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4Supermarket giant Morrisons has revealed plans to close four of its pharmacies following a "wide-ranging review".
1Alliance Healthcare has revealed “plans to close” two Midlands service centres and proposed cuts at another, putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
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.
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”.
1Asda has launched the “UK’s first” adult earache service at over 220 of its pharmacies in England to “[reduce] the burden on NHS services”, with same day appointments available and priced at £25.
0The UK's largest digital pharmacy has launched an “app-based answer to the government’s 10-year plan”, combining pharmacy, online GP consultations, NHS, vet, health and wellbeing services into a “single platform”.
1The CCA has welcomed the launch of a report by the Pharmacy Vaccinations Development Group (PVDG) which calls for community pharmacy to be “harnessed” to combat falling vaccine uptake
0An employment tribunal has ordered Day Lewis to pay a pharmacy assistant almost £20,000 for dismissing her after “period of sickness absence”.
0The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has announced it is in the “final stages” of “preparing” the case for those who made a complaint under the Boots Pension scheme’s dispute resolution procedure, which is set to “be submitted at the end of the month”.