Community healthcare

As an organisation focused on pharmacy-led health and beauty, promoting and supporting a range of initiatives that improve the health and well-being of the communities in which we serve is a natural position for us to take.

Saving lives

When a heart attack strikes, survival can often depend on speed of response. In France, we recently set up a training session for members of our Alphega Pharmacy network focusing on how to react in case of a heart attack and how to use a defibrillator when the victim’s condition demands it. Following the session, many of our independent pharmacist customers invested in defibrillators and are publicising this potentially life-saving service within their local communities.

 

Giving for good health

Health-related donations made by our Italian wholesale business during 2007 included around £7,000 to community-based charity “Malati del Tigullio”, a further £7,000 to the surgical department at the hospital in Lavagna, and £9,000 to the “association of neuroblastoma” in conjunction with the Gaslini hospital in Genoa.

“Promoting and supporting a range of initiatives that improve the health and well-being of the community”