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.…
Superdrug relaunches at-home COVID-19 antibody testing service High-street multiple Superdrug has relaunched its at-home COVID-19 antibody testing service, after it had been ”voluntarily and temporarily” withdrawn in May 2020.…
