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Rowlands Pharmacy plans to reduce pharmacy network in order to ‘invest in the future’

Rowlands Pharmacy has announced plans to sell 70 of its pharmacies — 69 in England and one in Wales — in order to focus its investment on automation.…

Boots UK proposes new committee as alternative to PDA Union

Boots UK has pledged to launch a Joint Negotiation Committee to offer pharmacists “a louder voice” in their business and on the future of pharmacy.…

Boots UK launches specialist pharmacist role to recognise those working at the ‘cutting edge’

Boots UK is introducing a specialist pharmacist practitioner role to recognise pharmacists who are “operating at the cutting edge of community pharmacy practice”.…

Boots to switch from monitored dosage systems to patient pack dispensing in care homes

Exclusive: Boots is changing the way it dispenses medication for care home residents from monitored dosage systems to patient pack dispensing from 1 March 2019.…

Boots buys tech firm to boost its online provision

The pharmacy chain Boots has bought a health technology company that it says will allow patients to order prescriptions online by linking with their GP records.…

Why small community pharmacies are at risk and how we can save them

Independent pharmacies need a new kind of contract if they are to survive the threat from funding cuts and wholesaler market control, says the Pharmacists’ Defence Association’s head of policy, Alima Batchelor.…

Richard Bradley: ‘Face-to-face conversations are where the added value of pharmacy is’

Pharmacy director for Boots UK Richard Bradley on union representation, technology and dealing with negative press.…

CAC decides make up of Boots bargaining unit

All Boots pharmacists and managers at levels 5, 6, and 7, except those in field and support office roles, can vote on whether they will negotiate their pay, hours and holiday through the Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union, the Central Arbitration Committee has ruled.…

Talks between Boots and PDA Union end without agreement

Talks between Boots and the Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union over the future representation of Boots pharmacists have ended without agreement.…

PDA Union advises members not to repay bonus money to LloydsPharmacy until it explains calculation error

More than 100 members of the Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union have contacted them for advice after being asked by LloydsPharmacy to repay a portion of their bonus payments.…