Business news

PMR Prescription charges Pharmacy finances Wellness Novo Nordisk Online pharmacies Chancellor

calculators-summary

Financial Management & Funding,

Cohens Chemist posts £9.2m loss for 2024-25 financial year

Cohens posts another consecutive loss but welcomes EBIDTA improvement

29 May 2026

superdrug-summary

Business environment,

Superdrug parent eyes $30bn stock exchange listing before year’s end

AS Watson planning IPO in both London and Hong Kong according to reports

28 May 2026

green-cross-pharmacy-summary

Financial Management & Funding,

CPCF funding up 10% - but CPE issues ‘set up to fail’ prescribing service warning

Funding for England’s pharmacies rises £340m in newly announced 2026-27 deal

28 May 2026

p2u-heart-check-summary

Cardiovascular diseases,

P2U offers free heart checks to 100,000 workers

P2U first targets Royal Mail staff in bid to improve cholesterol testing awareness

27 May 2026

injection-pen-summary

Regulations,

Online pharmacy reprimanded over ‘urgent’ Black Friday GLP-1 promotions

ASA upholds complaint against Voy over marketing emails to its service users

27 May 2026

Nutrition & weight management,

Lilly claims retatrutide delivers ‘bariatric-level’ weight loss in trial

Manufacturer shares ‘powerful’ results from weight loss drug trial

26 May 2026

medicines-1280x720

Business environment,

Supply chains now in a period of sustained instability, say Moody's

Geopolitics, manufacturing fragility, cyber risk and counterfeit drugs are the factors behind supply chain issues, says report from Moody's

26 May 2026

online-sale-summary

Business environment,

ASA upholds complaint against ‘misleading’ Boots Black Friday promotion

Boots takes measures to prevent inaccurate price promotions following fragrance ad complaint

21 May 2026

Nutrition & weight management,

DSP launches peptides-led weight management brand with £1.3m campaign

MedPal AI announces brand launch in anticipation of Wegovy pill approval

21 May 2026

Business environment,

‘Transformative’ weight loss market driving threefold growth in private dispensing

Over 16 million Mounjaro units dispensed in the year to March, say analysts

18 May 2026

whitworth-rotherham-summary

Property,

Sale of Whitworths’ 34 pharmacies concludes as Rotherham branch bought

Sale of Whitworths Chemists portfolio concludes after two and a half years

14 May 2026

boots-london-summary

People,

Currys chief Alex Baldock to head up Boots from the autumn

Baldock to take over from Anthony Hemmerdinger in leadership shake-up

14 May 2026

Services,

Boots launches £75 bone health scanning service

Boots pilots osteoporosis risk testing in 10 stores

12 May 2026

lindsey-fairbrother-1280

Contract,

CPE steps up search for East and North Midlands independent committee member

Lindsey Fairbrother resigned from the committee last month after selling Good Life Pharmacy in Hatton.

12 May 2026

blister-pack-summary

Legal,

Border operation stops £4.6m of illegal medicines entering UK

Sedatives, ED drugs and other products seized through global effort says MHRA

07 May 2026

computer-summary

Digital & technology,

NHSE warns against auto-nominations in updated EPS standards

IT providers 'must not develop functionality' to change nomination choices says NHSE

07 May 2026

Change privacy settings