Phoenix

Phoenix UK has bought digital prescription service Co-op health in a big to “help independent pharmacies compete against the likes of Pharmacy2U”.   

Anderson warned that 30 to 50 per cent of pharmacies “could close in the next few years".

Numark and Phoenix UK have urged Boris Johnson to back up his words of encouragement for pharmacy.

Local health commissioners should consider promoting community pharmacies as a first port of call for health and wellbeing, NICE has said. 

Pharmacists outraged as the price of sertraline rockets past the £13 mark before falling again. “It’s a scandal,” says one.

The new dispensing facility will eventually assemble around 16 million repeat prescriptions a year for the Rowlands group.

Community pharmacy's unprecedented five-year funding deal has been met with a range of responses.