NEWS BootS UK UNvEIlS ExcItINg NEW-looK StoRE


After many weeks working with customers and colleagues in the dungannon community, the Boots UK team proudly present their newly- refurbished store.


the store has been entirely refurbished over the last five weeks and is designed to meet the pharmacy, health and beauty needs of its customers by offering impressive new, improved dispensary and pharmacy consultation facilities.


With a real focus on the provision of pharmacy services and innovative healthcare solutions, the store team will offer new levels of support to local patients. Pharmacy services available include the minor ailment service, medicines management consultations, smoking cessation programme, care services provision and advice for customers living with long-term conditions such as diabetes and asthma.


‘the team here in dungannon have been an integral part of the community for many years,’ said claire o’Reilly, Store manager of Boots in dungannon. ‘With our


(L-r): Boots colleague from Dungannon, Megan; Claire O’Reilly, Store Manager of Boots in Dungannon; Marco Pagni, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc; Anne Higgins; Janine Barker; Andrew Caplan and Boots colleagues, Siobhan and Natasha.


modernised and improved store we really feel that we can make a greater difference to the community, customers and patients in dungannon not only from a pharmacy, healthcare and beauty


perspective, but also by offering community engagement and convenience on the high street like never before. there are many innovative aspects of this store that I am very excited about, including the


dISPENSINg ERRoR A WAKE-UP cAll foR PhARmAcIStS


An Antrim pharmacist has been handed down a four-month sentence suspended for two years after becoming the first to be prosecuted – and found guilty - over a dispensing error.


In february 2014, 45-year-old muckamore man, martin White, dispensed the wrong medication to a grandmother, who subsequently became ill within moments of taking them and later died.


It was on 6 february that year that Ethna Walsh (67) went into clear Pharmacy on Station Road in Antrim with her husband Joe to collect her prescription for her coPd medication, prednisolone.


In what the judge would later describe as a ‘single momentary lapse


of concentration’, however, instead of picking up prednisolone from the shelf, White picked up a box of propranolol.


on returning home, mrs Walsh was given some of the tablets by her husband and, within minutes, had difficulty breathing. her husband phoned immediately for an ambulance and mrs Walsh was taken to hospital where she later died.


White told the police that he ‘must have mistakenly picked up the propranolol instead of the prednisolone’, pointing out that the two boxes were ‘side by side on the shelf and have similar branding’.


While White claimed to have carried out the checks required under the pharmacy standard operation


procedures, further investigation revealed that the necessary accuracy checks were not carried out and an expert, who was brought in to examine the circumstances of what had happened, said that it was the lack of these checks that ultimately led to the error.


the expert told Antrim court, however, that he considered White to be guilty of ‘poor professional performance’ and not of ‘professional misconduct’.


during the trial, White’s mental health state came under examination after it was revealed that, at the time of the error, he had been attending his own gP due to feelings of low mood, tiredness and fatigue.


defending White, John Kearney qc told the trial that White was a man with previously unblemished character and said that the tragic consequences of his mistake had left him ‘destroyed with remorse’.


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new broad range of beauty and perfume brands, but in particular the integrated healthcare area, which I believe will help us meet the needs of our patients and customers today and in the future.’


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