Day Lewis, the UK's largest independent multiple pharmacy chain, has backed the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), signing a three-year membership deal with the organisation. The deal, which...

Staff at a Day Lewis pharmacy in London found that their controlled drugs cabinet foiled intruders, who broke in last month. The cabinet was found still attached to the wall but with a spade...

Practice With the March 1 Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership renewal deadline passed and multiples questioning the value of membership, the Society is remaining coy about membership numbers.

Fight for Fairness Following the revelation that dispensing businesses in England were left almost £470,000 out of pocket over the past two years, multiples have once more demanded action on payment reliability

Business Pharmacy businesses are braced for another tough year with profit margins set to fall by to 2 to 3 per cent and category M clawbacks continuing to hit their bottom lines.

With pharmacies being paid for just 43 per cent of new medicine service interventions in the first month, Melanie Hall examines what looks to have been a slow start for the service

As Day Lewis completes its first return-to-practice course, James Bloodworth and Emma Weinbren find out what support is available for pharmacists looking to get back in the dispensary

The moment England's contractors had been waiting for finally arrived as the community pharmacy cost of service inquiry (COSI) was published at the height of summer. Unfortunately, the...

Evolution is not always a good thing. Yes, it's hard to fault opposable digits, bigger brains and our ability to walk on the moon but, closer to home, could you be so positive about pharmacy's...

Day Lewis managing director Kirit Patel gives his thoughts on the main challenges for pharmacy, and explains how his new joint partnership scheme could help pharmacists overcome these obstacles

Business Alliance Boots has seen another year of double-digit growth, with revenue soaring by 18.4 per cent to £23 billion and trading profits up 12.4 per cent, despite the “challenging economic environment” and a drop in UK dispensing income.

Fitness to practise Noor Mohammed Zafar Shaikh, registration number 2059250, has been struck off the pharmacy register after refusing to pay back £26,000 in wages he wrongly received from the Co-operative Pharmacy, and "dishonestly" poaching patients while working at a separate business.

Business Boots has revamped the look and feel of its pharmacies to support a new strategy that will see the health and beauty giant focusing on "condition-led care".

Boots has held a conference with 5,000 of its pharmacists and store managers to share the company's strategic vision for pharmacy and look at how the multiple can become the "number one for...

Fitness to practise Boots has defended its decision to refer a store manager - who falsified positive customer feedback for his branch in 2010 - to the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Day Lewis, the UK's largest independent multiple pharmacy chain, has backed the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), signing a three-year membership deal with the organisation. The deal, which...

Legal Health and beauty giant Boots may be forced to pay compensation to some long-term employees after an employment tribunal ruled that it acted unlawfully when it cut Sunday pay rates by a quarter last year.

To compete with supermarkets, online offerings and other brands, Boots should work to create a stronger emotional link with consumers, who see the pharmacy group largely as a functional brand, a...

Pharmacist Bolade Oluwadare Onilari, registration number 2067110, has been suspended for four months by the GPhC after falsifying customer feedback for his Boots branch in Radford, Coventry

Daily digest Yet more controversy for the health service, with routine operation waiting times not being the only thing on the rise, writes Isobel Smith