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Boots closes 18 stores in four months

Boots has closed 18 stores in the past four months and has said it will hit its planned closure programme target of 200 pharmacies by the end of August 2020, following a continued decline in profit since 2018.…

Boots to trial video GP consultations

Boots is to pilot an in-store video GP service that, it says, could increase patient access to healthcare services.…

LloydsPharmacy parent company says funding cuts and low prescriptions hit profits

LloydsPharmacy’s parent company has cited NHS funding cuts and low prescription volumes in the UK as the main reasons for a 53% fall in profits across its European business.…

Boots trials language interpretation service in five stores

An on-demand interpretation service for non-English speaking pharmacy patients is being trialled by Boots.…

LloydsPharmacy to close branch after NHS Property Services ‘doubles’ rent

A LloydsPharmacy branch is to close after the property’s rent was doubled by the government-run management company, the multiple’s parent company has said.…

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.…