Major pharmacy chain Boots has said it wants improved record sharing with GPs in order to be able to expand its diabetes management service.
Boots’ managing director Seb James said that cooperation between GPs, hospitals and local pharmacies would ‘take critical strain out of the NHS system’ and allow patients to get access to the services they need.
Speaking at the Digital Health Rewired Festival on 14 March, he also announced that Boots will be piloting a private diabetes screening service from May at seven stores across Manchester, London and Birmingham, which are cities with a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
