LloydsPharmacy ceases operating 90% of branches in 18 months Exclusive: LloydsPharmacy is running 138 pharmacies in October 2023, compared with 1,338 pharmacies in March 2022, General Pharmaceutical Council figures show.…
Boots pharmacists to get 5% pay rise and one-off bonus payment A one-off payment of £750 will be paid in August 2024 to support the extra work in setting up and running additional community pharmacy services.…
Pharmacy2U buys online pharmacy LloydsDirect The combined company will have 1.4 million electronic prescription service nominations.…
Pharmacists take legal action against LloydsPharmacy over redundancy payments Pharmacists who worked in branches of Sainsbury’s have brought a claim against LloydsPharmacy regarding enhanced redundancy payments they believe they should have received.…
Why are we ‘Booting’ out community pharmacy capacity? This month, The Pharmaceutical Journal’s health policy columnist analyses the practical and financial implications of widespread community pharmacy closures.…
Redundancy ‘a possibility’ for Boots pharmacists as it shuts 300 pharmacies, union says The Pharmacists' Defence Association said it expects at-risk Boots employees to receive “adequate redundancy compensation".…
Boots to close 300 pharmacies as part of cost-cutting plan The plans were announced during a presentation to investors on Walgreen Boots Alliance's latest quarterly financial results.…
Pharmacies ‘may not be able to cope’ with demand following closure of all Sainsbury’s LloydsPharmacy branches Janet Morrison, chief executive of Community Pharmacy England, said the situation following the closure of 237 LloydsPharmacy branches was “deeply worrying”.…
Rowlands acquires 30 LloydsPharmacy branches in Scotland The acquisition follows LloydsPharmacy's previous announcement of the closure of its stores based in Sainsbury's supermarkets.…
LloydsPharmacy pharmacists agree to bonus payment but no salary increase in settlement The Pharmacists' Defence Association Union, which represents pharmacists working at LloydsPharmacy, said the deal had been agreed owing to job uncertainty at the multiple for many members.…
