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PM Rishi Sunak visits Bestway HSC in Stoke-on-Trent

PM Rishi Sunak visits Bestway HSC in Stoke-on-Trent
Drew Forsyth
Andy Marino
By Andy MarinoJul 02, 2024
Andy Marino
Andy was born in London just in time to see England win the World Cup, and much later began his career in academia, gaining a PhD in American Literature and lecturing at several universities, including Maryland and Gothenburg in Sweden, and pursuing a sideline in sheep-farming before moving back to London and becoming a literary agent and TV documentary-maker (working for various broadcasters and making series such as the BBC’s Monsoon Railway, set in Bengal). He has written several biographies, including the Second World War story American Pimpernel, and became the official biographer of India’s Prime Minister (then Chief Minister of Gujarat) publishing Narendra Modi, a Political Biography (Harper Collins). Andy joined Asian Media Group in 2018, his first “proper” job, and has been there ever since, believing that, while trade journalism might not save the world, it might just save journalism.
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With the 2024 General Election campaign coming to its climax, the Prime Minister was welcomed at the Bestway Healthcare Service Centre (HSC) depot in Stoke-on-Trent yesterday (1) along with Lord Zameer Choudrey and Haider Choudrey.

Keen to see first-hand the results of the significant investment which has been poured into the multi-channel site by Bestway Group, which now delivers to over 760 Well Pharmacies and over 5000 independent pharmacies every day, - as well as housing Bestway's online digital pharmacy, online OTC shop, centralised script fulfilment centre and and stocking around 10m packs of medicine in stock.

Hader Choudrey Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

The Prime Minister was impressed by the levels of automation and innovation that have made the HSC a successful operating model. Following a tour of the site, colleagues were invited to join the PM in a Q&A session. When probed about funding plans for pharmacy, Mr Sunak spoke about his own experience of the value of community pharmacy, coming from a family of pharmacists and spending much of his youth helping the family with prescription deliveries, before expressing his support for the expansion of the Pharmacy First programme.

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