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Business Continuity Planning

A plan you can actually open at 2am when something is on fire.

A business continuity plan is only valuable if your team can execute it under pressure. We write pharmacy-specific BCPs in plain English, then rehearse them with your staff annually.

Scenarios covered: ransomware, dispensing server failure, NBN outage, fire, flood, key staff illness, supplier failure and cyber insurance claim workflow.

What's included

Built for Australian pharmacy operations.

Pharmacy-specific scenarios

BCP runbooks written for dispensing-down, POS-down, S8 register loss and ransomware events.

Plain-English playbooks

Step-by-step actions any pharmacist or store manager can follow without IT background.

Annual tabletop exercises

Live rehearsal with your team, finding the gaps before a real incident does.

Communication trees

Pre-agreed scripts for staff, patients, doctors, AHPRA and cyber insurer.

Manual dispensing fallback

Documented manual workflow so prescriptions keep moving during a full IT outage.

Insurance alignment

BCP structured to match your cyber and business interruption policy requirements.

Deliverables

What you receive.

  • Business Impact Analysis document
  • BCP and IT Disaster Recovery Plan in printable format
  • Communication templates and contact tree
  • Annual tabletop exercise report
Outcomes

Results pharmacy owners see.

  • Confident staff response to incidents
  • Faster, cleaner cyber insurance claims
  • Reduced revenue loss per outage hour
  • Audit and accreditation evidence ready
Questions answered

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to build a BCP?

A standard community pharmacy BCP takes 3-4 weeks: interviews, drafting, review and tabletop. Multi-site groups take 6-8 weeks.

Do you handle the tabletop exercise?

Yes. We facilitate, inject scenarios, capture gaps and produce the post-exercise report you can show to auditors and insurers.

Related services

Often paired with this service.

Free Pharmacy Security Assessment

Ready to take business continuity planning off your plate?

Book a free 30-minute pharmacy IT assessment with a WAPIT specialist.