Pharmacy2U
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| Industry | Online pharmacy |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Daniel Lee and Julian Harrison |
| Headquarters | Leeds |
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Area served
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Prescriptions (UK), Retail Products (Global) |
| Revenue | £17.5MM (March 2015) |
| -£860,000 (Loss) | |
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Number of employees
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100 |
| Website | [1] |
Pharmacy2U is an online mail-order pharmacy located in the UK. The company was founded by pharmacist Daniel Lee in 1999. Pharmacy2U has been involved in piloting the electronic transfer of prescriptions in the UK.
Founder Daniel Lee worked for his family's pharmacy business until 1999, when he decided to form his own company. His father owned a chain of chemists shops in Leeds. He thought of the idea to found an Internet mail-order pharmacy in 1997 after a report by the NHS about its initiative to deliver prescriptions to patients more efficiently. Although at the time it was not legal to sell prescriptions by mail in the UK, Lee sold his apartment for £100,000 in order to put the money into the creation of Pharmacy2u.co.uk, basing his shipping out of his father's pharmacy business. The site went live in November 1999, and used a courier service in order to provide a legal, safer service for the website's customers. Julian Harrison from Andersen Consulting became a director in 2000.
Pharmacy2U became the UK's first online pharmacy. The British Medical Association expressed concern over the innovation, and the National Pharmaceutical Association resisted the move towards filling prescriptions online in 1999. UK health organizations persistently pushed back against online ordering in 1999 due to concerns over change in the medical industry's infrastructure. A few days after they first opened an inspection team arrived in order to scrutinize their business practices and structure. The result of the inspection was a positive recommendation to stay open, which lead to an amendment of the 1968 Medicines Act as well as the codes of ethics of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in order to allow for the establishment of Internet-based pharmacies. Pharmacy2U became the first online pharmacy to be approved by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
The company is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as an Internet Pharmacy.
In August 2015, it was one of the first pharmacies to be approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
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