Multiple pharmacy

Private pharmacy semaglutide services must provide long-term support, say experts

Exclusive: Online pharmacies and large multiples are already signing patients up to receive information about their new private semaglutide services as soon as the drug becomes available in the UK, which is expected to be soon.…

Should community pharmacies be offering injectable weight loss drugs?

As community pharmacies prepare to start providing the new weight loss drug Wegovy, we take a closer look at whether they are the right setting for people with obesity to access this medicine.…

Boots to trial £20 type 2 diabetes screening service

If deemed suitable for screening, patients will undergo a finger prick blood test and receive diagnostic test results within seven minutes.…

Boots reports operating profit of £8m for 2021

The multiple's 2021 operating profit is a stark contrast to its operating loss of £245m in 2020.…

Boots to offer training bursaries for 500 pharmacists to become independent prescribers

The bursaries form part of the multiple's plan to have a pharmacist independent prescriber in each of its stores.…

First pharmacogenomic testing service to be launched by pharmacy multiple later in 2022

Exclusive: If the Day Lewis service proves to be successful and cost effective, it could be commissioned more widely by the NHS.…

Revenue from LloydsPharmacy’s online offering increases by more than 700% in one year  

LloydsDirect, the online pharmacy, saw a 731% growth in revenue in the 2020/2021 fiscal year.…

LloydsPharmacy reports 11 percentage point increase in gender pay gap for 2021/2022

The median hourly pay gap at LloydsPharmacy was found to be 14.7% in favour of men, with women's mean hourly pay 32.1% lower than men's.…

Boots to provide mental health care service for £65 per month

The service has been launched in response to a rise in patients asking for mental health advice and support in Boots pharmacies.…

Boots in talks with NHS England on COVID-19 vaccination programme

The UK’s largest pharmacy multiple Boots is “in conversations” with NHS England about how it can help provide COVID-19 vaccines to patients, it has said.…