LloydsPharmaoy has been awarded a ￡17m contract to run pharmacy services in all of Scotland's 15 prisons.The contract runs until April 2022,with an option to extend for a further year.It is the first time a private firm has controlled the pharmacy service to prisons in Scotland.A spokesperson for NHS National Services Scotland confirmed to The Pharmaceutical Journal on 2 May 2019 that LloydsPharmaoy was the sole tender for the contract,although there had been a number of suppliers who expressed an interest when the contract details were first announced in February 2019.LloydsPharmaoy will be expected to deliver a full professional pharmacy service-including supplies and dispensing,with a particular focus on the treatment of prisoners with hepatitis C-the spokesperson said.
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