Lloydspharmacy

The inquest of a 22-year-old patient who received his prescription twice due to a “prescribing error” has raised concerns over Pharmacy2U’s “swift dispatch of medication”.

The NHS has accepted Pharmacy2U’s application to take over the ownership of LloydsDirect, after previously refusing it earlier this year.

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) is preparing to support some 80 former Sainsbury’s pharmacists who only received statutory redundancy payments after Lloydspharmacy made them redundant in a four-day employment tribunal.

The pharmacy chain has taken over the running of four London hospital pharmacies from Lloydspharmacy, a hospital trust has announced.

“The uncertain future of pharmacy funding” has contributed to the company’s multi-million-pound loss, its annual report has said.

A Jhoots Pharmacy branch has been issued a second bailiff notice after it moved from an ex-Lloydspharmacy to a premise previously own by Boots.

The Independent Pharmacies Association (IPA) has warned that many of the pharmacies that were formerly part of the Lloydspharmacy estate are facing difficulties.

A coroner has raised concerns about the lack of “guidance” for pharmacists in a report on an elderly patient who died after taking medication from her husband’s “identical” dosette box.

The “vast majority” of ex-Lloydspharmacy branches have been snapped up by “independent or small local multiple operators”, pharmacy broker Christie & Co has revealed.

A Lloydspharmacy worker who stole Ozempic from the Widnes pharmacy she worked at has been given a suspended sentence of 29 weeks in prison.