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Weight loss jabs and the role of community pharmacy ... es available in England. Major retail chains have expanded into online healthcare, with Superdrug Online Doctor, Asda Online Doctor, LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor, and Boots Online Doctor all offering weight loss injection prescriptions. These services typically involve completing online medical questionnaires, doctor assessments, and home delivery or collection options. Dedicated weight loss clin ... Date: 19-06-2025 Categories: • Analysis • Analysis • Clinical • Community • In Practice
MHRA issues advice on Zentiva soluble and effervescent paracetamol ... questions about their medication should seek medical attention. Any suspected adverse reactions should also be reported via the MHRA Yellow Card scheme. In March, almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol were recalled because of a packaging error where they were incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister. Date: 03-06-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • In Practice • News • Pain
Boots launches training for pharmacists on ‘most common’ skin concerns Boots is set to provide dermatology training for its pharmacists in response to ‘increased demand’ for support for skin concerns. The training will enable pharmacists across 200 Boots stores to advise o ... Date: 30-05-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • Dermatology and wound care • News
Fresh calls for Pharmacy First expansion as consultations surpass five million ... pharmacist twelve times more than their GP.’ The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) collects weekly data from its members such as Boots, Pharmacy2U and Superdrug and has outlined how the service could be expanded to free up 40m GP appointments each year. Dr Thayer added: ‘Our data shows that over a quarter (27%) of Pharmacy First consultations took place in the 20% most deprived areas and among ... Date: 29-05-2025 Categories: • Community • Latest News • News • Pharmacy First
Batch of Mercaptopurine tablets recalled due to ‘microbial contamination’ ... hould seek medical attention, the alert added. Any suspected adverse reactions should also be reported via the MHRA Yellow Card scheme. In March, almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol were recalled because of a packaging error where they were incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister. Date: 22-05-2025 Categories: • Cancer • Clinical • Community • News
Pharmacies should be in 'driving seat' for neighbourhood health, says thinktank ... e collaborated to integrate data and design prevention-oriented services,' it said. 'Huge potential' for community pharmacy in neighbourhood health service The report was supported by Boots pharmacy, and drew on interviews with local and policy leaders: Professor Kate Ardern, former director of public health for Wigan Council Dr Michael Dixon CVO OBE, chair of the College of Medicine and Co-C ... Date: 25-03-2025 Categories: • Community • News
Equal pay 'still a big issue' for women in pharmacy ... rday 8 March warned. 'I think wages are kept quite secret, and it's only the largest companies that have to advertise them,' said community pharmacist Nicola Rees, a PDA national representative in Boots and NAWP committee member. She suggested said that 'secrecy around wages' kept gender inequalities in pharmacist pay 'under the carpet'. 'Women have been fighting for this for many, many years, ... Date: 17-03-2025 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News
Weight-loss jabs: private prescribers to get access to GP records with patient consent ... consent) may be a useful source of information for this.’ Channel 4 Wegovy exposé This week a Channel 4 documentary showed a 16-year-old girl obtaining Wegovy from a Boots pharmacy despite the company's policy of only supplying the drug to over 18s. In the Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, the 16-year old undercover reporter gave a false date of birth (stating she was 18) on her application for ... Date: 06-03-2025 Categories: • Community • News
Boots Paracetamol batch recalled after being wrongly labelled as Aspirin Almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol have been recalled because of a packaging error where they are incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has t ... Date: 04-03-2025 Categories: • Clinical • News • Pain
'You have advocates in Westminster', MP tells community pharmacy ... y Brown[/caption] The Pharmacy Vaccinations Development Group is sponsored by CSL Seqiris, GSK, Pfizer UK and Viatris, and includes representatives from AAH, Asda, Alliance Healthcare, Boots, GPhC, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), Numark, Pharmacy2U, Phoenix Medical, Rowlands Pharmacy, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Superdrug, Tesco, and Well. Date: 27-02-2025 Categories: • Community • News
CPE will help LPCs 'seize the opportunity' of local vaccination commissioning ... eryone eligible gets vaccinated – which is why are now working hard to reach anyone who hasn’t yet been jabbed and urging them to book an appointment.' Pharmacy multiple Boots has also launched a private RSV vaccination service for those aged 60 and above, priced at £245. Date: 11-02-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
'Full two-way consultation' for weight loss jabs should be required, says NPA ... nical need, including those with type two diabetes'. CCA: 'No need for additional regulation' But the Company Chemists' Association (CCA), which represents large pharmacy multiples such as Boots, Superdrug and Pharmacy2U, said it did not see the need for additional regulation. CCA chief executive Malcolm Harrison said in a statement today: 'CCA members have been remotely providing weight loss medi ... Date: 27-01-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • Diabetes and endocrinology • In Practice • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology
NHS app prescription tracking rolls out across 1,300 Boots stores Patients with Boots as a nominated pharmacy in England can now use the NHS app to see whether their prescription is ready to collect. The Pharmacist understands that Boots is the first supplier to roll out the functi ... Date: 23-12-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News
NHSE urged to commission pharmacy vaccinations NHS England (NHSE) should commission community pharmacies to deliver a wider range of NHS vaccines including pneumonia, shingles, meningitis, RSV and routine childhood vaccinations, the Company Chemists' A ... Date: 27-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
Boots launches private RSV vaccination service Boots has launched a private respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination service priced at £245. The chain claims it has become the ‘first multiple pharmacy’ to launch such a service. It comes as t ... Date: 25-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
RPS board member resigns amid plans for Royal College ... tial destination.’ Mr Churton was elected to the council of the RPS in 2007 and was appointed president in 2008. His career has also seen him hold several senior roles with Boots, including board director and superintendent pharmacist. Commenting on the resignation, Paul Bennett, RPS chief executive officer, said: ‘We are sorry to lose Steve‘s experience from the England Pharmacy Board and recogn ... Date: 21-11-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News
Draft legislation sets out steps for cutting business rates for pharmacies from 2026 ... ent cut to their tax rate, helping to level the playing field between them and online and out-of-town businesses.’ Sebastian James, former chief executive of Boots, said: ‘It is very welcome to see the government take steps to rebalance the heavy business rates load on bricks and mortar retail and hospitality as businesses, both large and small, in this vital sector seek to mitigate cost pressures i ... Date: 21-11-2024 Categories: • Community • News
Proposal for temporary pharmacy in shipping container to address access issues ... ients were spending a ‘significant time’ queuing for prescriptions and that both medicines and pharmacists were not always available. This came after a Boots Pharmacy, which was next to a GP surgery, closed in October 2023. In the summer, The Pharmacist mapped community pharmacy closures across England over the last five years, and uncovered a net loss of more than 1,000 bricks and mortar pharmac ... Date: 19-11-2024 Categories: • Community • News
Boots to expand Covid vaccinations amid rising test sales Boots has announced plans to expand its private Covid-19 vaccination service amid a ‘spike’ in sales for test kits. According to the retailer, purchases of test kits almost tripled in June this year com ... Date: 08-07-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
RPS to issue call for evidence on self-selection of P medicines ... pproach to self-selection of P Medicines was discussed at an RPS board meeting this week, alongside presentations from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and pharmacy multiple Boots, one of several pharmacies which have explored self-selection of P medicines. Boots have trialled redesigned counter areas to allow patients ‘easy access to medicines’ with ‘expert advice on hand’, according to th ... Date: 21-06-2024 Categories: • Community • News
ICB urged to ‘step in’ over pharmacy ‘crisis’ in Warminster ... rns that patients are spending a ‘significant time’ queuing for prescriptions and that both medicines and pharmacists are not always available. Warminster currently has two pharmacies, Boots Pharmacy in the Market Place and the Bestway Group’s Well Pharmacy in the Cornmarket. A separate Boots Pharmacy, which was next to a GP surgery, closed in October 2023. Councillors said the demographics of ... Date: 20-05-2024 Categories: • Community • News
PDA warns pharmacy targets 'must not sacrifice quality for quantity' ... is going to give eventually, and it must not be patient safety nor pharmacist wellbeing,’ she added. At a recent meeting between pharmacy multiple Boots UK and the PDA Union Joint Consultative Committee, PDA representatives raised concerns that publishing performance reports [for Pharmacy First consultations] was impacting pharmacists' mental health. In response, Mo Hassam, director of Boots Stor ... Date: 10-04-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Community pharmacy delivers first private Covid jabs ... told The Pharmacist that it was in discussions with suppliers about ‘potentially’ offering a private Covid vaccination service ‘this year’; while a spokesperson for Boots told The Pharmacist that the multiple 'would like to offer private Covid vaccinations' and was 'looking into how this might be possible'. Date: 08-03-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Boots recycling initiative aims to divert blister packs from landfill Boots has launched a recycling scheme for blister packs aimed at customers who cannot leave them for kerbside collection at home. The initiative – which is an extension of the Recycle at Boots scheme – ... Date: 27-02-2024 Categories: • Community • News
Mounjaro weight loss service hoped to ease supply issues ... ections. Hundreds of community pharmacies launched a Mounjaro service this week. This included 700 independent pharmacies partnering with service packages provider Pharmadoctor, multiples Boots, Asda, Superdrug, and online pharmacies Pharmacy2U, Simple Online Pharmacy and LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor. Pharmadoctor chief executive Graham Thoms said that Wegovy accounts for over 96% of all weigh ... Date: 16-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • Diabetes and endocrinology • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology
Quarter of all Covid vaccines administered in community pharmacies ... ved more than 80 appointment bookings for Covid vaccinations, Pharmadoctor chief executive Graham Thoms told The Pharmacist. Other pharmacies, including multiples Boots and Superdrug, have also said that they are exploring making private Covid vaccinations available to people outside the NHS-eligible cohort. Date: 15-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
Pharmacies can offer private Pfizer Covid jabs from March ... at targets the Omicron XBB 1.5 subvariant, which was recently approved by the MHRA for use in people over 12 years of age in Great Britian. Other pharmacies, including multiples Boots and Superdrug, have said that they are exploring making private Covid vaccinations available to people outside the NHS-eligible cohort. Date: 13-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
Covid-19 vaccine contract extensions to carry added spring payment ... s that service provider Pharmadoctor is offering community pharmacies a patient group direction package that could see them delivering private Covid vaccinations ‘within weeks’. Boots and Superdrug are also looking into private provision of Covid vaccines. Date: 05-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Andrea Leadsom pledges ‘appropriate resources’ for community pharmacy ... ss England,’ she added. Meanwhile, Labour (Co-op) MP for Huddersfield Barry Sheerman, highlighted the closure of a Boots branch in Westminster, as well as asking the minister if she had looked into pharmacy closures in the poorest areas of the country. Dame Andrea suggested that the more deprived parts of England ‘are much better served by community pharmacies than better-off areas are.’ And w ... Date: 02-02-2024 Categories: • Community • News
Pharmacies to deliver first private Covid vaccinations ... iable option and was in discussions with suppliers about ‘potentially’ offering a private covid vaccination service ‘this year’. And a spokesperson for Boots told The Pharmacist that the multiple 'would like to offer private Covid vaccinations' and was 'looking into how this might be possible'. Date: 01-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Over 10,000 pharmacies in England offering Pharmacy First from today A total of 10,265 community pharmacies in England will begin offering the new Pharmacy First service from today – marking what has been described as a ‘step-change’ for pharmacies, patients and the public. ... Date: 31-01-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First
Minimum wage hike ‘unsustainable’ with low funding, CPE warns Hunt ... actual framework’. Ms Morrison said the sector was ‘in crisis’, citing Lloyds Pharmacy exiting the high-street and Sainsbury’s in-store pharmacies, as well as Boots closures and other multiple pharmacy groups posting ‘record losses’. She wrote that ’the pain is being felt across all sizes of pharmacies – from large and medium chains to small independents, with many dispensing medicines at a loss ... Date: 04-12-2023 Categories: • News
AIMp survey suggests dissatisfaction with CPE representation ... ey following the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) nomination of the superintendent pharmacist of Pharmacy2U to become one of its representatives on CPE’s committee, replacing a Boots Pharmacy representative. AIMp has argued that the CCA’s retention of nine out of 24 seats on the CPE committee is not now representative of community pharmacy. Recent months have seen a ‘transition’ in community p ... Date: 04-12-2023 Categories: • News
Ask employers to sign Covid-19 safety pledge, urges PDA ... ment if they positive for Covid-19, until they have two negative tests from day five, or are able to return from day 11. The Pharmacist could not reach representatives from Boots, Superdrug, Tesco, or Rowlands. Morrisons and LloydsPharmacy declined to comment. Jasmine Shah, head of advice and support services at the NPA, said that it was advising its members to follow UKHSA and HSE guidance rega ... Date: 08-09-2023 Categories: • Community • News
Latest NHS community pharmacist figures ‘may be overestimated’ ... the sector’s workforce crisis ‘will deepen further’, Mr Donovan, who is also director of healthcare development and public affairs at Boots UK added. ‘There is a risk that the true potential of the sector will never truly be realised, potentially depriving patients of the opportunity to access greater care from their local pharmacy,’ Mr Donovan warned. Date: 06-09-2023 Categories: • Community • News
‘No known’ Wegovy supply issues, says DHSC ... ed and limited’, according to the Novo Nordisk, with a certain allocation of the drug protected for specialist NHS weight loss services, and some pharmacies offering private prescriptions. Boots UK told The Pharmacist that Wegovy would only be offered to patients already on its weight loss programme, while clinical services partner Pharmadoctor predicted an expansion in the number of pharmacies offe ... Date: 05-09-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology
‘Controlled and limited launch’ of Wegovy from today ... octor was not involved in the supply of Wegovy to pharmacies or patients, which he said was undertaken by individual pharmacists with their suppliers. Pharmacy multiple Boots also confirmed to The Pharmacist today that it was offering Wegovy. But it said that due to limited stock availability, Boots Online Doctor would currently only be offering Wegovy to patients currently using its Weight Loss ... Date: 04-09-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology
Chancellor and former health secretary protests local pharmacy closure The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has joined local Surrey residents in protesting the potential closure of a local Boots pharmacy. Mr Hunt, who was the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care between 2012 and 2018, has added his name to two local petitions against the potential closure of a Boots pharmacy in F ... Date: 15-08-2023 Categories: • News
‘Significant increases’ in pharmacists accessing mental health and financial support ... Act Now campaigns, shared awareness of the charity and partnered to deliver live online wellbeing workshops to Teva One members. And she said that pharmacy multiples Boots, Well Pharmacy and Day Lewis had partnered with the charity to develop wellbeing activities, ‘as well as a host of other organisations whose support enabled us to reach many more individuals’. The charity also thanked legacy do ... Date: 11-07-2023 Categories: • News
Exclusive: More than 15% of pharmacies sign up to provide contraception service ... pharmacy premises registered in England as of 30 June 2023, according to the most recent data from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Of those, 238 are part of multiple chain Asda, 22 are Boots branches, 10 are Well pharmacies, five are Tesco pharmacies, two are LloydsPharmacy branches and two are owned by Morrisons Supermarkets. Many others are part of independent multiple chains and gr ... Date: 07-07-2023 Categories: • News
Superdrug appoints new healthcare director with pharmacy background ... years of experience in retail and pharmacy, Ms Beal most recently held the position of retail and pharmacy services director at LloydsPharmacy. She previously spent 26 years at Walgreen Boots Alliance, and has held various management roles throughout her career, including pharmacy manager. Speaking on her appointment, Ms Beal said: ‘I’m excited to join such a dynamic brand and business to help deliv ... Date: 06-07-2023 Categories: • News
More detail on proposed pharmacist apprenticeships needed ... ent through a longer consultation period. It was delayed again in December 2020, with the group – which included representatives from Boots UK, Superdrug, Lloyds Pharmacy and Well – citing the need ‘to dispel misconceptions’ in the sector. While little public progress was made on the plans during the pandemic, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) said in 2022 that ‘it seems these employers ... Date: 05-07-2023 Categories: • News
Parliamentary committee highlights ‘slow progress’ on community pharmacy IT ... records. And it highlighted the limited functionality of the NHS app because it does not fully integrate with pharmacy systems. The report points to written evidence from pharmacy multiple Boots, which said that progress towards shared care records that could share information between different parts of the health service had been ‘slow’, and that there was ‘significant variation in data governa ... Date: 03-07-2023 Categories: • News
Boots closures will ‘consolidate’ stores and workforce Pharmacy multiple Boots has announced the closure of 300 UK stores over the next twelve months, citing the need to concentrate its team members ‘where they are needed’. Community Pharmacy England chief executive Janet Mo ... Date: 29-06-2023 Categories: • News
NHS weight-loss pilot announced but drug supply concerns continue ... ractitioners running weight management programmes did not know when the drug would be available, due to the already high demand for the product. In December 2022, community pharmacy chain Boots announced its plans for a Wegovy-based private weight-loss service, but that has yet to be launched. In October, the European Medicines Agency said that shortages of Ozempic were expected to continue throu ... Date: 07-06-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology
Growth in ‘pharmacy deserts’ as closures increase ... , that the true challenge became clear,’ he said. And with more closures planned over the next year than in the past three years combined, including 436 planned closures from Boots and Lloyds restructuring, Gophr said that ‘this could just be the beginning of pharmacy struggles’. ‘The fact that pharmacists are serving more customers at a speed that is not sustainable is concerning,’ said Mr Smith ... Date: 25-05-2023 Categories: • Latest News • News
WHSmith expanding its pharmacy one-stop-shops ... th a fast and convenient shopping experience,’ the retailer said. What's it like working in an airport pharmacy? We spoke to Hala Jawad, community pharmacist at Boots Gatwick, to find out. Date: 21-04-2023 Categories: • News
Increase in patient aggression due to medicines shortages ... ester. While a pilot across 83 Boots UK stores found that wearing body-worn video cameras reduced violent and aggressive incidents by 45%, prompting the multiple to roll out body cams to staff in an additional 225 locations. Patient abuse was highlighted alongside other pressures facing pharmacy teams including significant workload increases (81%), a lack of staff due to insufficient funding (48% ... Date: 20-04-2023 Categories: • News
Clinical in pharmacy: In airport pharmacy the day can start early at 4am! Hala Jawad is a community pharmacist based at Boots, London Gatwick Airport. She talks about the opportunities and challenges in helping the patients visiting an airport pharmacy. How long have you been working in community pharmacy? What attract ... Date: 06-04-2023 Categories: • Community • Views
Three in four pharmacies experiencing a pharmacist shortage, MPs told Almost three-quarters of pharmacies are experiencing a shortage of pharmacists, members of parliament were told at a roundtable event this week. MPs from across the political spectrum attended the event ... Date: 23-03-2023 Categories: • News

Weight loss jabs and the role of community pharmacy ... es available in England. Major retail chains have expanded into online healthcare, with Superdrug Online Doctor, Asda Online Doctor, LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor, and Boots Online Doctor all offering weight loss injection prescriptions. These services typically involve completing online medical questionnaires, doctor assessments, and home delivery or collection options. Dedicated weight loss clin ... Date: 19-06-2025 Categories: • Analysis • Analysis • Clinical • Community • In Practice

MHRA issues advice on Zentiva soluble and effervescent paracetamol ... questions about their medication should seek medical attention. Any suspected adverse reactions should also be reported via the MHRA Yellow Card scheme. In March, almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol were recalled because of a packaging error where they were incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister. Date: 03-06-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • In Practice • News • Pain

Boots launches training for pharmacists on ‘most common’ skin concerns Boots is set to provide dermatology training for its pharmacists in response to ‘increased demand’ for support for skin concerns. The training will enable pharmacists across 200 Boots stores to advise o ... Date: 30-05-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • Dermatology and wound care • News

Fresh calls for Pharmacy First expansion as consultations surpass five million ... pharmacist twelve times more than their GP.’ The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) collects weekly data from its members such as Boots, Pharmacy2U and Superdrug and has outlined how the service could be expanded to free up 40m GP appointments each year. Dr Thayer added: ‘Our data shows that over a quarter (27%) of Pharmacy First consultations took place in the 20% most deprived areas and among ... Date: 29-05-2025 Categories: • Community • Latest News • News • Pharmacy First

Batch of Mercaptopurine tablets recalled due to ‘microbial contamination’ ... hould seek medical attention, the alert added. Any suspected adverse reactions should also be reported via the MHRA Yellow Card scheme. In March, almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol were recalled because of a packaging error where they were incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister. Date: 22-05-2025 Categories: • Cancer • Clinical • Community • News

Pharmacies should be in 'driving seat' for neighbourhood health, says thinktank ... e collaborated to integrate data and design prevention-oriented services,' it said. 'Huge potential' for community pharmacy in neighbourhood health service The report was supported by Boots pharmacy, and drew on interviews with local and policy leaders: Professor Kate Ardern, former director of public health for Wigan Council Dr Michael Dixon CVO OBE, chair of the College of Medicine and Co-C ... Date: 25-03-2025 Categories: • Community • News

Equal pay 'still a big issue' for women in pharmacy ... rday 8 March warned. 'I think wages are kept quite secret, and it's only the largest companies that have to advertise them,' said community pharmacist Nicola Rees, a PDA national representative in Boots and NAWP committee member. She suggested said that 'secrecy around wages' kept gender inequalities in pharmacist pay 'under the carpet'. 'Women have been fighting for this for many, many years, ... Date: 17-03-2025 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News

Weight-loss jabs: private prescribers to get access to GP records with patient consent ... consent) may be a useful source of information for this.’ Channel 4 Wegovy exposé This week a Channel 4 documentary showed a 16-year-old girl obtaining Wegovy from a Boots pharmacy despite the company's policy of only supplying the drug to over 18s. In the Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, the 16-year old undercover reporter gave a false date of birth (stating she was 18) on her application for ... Date: 06-03-2025 Categories: • Community • News

Boots Paracetamol batch recalled after being wrongly labelled as Aspirin Almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol have been recalled because of a packaging error where they are incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has t ... Date: 04-03-2025 Categories: • Clinical • News • Pain

'You have advocates in Westminster', MP tells community pharmacy ... y Brown[/caption] The Pharmacy Vaccinations Development Group is sponsored by CSL Seqiris, GSK, Pfizer UK and Viatris, and includes representatives from AAH, Asda, Alliance Healthcare, Boots, GPhC, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), Numark, Pharmacy2U, Phoenix Medical, Rowlands Pharmacy, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Superdrug, Tesco, and Well. Date: 27-02-2025 Categories: • Community • News

CPE will help LPCs 'seize the opportunity' of local vaccination commissioning ... eryone eligible gets vaccinated – which is why are now working hard to reach anyone who hasn’t yet been jabbed and urging them to book an appointment.' Pharmacy multiple Boots has also launched a private RSV vaccination service for those aged 60 and above, priced at £245. Date: 11-02-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

'Full two-way consultation' for weight loss jabs should be required, says NPA ... nical need, including those with type two diabetes'. CCA: 'No need for additional regulation' But the Company Chemists' Association (CCA), which represents large pharmacy multiples such as Boots, Superdrug and Pharmacy2U, said it did not see the need for additional regulation. CCA chief executive Malcolm Harrison said in a statement today: 'CCA members have been remotely providing weight loss medi ... Date: 27-01-2025 Categories: • Clinical • Community • Diabetes and endocrinology • In Practice • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology

NHS app prescription tracking rolls out across 1,300 Boots stores Patients with Boots as a nominated pharmacy in England can now use the NHS app to see whether their prescription is ready to collect. The Pharmacist understands that Boots is the first supplier to roll out the functi ... Date: 23-12-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News

NHSE urged to commission pharmacy vaccinations NHS England (NHSE) should commission community pharmacies to deliver a wider range of NHS vaccines including pneumonia, shingles, meningitis, RSV and routine childhood vaccinations, the Company Chemists' A ... Date: 27-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

Boots launches private RSV vaccination service Boots has launched a private respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination service priced at £245. The chain claims it has become the ‘first multiple pharmacy’ to launch such a service. It comes as t ... Date: 25-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

RPS board member resigns amid plans for Royal College ... tial destination.’ Mr Churton was elected to the council of the RPS in 2007 and was appointed president in 2008. His career has also seen him hold several senior roles with Boots, including board director and superintendent pharmacist. Commenting on the resignation, Paul Bennett, RPS chief executive officer, said: ‘We are sorry to lose Steve‘s experience from the England Pharmacy Board and recogn ... Date: 21-11-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News

Draft legislation sets out steps for cutting business rates for pharmacies from 2026 ... ent cut to their tax rate, helping to level the playing field between them and online and out-of-town businesses.’ Sebastian James, former chief executive of Boots, said: ‘It is very welcome to see the government take steps to rebalance the heavy business rates load on bricks and mortar retail and hospitality as businesses, both large and small, in this vital sector seek to mitigate cost pressures i ... Date: 21-11-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Proposal for temporary pharmacy in shipping container to address access issues ... ients were spending a ‘significant time’ queuing for prescriptions and that both medicines and pharmacists were not always available. This came after a Boots Pharmacy, which was next to a GP surgery, closed in October 2023. In the summer, The Pharmacist mapped community pharmacy closures across England over the last five years, and uncovered a net loss of more than 1,000 bricks and mortar pharmac ... Date: 19-11-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Boots to expand Covid vaccinations amid rising test sales Boots has announced plans to expand its private Covid-19 vaccination service amid a ‘spike’ in sales for test kits. According to the retailer, purchases of test kits almost tripled in June this year com ... Date: 08-07-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

RPS to issue call for evidence on self-selection of P medicines ... pproach to self-selection of P Medicines was discussed at an RPS board meeting this week, alongside presentations from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and pharmacy multiple Boots, one of several pharmacies which have explored self-selection of P medicines. Boots have trialled redesigned counter areas to allow patients ‘easy access to medicines’ with ‘expert advice on hand’, according to th ... Date: 21-06-2024 Categories: • Community • News

ICB urged to ‘step in’ over pharmacy ‘crisis’ in Warminster ... rns that patients are spending a ‘significant time’ queuing for prescriptions and that both medicines and pharmacists are not always available. Warminster currently has two pharmacies, Boots Pharmacy in the Market Place and the Bestway Group’s Well Pharmacy in the Cornmarket. A separate Boots Pharmacy, which was next to a GP surgery, closed in October 2023. Councillors said the demographics of ... Date: 20-05-2024 Categories: • Community • News

PDA warns pharmacy targets 'must not sacrifice quality for quantity' ... is going to give eventually, and it must not be patient safety nor pharmacist wellbeing,’ she added. At a recent meeting between pharmacy multiple Boots UK and the PDA Union Joint Consultative Committee, PDA representatives raised concerns that publishing performance reports [for Pharmacy First consultations] was impacting pharmacists' mental health. In response, Mo Hassam, director of Boots Stor ... Date: 10-04-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First

Community pharmacy delivers first private Covid jabs ... told The Pharmacist that it was in discussions with suppliers about ‘potentially’ offering a private Covid vaccination service ‘this year’; while a spokesperson for Boots told The Pharmacist that the multiple 'would like to offer private Covid vaccinations' and was 'looking into how this might be possible'. Date: 08-03-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Boots recycling initiative aims to divert blister packs from landfill Boots has launched a recycling scheme for blister packs aimed at customers who cannot leave them for kerbside collection at home. The initiative – which is an extension of the Recycle at Boots scheme – ... Date: 27-02-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Mounjaro weight loss service hoped to ease supply issues ... ections. Hundreds of community pharmacies launched a Mounjaro service this week. This included 700 independent pharmacies partnering with service packages provider Pharmadoctor, multiples Boots, Asda, Superdrug, and online pharmacies Pharmacy2U, Simple Online Pharmacy and LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor. Pharmadoctor chief executive Graham Thoms said that Wegovy accounts for over 96% of all weigh ... Date: 16-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • Diabetes and endocrinology • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology

Quarter of all Covid vaccines administered in community pharmacies ... ved more than 80 appointment bookings for Covid vaccinations, Pharmadoctor chief executive Graham Thoms told The Pharmacist. Other pharmacies, including multiples Boots and Superdrug, have also said that they are exploring making private Covid vaccinations available to people outside the NHS-eligible cohort. Date: 15-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

Pharmacies can offer private Pfizer Covid jabs from March ... at targets the Omicron XBB 1.5 subvariant, which was recently approved by the MHRA for use in people over 12 years of age in Great Britian. Other pharmacies, including multiples Boots and Superdrug, have said that they are exploring making private Covid vaccinations available to people outside the NHS-eligible cohort. Date: 13-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

Covid-19 vaccine contract extensions to carry added spring payment ... s that service provider Pharmadoctor is offering community pharmacies a patient group direction package that could see them delivering private Covid vaccinations ‘within weeks’. Boots and Superdrug are also looking into private provision of Covid vaccines. Date: 05-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Andrea Leadsom pledges ‘appropriate resources’ for community pharmacy ... ss England,’ she added. Meanwhile, Labour (Co-op) MP for Huddersfield Barry Sheerman, highlighted the closure of a Boots branch in Westminster, as well as asking the minister if she had looked into pharmacy closures in the poorest areas of the country. Dame Andrea suggested that the more deprived parts of England ‘are much better served by community pharmacies than better-off areas are.’ And w ... Date: 02-02-2024 Categories: • Community • News

Pharmacies to deliver first private Covid vaccinations ... iable option and was in discussions with suppliers about ‘potentially’ offering a private covid vaccination service ‘this year’. And a spokesperson for Boots told The Pharmacist that the multiple 'would like to offer private Covid vaccinations' and was 'looking into how this might be possible'. Date: 01-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Over 10,000 pharmacies in England offering Pharmacy First from today A total of 10,265 community pharmacies in England will begin offering the new Pharmacy First service from today – marking what has been described as a ‘step-change’ for pharmacies, patients and the public. ... Date: 31-01-2024 Categories: • Community • News • Pharmacy First

Minimum wage hike ‘unsustainable’ with low funding, CPE warns Hunt ... actual framework’. Ms Morrison said the sector was ‘in crisis’, citing Lloyds Pharmacy exiting the high-street and Sainsbury’s in-store pharmacies, as well as Boots closures and other multiple pharmacy groups posting ‘record losses’. She wrote that ’the pain is being felt across all sizes of pharmacies – from large and medium chains to small independents, with many dispensing medicines at a loss ... Date: 04-12-2023 Categories: • News

AIMp survey suggests dissatisfaction with CPE representation ... ey following the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) nomination of the superintendent pharmacist of Pharmacy2U to become one of its representatives on CPE’s committee, replacing a Boots Pharmacy representative. AIMp has argued that the CCA’s retention of nine out of 24 seats on the CPE committee is not now representative of community pharmacy. Recent months have seen a ‘transition’ in community p ... Date: 04-12-2023 Categories: • News

Ask employers to sign Covid-19 safety pledge, urges PDA ... ment if they positive for Covid-19, until they have two negative tests from day five, or are able to return from day 11. The Pharmacist could not reach representatives from Boots, Superdrug, Tesco, or Rowlands. Morrisons and LloydsPharmacy declined to comment. Jasmine Shah, head of advice and support services at the NPA, said that it was advising its members to follow UKHSA and HSE guidance rega ... Date: 08-09-2023 Categories: • Community • News

Latest NHS community pharmacist figures ‘may be overestimated’ ... the sector’s workforce crisis ‘will deepen further’, Mr Donovan, who is also director of healthcare development and public affairs at Boots UK added. ‘There is a risk that the true potential of the sector will never truly be realised, potentially depriving patients of the opportunity to access greater care from their local pharmacy,’ Mr Donovan warned. Date: 06-09-2023 Categories: • Community • News

‘No known’ Wegovy supply issues, says DHSC ... ed and limited’, according to the Novo Nordisk, with a certain allocation of the drug protected for specialist NHS weight loss services, and some pharmacies offering private prescriptions. Boots UK told The Pharmacist that Wegovy would only be offered to patients already on its weight loss programme, while clinical services partner Pharmadoctor predicted an expansion in the number of pharmacies offe ... Date: 05-09-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology

‘Controlled and limited launch’ of Wegovy from today ... octor was not involved in the supply of Wegovy to pharmacies or patients, which he said was undertaken by individual pharmacists with their suppliers. Pharmacy multiple Boots also confirmed to The Pharmacist today that it was offering Wegovy. But it said that due to limited stock availability, Boots Online Doctor would currently only be offering Wegovy to patients currently using its Weight Loss ... Date: 04-09-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology

Chancellor and former health secretary protests local pharmacy closure The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has joined local Surrey residents in protesting the potential closure of a local Boots pharmacy. Mr Hunt, who was the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care between 2012 and 2018, has added his name to two local petitions against the potential closure of a Boots pharmacy in F ... Date: 15-08-2023 Categories: • News

‘Significant increases’ in pharmacists accessing mental health and financial support ... Act Now campaigns, shared awareness of the charity and partnered to deliver live online wellbeing workshops to Teva One members. And she said that pharmacy multiples Boots, Well Pharmacy and Day Lewis had partnered with the charity to develop wellbeing activities, ‘as well as a host of other organisations whose support enabled us to reach many more individuals’. The charity also thanked legacy do ... Date: 11-07-2023 Categories: • News

Exclusive: More than 15% of pharmacies sign up to provide contraception service ... pharmacy premises registered in England as of 30 June 2023, according to the most recent data from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Of those, 238 are part of multiple chain Asda, 22 are Boots branches, 10 are Well pharmacies, five are Tesco pharmacies, two are LloydsPharmacy branches and two are owned by Morrisons Supermarkets. Many others are part of independent multiple chains and gr ... Date: 07-07-2023 Categories: • News

Superdrug appoints new healthcare director with pharmacy background ... years of experience in retail and pharmacy, Ms Beal most recently held the position of retail and pharmacy services director at LloydsPharmacy. She previously spent 26 years at Walgreen Boots Alliance, and has held various management roles throughout her career, including pharmacy manager. Speaking on her appointment, Ms Beal said: ‘I’m excited to join such a dynamic brand and business to help deliv ... Date: 06-07-2023 Categories: • News

More detail on proposed pharmacist apprenticeships needed ... ent through a longer consultation period. It was delayed again in December 2020, with the group – which included representatives from Boots UK, Superdrug, Lloyds Pharmacy and Well – citing the need ‘to dispel misconceptions’ in the sector. While little public progress was made on the plans during the pandemic, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) said in 2022 that ‘it seems these employers ... Date: 05-07-2023 Categories: • News

Parliamentary committee highlights ‘slow progress’ on community pharmacy IT ... records. And it highlighted the limited functionality of the NHS app because it does not fully integrate with pharmacy systems. The report points to written evidence from pharmacy multiple Boots, which said that progress towards shared care records that could share information between different parts of the health service had been ‘slow’, and that there was ‘significant variation in data governa ... Date: 03-07-2023 Categories: • News

Boots closures will ‘consolidate’ stores and workforce Pharmacy multiple Boots has announced the closure of 300 UK stores over the next twelve months, citing the need to concentrate its team members ‘where they are needed’. Community Pharmacy England chief executive Janet Mo ... Date: 29-06-2023 Categories: • News

NHS weight-loss pilot announced but drug supply concerns continue ... ractitioners running weight management programmes did not know when the drug would be available, due to the already high demand for the product. In December 2022, community pharmacy chain Boots announced its plans for a Wegovy-based private weight-loss service, but that has yet to be launched. In October, the European Medicines Agency said that shortages of Ozempic were expected to continue throu ... Date: 07-06-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Nutrition and gastroenterology

Growth in ‘pharmacy deserts’ as closures increase ... , that the true challenge became clear,’ he said. And with more closures planned over the next year than in the past three years combined, including 436 planned closures from Boots and Lloyds restructuring, Gophr said that ‘this could just be the beginning of pharmacy struggles’. ‘The fact that pharmacists are serving more customers at a speed that is not sustainable is concerning,’ said Mr Smith ... Date: 25-05-2023 Categories: • Latest News • News

WHSmith expanding its pharmacy one-stop-shops ... th a fast and convenient shopping experience,’ the retailer said. What's it like working in an airport pharmacy? We spoke to Hala Jawad, community pharmacist at Boots Gatwick, to find out. Date: 21-04-2023 Categories: • News

Increase in patient aggression due to medicines shortages ... ester. While a pilot across 83 Boots UK stores found that wearing body-worn video cameras reduced violent and aggressive incidents by 45%, prompting the multiple to roll out body cams to staff in an additional 225 locations. Patient abuse was highlighted alongside other pressures facing pharmacy teams including significant workload increases (81%), a lack of staff due to insufficient funding (48% ... Date: 20-04-2023 Categories: • News

Clinical in pharmacy: In airport pharmacy the day can start early at 4am! Hala Jawad is a community pharmacist based at Boots, London Gatwick Airport. She talks about the opportunities and challenges in helping the patients visiting an airport pharmacy. How long have you been working in community pharmacy? What attract ... Date: 06-04-2023 Categories: • Community • Views

Three in four pharmacies experiencing a pharmacist shortage, MPs told Almost three-quarters of pharmacies are experiencing a shortage of pharmacists, members of parliament were told at a roundtable event this week. MPs from across the political spectrum attended the event ... Date: 23-03-2023 Categories: • News

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