Business and management

How pharmacists can boost sales of over-the-counter medicines

Joanna Mills, consumer and influencer insight manager at specialist over-the-counter pharmaceutical company Perrigo, uses examples from Warman-Freed pharmacy in London to explain how pharmacists can increase their sales of non-prescription products.…

Potential pharmacy closure might benefit another pharmacist

Graham Phillips’s excellent and passionate letter about the future of his Southdown, Harpenden, Hertfordshire pharmacy ( The Pharmaceutical Journal 2016;297:294) illustrates the quandary proprietor pharmacists have. Before I retired, I had a small chain of pharmacies that wer…

How the apprenticeship levy will affect your business

The apprenticeship levy is changing and will affect all employers. Vanessa Kingsbury and Tony Allen explain how your business can benefit.…

Celesio income fell 36% in first six months of financial year

UK government cuts to prescription reimbursement and the falling value of the pound have contributed to a fall in profit for the Celesio Group for the first six months of this financial year, the company says. Celesio – the parent company of LloydsPharmacy – revealed on 22 November…

Group of NHS acute trusts adopts e-procurement system

Ten leading acute trusts in England have adopted an electronic procurement system, which it is claimed has the potential to save the NHS millions of pounds.…

Walgreens Boots Alliance sales rise by 13.4% to $117.4bn

Walgreens Boots Alliance, owner of the Boots pharmacy chain, has reported a fall in profits of 1.1% to US$4.2bn, while sales rose by 13.4% to $117.4bn, for its 2016 fiscal year, which ended on 31 August 2016.…

NICE to fast track most cost-effective treatments

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England have proposed changes to NICE’s drug appraisal process so that some treatments become available more quickly to patients.…

Boots staff offered voluntary redundancy

Boots has announced that it has asked support office staff to volunteer for redundancy as part of plans to cut 700 jobs.…

UK government to tackle high drug prices

The UK government will be able to require pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of a generic medicine or to bring in other controls on a company’s unbranded medicine under a proposed bill to control drug prices.…

How locum pharmacy work inspired me to build my own business

Pharmacist and entrepreneur Jonathon Clarke explains what led him to create his own business — and why he didn’t give up.…