Multiples

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 Rowlands Pharmacy branch has reopened its doors after working from a portacabin for over three weeks due to damage caused by a fire in its original premises.

CPE has announced that the seat allocation on its committee will change “as quickly as possible” – in 2026.

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.

Novo Nordisk induced multiple “large” pharmacy chains to prescribe one of its weight loss drugs by providing “free of charge” sharps bins, needles and injection-pen travel wallets, the prescription medicine self-regulatory body has found.  

The PDA has taken the next step in securing union recognition at Superdrug, it announced last week.

While some multiples have kept costs cut, all but one of the biggest pharmacy chains have upped the price of private winter flu jabs for 2024…  

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.

Derbyshire multiple Peak Pharmacy saw “difficult trading conditions” affect profitability despite rising sales, its annual report 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.