Pharmacy adopts NHS branding
Greater use of the NHS logo is encouraged in the pharmacy vision
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Associated Chemists (Wicker) in Sheffield has installed NHS branding on the fascia of its late-night pharmacy.
Martin Bennett, managing director of Associated Chemists, told The Journal
that the NHS logo replaced a green cross logo, at a cost of £77. “We
took our authority to do this from the pharmacy vision document published
last year which said that community pharmacies should be identified as
an integral part of the NHS and should use the NHS logo,” he said.
The pharmacy was open for two hours on Christmas Day and dispensed around
90 items. Mr Bennett said that although
prescription numbers were around the same as the year before, sales of
non-prescription medicines had been much higher, particularly on Christmas
Eve and Boxing Day.
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