{"id":363383,"date":"2026-01-10T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363383\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:15:07","slug":"jhoots-pharmacy-has-collapsed-into-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363383\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhoots pharmacy has collapsed into administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Bosses at the struggling chemist had reportedly failed to keep in touch for 10 weeks prior to the walkout in the Oxfordshire town&#8217;s Bury Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fed-up staff shut up shop for the last time and left a notice on the shop window saying: &#8220;It is really hard trying to run a pharmacy without a pharmacist, or manager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As a Trustpilot review says, \u2018like a pub with no beer\u2019.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since then, the nationwide pharmacy has struggled to stap open in other areas of the country including the Isle of Wight, North Devon and Bridport in Dorset.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: Oxfordshire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25393696.pharmacy-administration-3m-debt-sold-family-member\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pharmacy in administration with \u00a33m debt sold to family member<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And now Ian James and Rajnesh Mittal of FRP Advisory have been appointed as joint administrators for the struggling business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The chemist has no more branches in Oxfordshire, but does have ones in Reading, Slough and Swindon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jhoots posted a pre-tax loss of \u00a35,028,184 in the year ending December 2023, the most recent accounts on Companies House reveal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksfreepress.co.uk\/news\/25749907.labour-minister-no-idea-farmers-protesting-oxford\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Labour minister has &#8216;no idea&#8217; why farmers are protesting in Oxford<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last year, Allied Pharmacies acquired 129 branches of Jhoots to its portfolio.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Health minister Stephen Kinnock said in an urgent emergency parliamentary debate in October that it is \u201ccompletely and utterly unacceptable if a business such as Jhoots is not paying its staff\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cUnfortunately, there are some (pharmacies) that fall short of the standards that we expect, and sadly, the services provided by Jhoots are falling well below the mark,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Trade union, the Pharmacy Defence Association, estimated that more than \u00a3870,000 in unpaid locum fees was owed by Jhoots businesses to its members.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Before the Allied takeover, there were about 150 Jhoots pharmacies across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bosses at the struggling chemist had reportedly failed to keep in touch for 10 weeks prior to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-363383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}