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PDAU asks Boots to set up pay equality checks

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union has asked Boots to set up working parties to “equality check” its pay system as part of the first set of terms and conditions negotiations between the union and Boots.…

High street multiples take on the digital pharmacy revolution

Despite lagging behind their distance-selling counterparts in online dispensing, the digital revolution in community pharmacy may still be led by the top four high street pharmacy chains.…

Boots and PDA Union sign their first voluntary recognition agreement

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union has signed its first voluntary recognition agreement with Boots…

Boots’s centralised dispensing system aims to fulfil 22 million prescriptions per year

The UK’s biggest pharmacy chain plans to roll out access to its dispensing support pharmacy to 580 of its stores “over the coming months”, with the aim of it dispensing one in ten of all Boots prescriptions.…

Boots plans to let patients check medicines stock via medicine record software

Boots’s patient medication record system could allow patients, and eventually GPs, to see the multiple’s stock of medicine in each of its pharmacies before ordering repeat prescriptions.…

Stephen Watkins: ‘What we’re doing is about transformation of pharmacy’

Despite the recent announcement that it plans to close 200 stores, Stephen Watkins, director of pharmacy items at Boots, promises that its ongoing digital transformation will be a game changer for the entire industry.…

Union for Boots pharmacists pledges support for members affected by closures

The union that now represents Boots pharmacists has pledged to support its members who have been affected by the announced closures of 200 Boots stores in the UK by 2021.…

Boots to close 200 stores

Boots is to close 200 stores during the next 18 months, its US parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced.…

Boots prescription pick-up lockers launch in three UK stores

Patients collecting prescriptions ordered online from Boots can now do so using a locker system installed in three of its UK stores.…

John Nuttall to retire as chief executive of Well Pharmacy

Well Pharmacy has announced that its chief executive, John Nuttall, will retire from the company in autumn 2019 after 17 years at the helm.…