Boots

“Hundreds” of Boots Pharmacists' Association (BPA) members will be balloted on plans to merge the union with the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA), C+D has learned.

Boots pharmacists can expect a 4% uplift in pay, while pharmacist store managers and long-time pharmacist workers will see new minimum pay rates, the PDA has announced.

Two Walgreens whistleblowers will receive multimillion-dollar rewards for alerting the US government to the pharmacy chain’s “false” prescription claims, the US justice department has revealed.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has appointed Anthony Hemmerdinger, who originally joined the business as a teen, as managing director of Boots UK and Ireland.  

A tribunal has ordered Boots alone to pay a pharmacist some £15,000 after finding he was wrongfully dismissed and stereotyped “as an aggressive black man” at work. 

A Boots pharmacist has been given a warning by the GPhC after a patient slept for 48 hours following a dispensing error.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has sold off $1.1bn-worth of shares in a wholesaler, with the cash from the sale to be used to pay for debts and to create more “capital-efficient” retail pharmacies. 

The PDA has revealed that Boots will pay its pharmacists and pharmacist store managers a £750 bonus in August for their work on delivering NHS services.

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has announced it will “step up” its dispute campaign after discovering that Boots changed pension rules “on the day [a] buyout was announced”. 

Patients have branded Boots management “miserable gits” for banning the famous feline from its Didcot branch.