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VPAG review brought forward amid concerns over payment rates

Autumn review of the VPAG medicines pricing scheme brought forward to June after ABPI warning on rocketing payments.

08 Apr 2025

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Challenging business rates: A quick guide for pharmacies

You can challenge the accuracy of your rates – but it's not without its hazards

21 Mar 2025

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GP landlords close health centre-based pharmacy in Exeter

GP landlords at South Lawn Medical Practice and The Heavitree Practice closed a branch of Allied Pharmacies in a health centre.

15 Jan 2025

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Morrisons and Phlo launch online private prescription service

The Morrisons Clinic will allow patients to receive treatments possibly by the next working day.

03 Jan 2025

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NPA: PhAS failing to protect pharmacies from closing

Dozens of pharmacies covered by Pharmacy Access Scheme have closed in the past two years, a new analysis claims.

02 Jan 2025

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Over 50pc of pharmacies plan to invest in automation says survey

Over half of pharmacies plan to invest in automation in the next 12 months, says a survey from automation company Omnicell.

03 Dec 2024

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Outsider: Ask your pharmacist what, exactly?

Would we be better off hawking vapes and pot noodles? Outsider muses...

29 Oct 2024

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How stopping free services turned my business around

A Bath contractor says stopping free dosette boxes has helped a once-struggling business

17 Oct 2024

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Father and son buy pharmacy in Birmingham after owner retires

Ian and Jas Riaar bought Wards Chemist in the village of Handsworth Wood in North Birmingham.

10 Oct 2024

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Pharmacy owners don’t know how long they can remain open as pressures bite

Nearly a sixth of community pharmacies in England could close within a year, CPE pressures survey warns.

27 Aug 2024

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Soundbites: Ifti Khan, superintendent pharmacist at Well

Well Pharmacy's superintendent on why NHSE needs to be realistic about Pharmacy First thresholds

09 Aug 2024

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Walthamstow pharmacy sold to small London-based group

Cavendish Pharmacy in Walthamstow, North East London, has been sold through Christie & Co for an undisclosed price to a small, expanding London-based group.

24 Jun 2024

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Numark chairman questions NPA’s June 20 loss-making claim

Harry McQuillan said the average UK pharmacy was not loss making in the last third of the month.

12 Jun 2024

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The grown-ups in the CBD space

The Irish entrepreneur on the work that has led to a landmark FSA decision

30 May 2024

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French pharmacists strike over closures, shortages and online pharmacy proposals

Up to 90 per cent of French pharmacies closing their doors in one-day strike

30 May 2024

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Jhoots branch closed with repossession notice from bailiff company

Staff turned up for work at the Rainham branch on Friday morning to discover “several notices up in the window”.

22 Apr 2024

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