and training by video call. Many pharmacies start with a fixed scope first release and then keep a monthly retainer for new features. Groups planning a longer programme can take a dedicated team instead. Every option includes a named project lead and shared access to test builds. Contracts confirm ownership, scope and change control in writing before work starts.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Patient and driver apps in Flutter or React Native, a browser based dashboard, UK hosted cloud services and integrations chosen around the pharmacy systems, payment providers and messaging tools you already use in your Manchester branches. We favour well supported tools that another Manchester or UK agency could maintain later.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
With the care home ordering portal and the delivery tools.
For pharmacies with significant care home work, the monthly cycle is where time disappears. A portal that collects orders by resident, records changes and shows progress removes most of the chasing. A driver app with proof of delivery follows naturally. Patient features such as repeat requests and notifications can sit in the same first release or the next one, depending on your budget and staff capacity. We usually suggest piloting with one Manchester branch and one friendly care home before scaling.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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