About the CCA
The Company Chemists' Association
The Company Chemists' Association provides a forum for the large businesses engaged in community pharmacy to work together to help create an environment where pharmacy can flourish and providers compete in a fair and equitable way. We aim to:
- Represent our members
- Empower our members to understand the changing policy environment; and
- Influence that policy environment.
Today, the CCA has nine companies in membership. They are: Boots, The Co-operative Pharmacy, Lloydspharmacy, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Wm Morrison Supermarkets, Asda, Rowlands Pharmacy and Superdrug. Between them, our members own over 6,400 pharmacies representing almost 50% of the pharmacies in the United Kingdom.
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Pharmacy bodies call for removal of “Three Year Rule”
14.12.2009
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), and the national pharmacy organisations representing community pharmacy in Great Britain and Northern Ireland have called upon the Department of Health (DoH) to remove the “three year rule,” whereby EU qualified pharmacists cannot act as the responsible pharmacist unless the pharmacy premises have been registered with the RPSGB for more than three years.
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