Boots
1Alliance Healthcare has revealed “plans to close” two Midlands service centres and proposed cuts at another, putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
9Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has “entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired” by private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
5The health secretary has deemed Boots weight loss safeguards “totally unacceptable” after a new Dispatches documentary found that the pharmacy provided a 16-year-old with Wegovy against its own policy.
0Boots has issued a recall for 120,000 packs of its own brand paracetamol due to “incorrect packaging” and called on customers to return the product for a “full refund”.
0A pharmacist who sexually assaulted two patients in pharmacy consultation rooms will serve two years in prison.
0The pharmacy union has revealed that it has agreed an increase of up to 14% in the pay rate for trainee pharmacists with Boots.
0Boots’ parent company has halted its quarterly stockholders’ dividend pay-out in a move aimed at “strengthening WBA’s balance sheet”.
0Boots parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has seen its shares plummet amid reports that its talks to “sell itself” to a private equity firm are “mostly dead” and unlikely to result in a sale.
0Tauqeer Azam has been found guilty of sexually assaulting one woman and directing “remarks of a sexual nature” to another while conducting medical examinations at two pharmacies.
0The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed that Boots’ parent company “systematically pressured its pharmacists to fill prescriptions quickly”, despite clear “red flags” and patient deaths.