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Pharmacies ‘dismayed’ as pubs get 20% rates reduction

Pharmacies left out of Burnham’s business rates announcement

23 Jul 2026

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Administrators update on Scottish chain's fate as 17 employees made redundant

Holding company Amiry & Gilbride had become ‘reliant on cash injections’ say administrators

23 Jul 2026

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Pharmacies sold out of administration after falling into arrears with wholesalers

Neath pharmacies ‘could not maintain necessary stock levels’ after falling into debt

22 Jul 2026

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Three-quarters of adults rate pharmacies as ‘essential’ to high street

Expanding pharmacy services could boost regeneration efforts, finds Boots-funded report

20 Jul 2026

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Asda offers £5 ‘reward’ to private MenB vaccine patients

Supermarket chain announces reward points initiative as NHS campaign launches

20 Jul 2026

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Should pharmacists be expected to treat wounds? Tabloid story sparks reaction

‘There needs to be a line somewhere’: Pharmacists react to tabloid coverage

17 Jul 2026

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Don’t promote weight loss drugs to the public, ASA warns Phlo

Facebook ad paid for by Morrisons breached the advertising code for medicines, finds watchdog

15 Jul 2026

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‘Scandalous behaviour’: Tribunal orders ex-LloydsPharmacy employee to pay out £19k

Judge makes ‘exceptional’ costs order after claimant alleged to have forged sick note

15 Jul 2026

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A quarter of contractors take no salary as just 14% of pharmacies turn a profit

CPE’s pressures survey shows a fifth of pharmacies considering redundancies to manage costs

14 Jul 2026

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Dispensing GPs lose appeal against discontinuation after new pharmacy approved

Medical centre appealed ICB’s discontinuation order on financial sustainability grounds

14 Jul 2026

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CPE urges pharmacies to ‘action’ 194,000 unpaid and referred-back items worth £1.55m

Community Pharmacy England said the unpaid items equates to an average of £150 per pharmacy

10 Jul 2026

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‘Easier to counterfeit’: GPhC issues Wegovy pill warning

1 in 5 weight loss medicine users did not have treatment prescribed by a HCP, finds survey

09 Jul 2026

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Jail sentences for ‘highly profitable’ online medicines gang

Four jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court for their role in online diazepam operation

09 Jul 2026

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Pharmacy2U shareholders announce £500m continuation fund

The DSP is a ‘category-defining business’ says G Square Capital

08 Jul 2026

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Pharmacies placing ‘large orders’ with wholesalers as Wegovy tablets launch in UK

Product launching via a phased roll-out with lower strengths available first

06 Jul 2026

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Superdrug bucks high street trend as pre-tax profits rise to £144m

Health and beauty sector defies footfall slump seen elsewhere, say directors

06 Jul 2026

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