Darcy Jimenez

C+D • 28th November 2025

Exclusive: Allied went into Jhoots deal ‘blind’, says CEO

Earlier this month, Allied Pharmacies announced that it had “taken over the management of 60 Jhoots pharmacies” across England, with the “majority” of the locations “temporarily closed”. Now, the company’s chief executive has revealed in an exclusive interview that it went into the deal “blind” and “not knowing how many” of the branches it will be able to get back up and running.

C+D • 27th November 2025

Exclusive: Unpaid Jhoots locum fees surpass £1m

The PDA has told C+D that its locum members are owed some £1.1m by Jhoots pharmacies and demanded “clarity” on who is “liable for the massive total debt owed to pharmacists”.

C+D • 21st November 2025

Exclusive: Allied to settle unpaid Jhoots staff wages ‘in full’ amid takeover

Allied Pharmacies has told C+D that it will cover the wages staff are owed by their former employer following the company’s recent purchase of 60 Jhoots branches.

C+D • 9th October 2025

Exclusive: Almost 750 weight loss jab concerns raised with GPhC this year

The pharmacy regulator has received 746 concerns relating to weight management since this January, C+D can exclusively reveal.

C+D • 17th November 2025

Revealed: Everything we know about action against Jhoots

Find out everything we know so far about Jhoots contract removals, company disqualifications, enforcement action, administrators and unpaid wages…

C+D • 29th October 2025

Exclusive: Unpaid locums take legal action against Jhoots pharmacies

Jhoots Pharmacy businesses owned by Sarbjit Jhooty and Nilam Patel owe locum pharmacists a total of almost £1 million in unpaid fees, the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has said.

C+D • 10th September 2025

Pharmacies enlist campaign help amid weight loss ad warnings

Pharmacies are enlisting external PR and marketing support to manage campaigns around their weight loss services, amid soaring demand for weight loss jabs and warnings from industry regulators about “inappropriate” marketing of the drugs.

The Guardian • 27th November 2019

Thousands of girl gang members are trapped in a cycle of violence and abuse

Kim was 13 years old when she started selling guns for a teenage boy she met at a party. “Being female, it’s a lot easier for me to sell the guns,” she says. “Because I was very young, I was the one that would do the drop-offs. It was quite fun at the time. I felt a bit invincible.”

Mic • 7th December 2020

Inside the TikTok trend shaming corporations for destroying perfectly good stuff

Every day, hundreds of thousands of perfectly usable products are destroyed by retail corporations around the world. Food that has reached its expiration date is sometimes rendered inedible with bleach to deter "dumpster divers"; items in dented boxes are disposed of, rather than given away, to prevent employees from damaging products deliberately; designer goods are ripped to shreds so they can’t be resold for cheaper elsewhere.

Cosmopolitan • 29th January 2021

The young women choosing to go without contraception

Kate* had been with her boyfriend for two years when she became pregnant. The couple hadn’t been using birth control - but not because they were hoping for a baby. At 23, Kate didn’t want to conceive at all. She felt so uncomfortable using the contraceptive methods available to her that she had purposefully been going without, preferring to risk getting pregnant instead.

The Guardian • 29th September 2020

'Let down': calls for Gibraltar's Covid-delayed abortion vote to take place

Earlier this year, pro-choice activists in Gibraltar were hopeful that their territory’s abortion laws – the harshest in Europe – could soon be overturned. Terminations are banned in the tiny British territory, even in the cases of rape, incest, or foetal abnormality where the foetus will not survive. Abortions are punishable by life imprisonment, except when the woman’s life is in danger.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 16th September 2021

Billionaires are betting on anti-ageing research, but can ageing really be cured?

Searching for the key to immortality may sound like the preoccupation of a superhero-movie villain, but a growing number of biotech companies – and billionaires with cash to spare – are investing in research that could prevent and reverse the ageing process in humans.

Vice • 2nd April 2020

This Disturbing TikTok 'POV' Trend Is All About Domestic Abuse

One video begins with a teenager cheerfully applying blush and putting on jewellery – before cutting to her staring despondently past the camera, the makeup on her face now simulating bruises and a black eye. The caption: "You go on a date with your abusive boyfriend and it doesn’t end well."

Pharmaceutical Technology • 19th April 2021

Ivermectin and Covid-19: how a cheap antiparasitic became political

In the year since the Covid-19 pandemic began, various unconventional treatments have been hailed as potential cures for the respiratory virus that has so far claimed over three million lives worldwide.

Metro • 30th January 2021

How lockdown is pushing women towards an alcohol crisis, with mums at the front

Two empty Dolmio sauce jars was all it took for the relief to kick in. Spotting them in her recycling bin as she added her empties from the week, Anna, 47, can still recall how the sight of them made her feel. ‘I remember being so grateful they were in there and not just beer and wine bottles clanking around,’ explains the mum-of-two.

Vice • 13th May 2020

Guys Are Acting Out Abusive Behaviour on TikTok – and Girls Are Tuning In

While all of God's creations can be found on TikTok, one species is better recognised than most: the e-boy. Characterised by floppy hair, necklaces, and 90s T-shirts layered over long sleeves, they usually lip-sync and wink their way through songs. Among them, a new trend is emerging. Searching "crazy boyfriend" or "psycho ex" on TikTok reveals a plethora of posts where e-boys scowl, shout or grin menacingly at the camera in what are known on the app as POV (point-of-view) videos.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 1st December 2021

Lethal injection: can pharma kill the death penalty?

In October, Oklahoma prison inmate John Marion Grant was executed by a lethal injection. Strapped to a gurney, Grant convulsed and vomited – highly unusual for the procedure – after being given midazolam, a sedative and the first of three drugs that are usually administered for lethal injection. Grant was declared unconscious around 15 minutes after receiving the first injection and died roughly six minutes after that.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 13th July 2021

Covid-19 vaccines and periods: what do we know so far?

More than three billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have now been administered worldwide – and, as with all pharmaceutical products, side effects have been observed. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to rare cases of serious blood clots, while the UK recently added rare heart inflammation to the lists of side effects for Pfizer and Moderna’s jabs.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 22nd October 2021

Pharma’s reliance on horseshoe crabs is threatening the species

Horseshoe crabs are a species of marine arthropod that have existed for around 450 million years – but for over four decades, the creatures have also played a crucial role in human health.

Metro • 20th August 2020

'I've never experienced anything so hard': Lockdown's impact on chronic pain sufferers

Lynsey Searle has lived with fibromyalgia, a condition causing widespread pain and extreme tiredness, for around five years. The counsellor, 42, has regular massages and chiropractic treatment but fears this option may soon be taken away. East Lancashire, where she lives, remains under strict local lockdown after a surge in coronavirus cases.