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Lloydspharmacy has begun rolling out a new dispensing system across its Welsh branches, aiming to have it live across all its British pharmacies by next year, C+D has learned.
Introduced to replace the existing 20-year-old dispensing system, the new one has been piloting in Wales, where it is currently being rolled out, Toby Anderson, CEO of Lloydspharmacy’s parent company McKesson UK, told C+D in an interview last month (September 10).
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