The Co-operative Pharmacy has landed a seven-year contract with a foundation trust to dispense to outpatients at two hospitals.

The deal with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust will see the multiple installed in the two hospitals from summer 2012, creating 15 jobs in the process.

The pharmacy service will be delivered to A&E patients and outpatients from a purpose-built pharmacy at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and from a newly refurbished area inside Calderdale Royal Hospital.

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The deal is expected to reduce waiting times for outpatients and bring financial savings for the trust. It comes after the multiple's first move into secondary care last September, when it announced that it had won a seven-year contract to provide outpatient dispensing at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. Commenting on the latest contract, the Co-operative Pharmacy's head of business development Mandeep Mudhar said: "There are many synergies with the foundation trust model and the Co-operative movement which makes the award all the more pleasing."

"Working in this way with the NHS is aligned with our existing business model and our ongoing goal of improving the health of our customers and their communities," Mr Mudhar added.

Mike Culshaw, clinical director of pharmacy at the trust, said: "We are really pleased to be working with the Co-operative Pharmacy on this project. We feel it will be of huge benefit to our patients, staff and visitors, and are delighted that all of this is being achieved at no extra cost."