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‘Why Boots’ new strategy could be an opportunity for independents’
When Boots announced it is planning to close around 200 branches, I was initially surprised that even the UK’s largest multiple couldn’t hack the...
16/09/2019 7
'We are on treatment for depression and scared for the future'
I bought a thriving community pharmacy three years ago in north England with my pharmacist husband using savings, a family loan and a bank loan. Now...
11/09/2019 20
Boots is set to close 200 loss-making pharmacies over the next 18 months
Four Boots branches shut following announcement of 200 closures
Boots’ parent company announced in June that it is looking to “reduce [its] store count by 8%” in the UK through an “optimisation programme” that...
09/09/2019 2
EXCLUSIVE
PSNC: Urgent negotiations on the distribution of funding are still ongoing
5-year deal may mean more pharmacy closures and mergers, warns PSNC
It is “clear” that the next five years under the funding contract for England is going to involve “significant changes” for community pharmacies, the...
04/09/2019 12
EXCLUSIVE
John Nuttall: Our use of hub-and-spoke dispensing gives us an advantage
Well hopes to ‘mop up’ extra workload from any closures across sector
While it will be “for the new CEO to determine whether there's a change in strategy”, outgoing chief executive John Nuttall said Well Pharmacy “...
29/08/2019 15
EXCLUSIVE
Toby Anderson: The government has made it clear it thinks there are too many pharmacies
Lloydspharmacy CEO: Definitely more closures across the sector to come
The government has been “very clear” that it believes there are too many pharmacies in England, Toby Anderson, CEO of Lloydspharmacy’s parent company...
23/08/2019 13
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Mark Bather: All affected staff will be included in Rowlands’ plans until their branches are sold
Rowlands chief: We won’t close 58 branches if they don’t sell
The multiple announced in February that it had put 70 of its branches up for sale to focus on a “slightly smaller pharmacy network”. It then withdrew...
20/08/2019 3
Lloydspharmacy in Weston Favell Health Centre will close in October (Credit: © 2019 Google, image capture: June 2018)
Lloydspharmacy blames rising rents for closure of health centre branch
The branch in Weston Favell Health Centre, Northampton, will close at the end of October “as a result of NHS Property Services doubling our rental...
05/08/2019 9
DH: Funding is still supporting more pharmacies than necessary in some parts of England
DH froze funding on belief there are still too many pharmacies
The contract for England was unveiled on Monday (July 22), with the annual global sum remaining at its reduced level of £2.592 billion for the next...
24/07/2019 19
Contractors fear closure amid finance chaos and plummeting profit
After almost three years of funding cuts in England, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee estimates there have been 233 confirmed...
19/07/2019 5

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