McKesson Ireland has today announced a new charity partnership with ISPCC to help support the children’s charity with the provision of Childline services for children and young people.   Listening to, empowe...

Following a two-year partnership with Aware as their official Charity Partner, McKesson Ireland have expressed a massive thank you for all the fundraising efforts from their employees across the four businesses of United Drug, Lloyds Pharmacy, TCP Homecare and Median Healthcare. 

Sepsis can affect anybody, at any age; but it is more likely to occur in older people or very young children because their immune systems are weaker. The HSE defines Sepsis as a serious complication of an in...

Menopause Supplements Category The Menopause category has experienced huge growth in the last two years with a striking increase in public awareness. With the unfortunate shortage of HRT medicines, Menopause...

As of July, we are delighted to announce that we have made the switch from printing business cards to using the new Lunar Smart Card. Using NFC Technology, our new smart card can trigger our business details and contact information when tapped against a smartphone.

The United Drug Insights team saw Sunscreen sales double from 2020 to 2021. These sales grew across all sunscreen subcategories from 2020 to 2021, with the biggest increase in adult sunscreen. Adult sunscree...

This June a group of 12 friends AKA Wally’s Warriors, are taking on the ultimate Irish relay running non-stop the length of Ireland! The course runs from Malin Head, Donegal to Mizen Head, Cork that’s some 5...

We were delighted to host our second Webinar of 2022, on the topic of substance misuse in the community and the role pharmacists can play in spotting the signs and offering support to their patients.   Denis...

We were delighted to host our first Ostomy Webinar of 2022, around Stoma and helping pharmacists to feel comfortable speaking to ostomy patients. The webinar for pharmacists, provided lived experience from a...

In the Spring edition of our Pharma Le Chéile brochure, our insights focused on antihistamines and allergy season. Overall, the market growth for antihistamines is up 19% in 2021 versus 2020. Generic lines d...

In ongoing efforts to meet the 2030 carbon neutral goal, United Drug has signed up Energia to supply our sites with 100% renewable energy for the next two years. Energia is Ireland’s greenest electricity sup...

As part of our efforts to become carbon Neutral by 2030, United Drug has installed 6 electric car chargers at our sites in Citywest, and Baldonell. The chargers are available for employee use, with 12 employ...