Internet pharmacy

LloydsPharmacy’s parent company buys repeat prescription app

LloydsPharmacy’s parent company, McKesson UK, has bought the online repeat prescription app ‘Echo’ — one of several pharmacy apps now on the NHS Digital app library.…

Fast-track lanes for prescriptions ordered using Boots app to be introduced in stores

Patients will be fast-tracked and guaranteed to get their prescription within two minutes at some Boots stores, if they order repeat prescriptions using the company’s app or website, the company has announced.…

Online pharmacies required to verify patient ID before prescribing, under new GPhC guidelines

Online pharmacies will have to verify the identities of patients they are prescribing for, under new guidance published by the General Pharmaceutical Council.…

Pharmacy2U dispensed nearly a quarter of a million prescriptions monthly in 2017/2018

The UK’s largest online pharmacy dispensed an average of nearly a quarter of a million items every month in 2017/2018 — more than any other distance-selling pharmacy.…

Mark Lyonette: ‘You can only push people so far’

The chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association on meeting the health secretary, preparations for Brexit and whether the pressures on pharmacy are affecting patient safety.…

Majority of US consumers would be willing to buy prescription drugs through Amazon

Over 70% of Amazon customers in the United States would be willing to buy prescription drugs through the online retailer, according to the results of a survey carried out by Deutsche Bank. …

Pharmacy2U to open 7.5m-items-per-month dispensing facility

Online pharmacy Pharmacy2U is to open a new dispensing facility that will enable it to increase its dispensing capacity to 7.5 million items a month, more than 16 times its current capacity.…

Co-op returns to pharmacy market with purchase of repeat prescription app

The Co-op, which sold off its high street pharmacy business for £620 million in 2014, is returning to the market by buying the repeat prescription smartphone app Dimec.…

Pharmacy2U could face fresh investigation into advertising claims

An online pharmacy may face an investigation after it repeated claims similar to those which were ruled as “misleading and unsubstantiated” by the Advertising Standards Authority.…

More safeguards needed to protect patients buying medicines online, say pharmacy bodies

Pharmacy organisations have warned that proposals from the General Pharmaceutical Council to ensure the public obtains medicines and other pharmacy services safely online do not go far enough.…