Asif Aziz OBE

Asif Aziz is Director of Healthcare for Boots UK and has been responsible for the delivery of Boots UK’s healthcare strategy since April 2021.

Since joining Boots as a newly qualified pharmacist, Asif has held a number of senior leadership and director roles over 26 years within Boots and Walgreens Boots Alliance.

He led the Boots Care Services and Hospital outpatient dispensaries business including widening the digital offering to Care Homes through implementation of eMAR solutions. Asif has vast experience in healthcare retail through a number of senior leadership roles including Stores Director and Managing Director of Boots Travel.

Asif has held leadership roles within the Boots Support Office structure as Director of Pharmacy Services and Operations, leading key transformation programmes within the pharmacy business.

During the height of the pandemic, Asif was COVID-19 Testing Programme Director where he led the successful delivery of Boots UK’s COVID-19 testing programme for NHS workers.

Asif was awarded an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List for services to pharmacy, especially for his role in the Boots rollout of testing for COVID-19.