High street pharmacy Boots is to close its store in the Bede Precinct, Jarrow, in mid-March as part of a nationwide store closure programme.
It is one of 300 planned closures across the UK which will reduce the total number of stores from 2,200 to 1,900.
The North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board says it will work closely with the pharmacy to ensure that all measures have been taken to ensure patients will not be adversely affected by this closure.
This will include:
- Patients and care homes will be informed
- The pharmacy will put arrangements in place for the transfer/disposal of excess stock on the day of closure
- The pharmacy will ensure all owings are dispensed for patients and no prescriptions where full stock is not available are dispensed.
- The pharmacy will ensure that all patients with prescriptions awaiting collection are contacted and if necessary deliver the medication to patient’s home
- The pharmacy will return any prescriptions remaining in the pharmacy uncollected to the prescribing practice.
Boots UK Ltd will cease to provide pharmaceutical services on 16th March 2024 and will be removed from the pharmaceutical list for the area of South Tyneside Health and Wellbeing Board with effect from that date.
