Community Pharmacies

What Community Pharmacies does

Community Pharmacies is a UK private company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chester, that develops and operates health-centre-based pharmacies in partnership with GP Practices. The firm is described as the UK's number one developer in this niche, indicating an integrated model in which pharmacy dispensaries are co-located within NHS primary care sites rather than operated as standalone high-street retail pharmacies.

The company's business model rests on long-tail B2B partnerships with GP practices and NHS-aligned health centres across the United Kingdom, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees supporting multi-site dispensing operations. Revenue mechanics are not disclosed in the available source material, but the operating logic aligns with NHS prescription reimbursement plus retail pharmacy front-of-store income typical of UK community pharmacy operators.

The supplied source material is materially thin: the company website returned only a browser-check page, and no financial figures, customer logos, technology stack details, leadership roster, funding history, or product portfolio were captured. The description above is therefore limited to firmographic and positioning facts that could be evidenced.

Name

Community Pharmacies

Website

https://communitypharmacies.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Community Pharmacies is a UK private company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chester that develops and operates health-centre-based pharmacies in partnership with GP Practices across the United Kingdom.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Pharmacy Services

NAICS

Pharmacies and Drug Retailers (456110), Offices of Physicians (62111)

SIC

Retail-Drug Stores And Proprietary Stores (5912)

akta.pro primary industry

Retail & Community Pharmacies (Chain/Independent) (HLAFALAA)

Keywords

• Retail pharmacy services
• Health centre pharmacies
• GP practice partnerships
• Community pharmacy development
• NHS pharmacy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Chester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

Community Pharmacies develops and operates health centre-based pharmacies in partnership with GP Practices across the UK. The company focuses on co-locating pharmacy services within health centres to provide integrated pharmaceutical care alongside primary medical services. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chester, the firm employs 501-1,000 staff.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Health Centre Pharmacy Services

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Rowlands Pharmacy: UK-wide community pharmacy chain with a mix of high-street and health-centre sites. Closely comparable as a multi-site operator delivering NHS pharmacy and commissioned services.
• Day Lewis Pharmacy: UK community-pharmacy group operating several hundred branches including co-located and health-centre sites. Comparable as a private UK community-pharmacy chain delivering NHS services.
• Cohens Chemist: Independent UK community-pharmacy chain with a portfolio of branches, including co-located sites. Comparable as a private, multi-site UK community-pharmacy operator.
• LloydsPharmacy: Major UK high-street and co-located pharmacy chain, historically strong in health-centre and supermarket co-location formats. Closely comparable as a multi-site UK community pharmacy with NHS service delivery.
• Well Pharmacy: One of the UK's largest independent community-pharmacy chains, operating a multi-site estate with growing NHS-commissioned services. Directly comparable as a UK community-pharmacy operator competing for the same dispensing and services revenue.

Broad incumbents

• Boots UK (Walgreens Boots Alliance): Dominant UK retail pharmacy operator with thousands of stores and a deep NHS services portfolio. Comparable as a UK community-pharmacy incumbent, but with a much broader retail footprint and parent-company scale.
• Superdrug Pharmacy: UK health-and-beauty retailer with a chain of in-store pharmacies offering NHS and private services. Comparable as a UK high-street pharmacy operator with a broader retail portfolio.
• Tesco Pharmacy: In-store pharmacy departments of a UK supermarket chain, offering dispensing and selected NHS services. Comparable as a co-located retail-pharmacy channel but with vastly greater grocery footfall and capital base.
• Asda Pharmacy: In-store pharmacy departments of a UK supermarket chain delivering NHS services. Comparable in co-location format and NHS service delivery, but operates at grocery-retail scale.

Emerging players

• Pharmacy2U: UK online pharmacy delivering NHS repeat prescriptions and selected services. Comparable as a UK pharmacy competitor targeting the same NHS dispensing and services revenue, but through a digital rather than physical co-located model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/commpharmukltd
• Facebookfacebook.com/350572945045898
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/community-pharmacies-uk-ltd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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