Boots UK’s priority is to support the NHS, ensure access to a pharmacy for every community, and look after our amazing and selfless colleagues as they serve on the front line to support our patients and customers. 

The locations where people need Boots have changed fundamentally in the last few weeks. For example; airport stores and central London stores near offices have very few people visiting them, while local community pharmacies are seeing more than double the number of people requiring prescriptions. We need to make sure that we have enough colleagues playing their vital role where it’s currently most needed and that we can send home those colleagues who are working in stores that are not busy. To achieve this, we are temporarily closing a small number of stores that are very quiet at this time.

As with other front-line healthcare workers in the NHS, we have seen higher absence recently, and have therefore asked our pharmacy, healthcare, and store management colleagues working in quieter stores to help our teams in nearby busy pharmacies, or, where this is either not needed or not possible, to stay safe at home.

There are over 2,400 Boots stores across the UK; we will temporarily close around 60 stores by next Wednesday 15 April 2020. The closing stores are typically in city centre or shopping centre locations and are usually within a few minutes’ walk to the next closest Boots pharmacy. Customers will be able locate their nearest stores by visiting Boots.com.

A spokesperson for Boots UK said:

“All over the country, we are working tirelessly to support the NHS and to provide our customers with the advice, healthcare, medicine and products that they need. We are committed to being there for the people that need us and we will not leave a community without a pharmacy. We would like to thank our colleagues for their work and our customers for their support and generosity.”

Our senior pharmacy team, including our Chief Pharmacist, Marc Donovan, also issue daily advice vlogs which can be seen here.

Further detail

From Thursday evening, 25 London stores will temporarily close, with a further 35 UK wide stores due to close on the evening of Tuesday 14th April. All customers, and any prescription services, will be directed to the nearest alternative Boots, which in most cases is a short walk away. The full list of closing stores, together with the nearest alternative store can be found below.

Any customers who have existing deliveries or prescriptions to collect at any of the affected stores, will be contacted over the course of the next few days. We will update them on the best way to manage their prescriptions moving forward, including details of the nearest alternative Boots pharmacy. Customers can also find out further information about store locations and opening times on Boots.com.

Stores that will close from Friday 10^th April 2020

Closing store	Nearest store
London Stratford City	Stratford
Covent Garden Long Acre	Piccadilly Circus
London WhiteCty SC Ariel	Shepherds Bush
London 193 Oxford St	Sedley Place
London Piccadilly	Piccadilly Circus
London 508-520 Oxford St	Sedley Place
London 16 Tottenhm Ct Rd	120 Tottenham Court Rd
London 100 Oxford Street	Sedley Place
London Canary Whf Jubile	Canada Place , canary Wharf
London Moorgate Hghst	Bishopsgate
London Cannon Street	Gracechurch St
London 302 Regent St	Sedley Place
London Monument	Gracechurch St
London Fenchurch Street	Gracechurch St
London Farringdon Road	Holborn
London Strand temp store	Strand
London Paternoster Sq	Cheapside
London New Bridge St	Fleet st
London Canary Whf Cbt Sq	Canada Place , canary Wharf
London Houndsditch	Gracechurch St
London 211Tottenhm Ct Rd	120 Tottenham Court Rd
London High Holborn	Holborn
London Victoria Crdnl Pl	Victoria St
London One New Change SC	Cheapside
London Liverpool St Stn	Bishopsgate

 

Stores that will close from Wednesday 15^th April 2020

Closing store	Nearest store
Manchester Trafford Ctr	Trafford Retail Park
Leeds Trinity	Leeds Merry centre
Gateshead Metro Centre	Team Valley
Edinburgh 101Princes St	Shandwick Place
Liverpool Clayton Sq Sc	Liverpool Church St
Dartford Bluewater Park	Crayford
Bristol Cribbs Causeway	Bradley stoke
London Charing Cross Stn	Strand
London Victoria Place	Victoria Station
London Kings Cross Stn	St Pancras
Lond Kings Cross Station	St Pancras
Birm New Street Stn	Birmingham Bull ring
Liverpool Lime St Stn	Liverpool LDN Road
Newcastle Central Stn	Newcastle Blackett St
Reading Station Ovr Brdg	Reading station
Edinburgh Waverly St Stn	Shandwick Place
London Marylebone Stn	Baker st
London Bridge Station	Hays Galleria
Newcastle Airport AS	Westerhope
Glasgow Airport AS	Dumbarton
Birm Airport BS	Birmingham
Leeds Bradford AS	Rawdon
Aberdeen Airport Airs Dp	Garthdee
Heathrow T2 BS arrivals	T2 Airsides
Heathrow T3 AS	Heathrow T5
Heathrow T3 BS depart	Heathrow T5
Heathrow T4 BS arrivals	HeathrowT5
Heathrow T4 AS	Heathrow T5
Gatwick South AS lower	Gatwick South
Newry Buttercrane Sc	Newry
Caerphilly Castle Court	Llantrisant
Ballymena Fairhill Sc	Ballymena
Stockport Peel Sc	Stockport Merseyway
Newry The Quays Sc	Newry
Belfast Great Nrthn Mall	Donegal place