Premises

Revealed: Who snapped up the most Lloydspharmacy premises?

Revealed: Who snapped up the most Lloydspharmacy premises?

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

Fire-ravaged Rowlands branch opens ‘new-look premises’ after portacabin stint

Fire-ravaged Rowlands branch opens ‘new-look premises’ after portacabin stint

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.

‘It was amazing!’: Olympics lead pharmacist on dispensing to the world’s best athletes

‘It was amazing!’: Olympics lead pharmacist on dispensing to the world’s best athletes

How did someone with no experience in sports medicine end up as chief pharmacist at the Olympics? C+D spoke exclusively with the lead pharmacist who ran an athletic three-month operation out of a 24/7 polyclinic in the Olympic Village this summer… 

Day Lewis - how we are preparing for the advent of Hub and Spoke

Day Lewis - how we are preparing for the advent of Hub and Spoke

Visibility, control, seamless communication, real risks and 'two very important things'. What has Day Lewis pharmacy process improvement manager Danny McNally discovered trialing a new way of working to take advantage of Hub and Spoke?

Revealed: Almost 47,000 hours lost to temporary pharmacy closures last year

Revealed: Almost 47,000 hours lost to temporary pharmacy closures last year

Almost six thousand working days were lost to temporary pharmacy closures in 2023, new data from Healthwatch has revealed.  

Jhoots Pharmacy disposing of ‘existing branches’ amid £350k annual loss

Jhoots Pharmacy disposing of ‘existing branches’ amid £350k annual loss

Jhoots’ annual report has revealed that directors are “confident of [its] future prospects” and have paid their other businesses thousands of pounds in “management fees”, despite suffering losses for another year. 

‘We lost everything in the fire’: Rowlands branch reopens in portacabin

‘We lost everything in the fire’: Rowlands branch reopens in portacabin

A Rowlands Pharmacy branch has reopened in a “temporary cabin” after the original premise was decimated in a fire, it has announced.  

Roof break-in burglars pinch Viagra, cash and sleeping pills

Roof break-in burglars pinch Viagra, cash and sleeping pills

Northamptonshire Police have urged anyone with information to come forward after burglars broke into a pharmacy “via the roof” and stole Viagra, cash and sleeping pills.

Opinion: The DH needs to act on allergies after latest death

Opinion: The DH needs to act on allergies after latest death

A coroner has said a national shortage of EpiPens meant a pharmacist could not prevent the death of a young girl. She's asked the Department of Health to take action. It's said it will keep thinking about it.

‘Deep distress’: Almost two-thirds of pharmacies losing money warns CPE

‘Deep distress’: Almost two-thirds of pharmacies losing money warns CPE

Some 65% of pharmacies are operating at a loss, while one in six may close “within the next year”, survey data from the pharmacy negotiator has revealed.