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6Well Pharmacy has revealed that it suffered millions in losses over a “challenging” year, while its wholesaling arm was able to turn a £2.5 million profit.
1Four Morrisons pharmacies across England are set to close their doors for good, the supermarket has announced.
0Consultation numbers for a pharmacy service provider’s weight management service have grown “exponentially” in the last year, C+D has learned.
7The pharmacy minister and pharmacist MPs Sadik Al-Hassan and Taiwo Owatemi have all voted against exempting pharmacies from the upcoming national insurance hike.
8Pharmacies will not be exempt from the upcoming rise in national insurance after MPs rejected an amendment to the law.
2MP and pharmacist Sadik Al-Hassan has said the promised community pharmacy prescribing service is “deliverable” but not ready yet.
1Alliance Healthcare has revealed “plans to close” two Midlands service centres and proposed cuts at another, putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
2Award-winning Wicker Pharmacy has moved out of one of its premises in the hope this will save up to £60,000 a year to stay “sustainable”, it told C+D.
1M&D Green has bought nine Scottish community pharmacies from Northern Ireland-based Gordons Chemists in its “largest acquisition to date”.
9Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has “entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired” by private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
2Jhoots Chemist’s accounts for 2024 have revealed an almost £2 million year-on-year dip in shareholder funds – as debts to creditors increase more than £2m.
1Paydens Pharmacy has announced the rollout of a private prescribing service that allows patients to access same-day care “without needing to see their GP” for £15 per consultation.
1Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has told pharmacy owners to check their orders after receiving reports of “losses incurred” by contractors who unintentionally dispensed disallowed items.
0Sundip Gill could have received up to £40,000 in small business grants had he not been caught by City of Wolverhampton council’s counter fraud team.
0The Health and Social Care Committee has asked NHS England to respond by March 14 to questions on when the community pharmacy economic analysis will be finished, if it will publish it in full, and if not, why it won’t.
2A House of Lords debate has seen a majority agree to a Lib Dem amendment that pharmacies will be exempt from an increase in national insurance contributions.
0A Liberal Democrat analysis of an ONS Health Insight Survey said thousands of patients were forced to visit an urgent care service or a GP in less than a month due to “their usual pharmacy being unable to fill their NHS prescription”
12Dozens of pharmacy staff have been left unpaid after Sarbjit Singh ‘Charlie’ Jhooty bought three pharmacies from a group of doctors, with one claiming to be owed £17k and another missing money needed to “clothe and feed her four-week-old baby”, C+D has learned.
0Alcohol harm charity Drinkaware has partnered with Paydens Pharmacy to rollout a free “drinking check” in 128 of its stores in southeast England to “assess” the drinking habits of customers.
2A new SLA sent out for a local varenicline smoking cessation service means pharmacists who take up the service will be operating at a loss, and result in “clinical risk” if they take up the service.