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30 Aug 2018
A Shropshire family business has celebrated its golden anniversary with customers.
Lunts Pharmacy, which has two stores in Shrewsbury as well as others in Pontesbury and Craven Arms, celebrated 50 years in business in July.
To mark the occasion managing director Martin Lunt gave away a spa day for two at the Albrighton Hall Hotel to a customer at each store.
He said: “We want to be an important...
19 Jul 2018
A group of family run pharmacies in Shropshire are celebrating their 50th anniversary date this month.
Martin Lunt, managing director of Lunts Pharmacies which has two stores in Shrewsbury as well as stores in Craven Arms and Pontesbury, has been looking through the archives to see how the business has changed.
The company was launched by his parents Ken and Joan Lunt at 21 Castle Street,...
22 Mar 2018
Proposals to save the NHS millions by limiting items available on prescription have been hailed as worthwhile by a Shropshire pharmacist.
Martin Lunt, who owns Lunts Pharmacies with two branches in Shrewsbury and branches in Pontesbury and Craven Arms, said he hoped the NHS England consultation would be brought into effect.
It would mean Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) who oversee GP...
05 Jan 2018
A new way of ordering repeat prescriptions which has been in place in Telford for a year is now being rolled out across the rest of Shropshire - and one pharmacy boss is urging people to leave plenty of time to get their order.
Ian Swindell, pharmacist at Lunts Pharmacies in Shrewsbury, Craven Arms and Pontesbury, said the new Prescription Ordering Direct service can vary from surgery to surgery...
30 Nov 2017
Residents across Shropshire are being urged to try and reduce the number of emergency calls made to Shropdoc this Christmas by making sure they have ordered any prescriptions for medicine by the end of this week.
Every year Shropdoc receives thousands of calls over the festive period from residents requiring medical assistance.
But, Ian Swindell, pharmacist for Lunts Pharmacies which has premises...
06 Jul 2015
A pharmacist in Shropshire has warned a government plan to display how much prescription medicines cost the taxpayer could put lives at risk.
John Gentle, superintendent pharmacist at The Pharmacy @ Caxton in Oswestry, said the plans announced last week could have unintended consequences.
He said: “I sympathise with the government’s aims here and agree that there is a lot of medicine being wasted...
23 Feb 2015
A pharmacy in north Shropshire has joined the digital age and is offering customers the chance to track their medication with a new app.
Customers of the Pharmacy @ Caxton in Oswald Road, Oswestry, can set reminders to take tablets and reminders for when prescriptions need to be re-ordered.
The 21st century pharmacy already has customers signed up to the Pill Manager app after they adopted the...
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