'No longer viable': York pharmacies to merge amid spiralling staff costs

Two York pharmacies are set to merge, with staff costs at a 100-hour branch making the site “no longer viable”, a pharmacy group based in the city has said.

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100-hour pharmacy to move onto site of 40-hour pharmacy, which will open for 66 hours

Richard Harrison, director of independent pharmacy group Citywide Health, told C+D yesterday (May 24) that the pharmacy’s rent at a health centre was also a “significant” cost.

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James Stent joined C+D as a digital reporter in May 2023 from the South African human rights news agency GroundUp, where he was senior reporter and consultant editor.

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