Lloydspharmacy must sell 12 stores as part of Sainsbury’s deal The Competition and Markets Authority has given approval to Celesio’s £125m takeover of Sainsbury’s pharmacy business, on the condition that the company sells 12 of its existing Lloydspharmacy stores.…
Superdrug reports surge in profits for 2015 Profits for high street retailer Superdrug, which operates just over 200 pharmacies, more than doubled in 2015, according to official figures published on 5 July 2016.…
Pharmacists’ Defence Association says professional standards will benefit corporate employers Proposed new professional standards for pharmacists have been condemned as “Orwellian” by the Pharmacists’ Defence Association, which says the standards have been designed to benefit large corporate pharmacy employers.…
Boots makes legal complaints against The Guardian newspaper Boots UK has made legal complaints against The Guardian in relation to several articles following its April 2016 investigation, which alleged that the pharmacy chain had placed undue pressure on its pharmacists to perform medicines use reviews so that it could claim the maximum payments possible fro…
GPhC will not investigate Boots over claims it put pharmacists under unacceptable workplace pressureThe General Pharmaceutical Council has decided not to investigate Boots over allegations that it placed unacceptable pressure on pharmacists to perform medicines use reviews.…
Government rethinks hub and spoke dispensing proposals The government is to reconsider its plans for hub and spoke dispensing, according to health minister Alastair Burt.…
Lloyds may face pharmacy closures if Sainsbury’s deal goes ahead Lloydspharmacy may have to sell branches in 13 areas of the UK if it wants to go ahead with the £125m deal to acquire 277 Sainsbury’s instore pharmacies and another four that the supermarket chain runs in NHS trusts.…
Claims that leading pharmacy chain conducts unnecessary MURs prompts call for review Pharmacy organisations are calling for changes to the way medicines use reviews (MURs) are conducted after an investigation by The Guardian claimed that a leading pharmacy chain was performing them unnecessarily to maximise profits.…
Automated hub-and-spoke dispensing: technology set to transform the business model of community pharmacy A facility in Warrington is using automated assembly lines and robotics to prepare prescriptions for a handful of community pharmacies in the north of England. This new model of dispensing medicines challenges the traditional role of community pharmacies but could increase efficiences and reduc…
Petition set up to target prime minister over pharmacy cuts, as PSNC warns against strikes The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) will be launching a petition for pharmacy contractors in an attempt to combat the government’s proposed 6% cuts to the community pharmacy contractual framework, chair Ian Strachan told delegates at the Sigma conference in Jamaica on 16 February 2016.…