Boots lines up more GP services as second in-store surgery opens its doors to patients

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7498 p457
19 April 2008

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Boots lines up more GP services as second in-store surgery opens its doors to patients

In-store GP surgery

In-store GP surgeries are seen as good for business

Boots is developing plans to include more GP services in its stores. The Journal has learnt that the company has a number of projects in the pipeline, including planned in-store GP surgeries in Brighton and Birmingham.

The news follows the opening this week of Boots’s second GP branch surgery, inside a Boots store in Halifax.

Tricia Kennerley, healthcare director at Boots, said: “Being able to put GPs in stores is absolutely central to our wanting to develop the role of pharmacy and the provision of primary healthcare services. So [working] more closely with GPs is the right thing for patients and is obviously good for business.”

She added. “We have identified a number of stores that have got spare space, and those are the areas that we’ll be looking to see whether there are other opportunities to move GPs into the space if there’s a [local] need.”

She told The Journal that GP services would operate from a Boots store in Brighton from May 2008 and a larger enterprise would start in Birmingham some time in July 2008.