About
We’re transforming community pharmacy by supporting the NHS and GPs. Using the latest technology, we have reduced the amount of time our highly skilled pharmacists spend managing routine prescriptions, which allows them to spend more time caring for patients.
By shifting the emphasis of our community pharmacies towards increasing patient services, we’re turning them into the destination of choice for patients seeking on-demand consultations and treatment for everyday health conditions.
Our friendly, pharmacy teams are based in the heart of their communities and have long standing relationships with their patients. We want to offer those communities access to much more than just dispensing and over-the-counter remedies. The technology that underpins our business allows our highly trained team to offer their patients the care that they need within their own communities.
Journey
1984
Our first community pharmacy was established in East Leeds by Barry Lestner. Later that same year, his son David qualified as a pharmacist and spent the next 30 years working alongside his father building the group across Yorkshire.
2011
The third generation of the family to qualify as a pharmacist, Jason Lestner joined the family firm to expand into new communities and increase the range of clinical services offered by the group.
2023
The Pharmacy Group was acquired by HubRx Ltd opening up the opportunity to further expand clinical services. By making use of state-of-the-art technology, the pharmacists’ time is freed up to offer a wider range of private and NHS services. The Group is rebranded as Pharmacy+Health to demonstrate the holistic approach to patient care offered by our pharmacies.
2023
Pharmacy+Health begins to transform branches and roll out new NHS and private service offerings.
Benefits
- Giving you the treatment you need, when you need it
- We’ve made more time to care for you
- A wider range of clinical care options on your doorstep
- Accessible treatment from highly trained professionals
- We’re making prescriptions simpler and more convenient
- Ensuring our pharmacy teams always have the time to listen and care for the communities they serve
Pharmacies
Our pharmacies are based in the heart of communities across Yorkshire. Our friendly and caring teams are ready to make it quicker, easier and more convenient to access clinical consultations for a wide range of common health conditions.
Our pharmacists are highly trained professionals, clinically qualified to treat a range of common health conditions.
If you’d like to find out more about your local pharmacy or the services our teams can offer, take a look at our branch pages or call in and see us.
HubRx
Our new approach is grounded in HubRx’s ground-breaking hub and spoke technology.
HubRx is a state-of-the-art centralised automated pharmacy. The facility combines advanced hardware with bespoke software in an automated pick to pack system which ensures industry-leading accuracy of patient prescription assembly, while allowing the community pharmacy staff to spend more time caring for their patients.
By taking more routine, regular prescriptions out of the pharmacy and into HubRx, highly trained pharmacists and their teams can free up time to offer a wider range of clinical services in the community.
Our Staff
Daniel Lee
Daniel is a qualified pharmacist who worked in his family’s independent pharmacy business in Leeds for five years before pioneering the UK online pharmacy industry. As a 2nd generation independent pharmacist, both Daniel’s family and the Lestner family built up a lasting working relationship as they served patients in the Leeds area. Daniel has spent his career transforming the pharmacy market in the UK. After leaving Pharmacy2U he returned to his independent pharmacy roots with the launch of HubRx before overseeing the acquisition and transformation of The Pharmacy Group into Pharmacy+Health in 2023.
Jason Lestner
Since graduating as a pharmacist, with 1st class honours, from Manchester University, Jason has been at the forefront of the growth of The Pharmacy Group, from eight to thirty-three branches, in just seven years. As a family business, together they created one of the leading, independent chains of community pharmacies in Yorkshire. Jason has a passion for patient care, the development and introduction of new clinical services as well as the use of technology to enhance the patient experience. As Chief Operating Officer of Pharmacy+Health, he will develop and drive the transformation of the community pharmacy branches that make up the group.
Dr Sarah Passmore
Starting her career within community pharmacy, Sarah has held key regulatory roles with Rowlands Pharmacy over a 11-year tenure which also saw her involved in a number of pharmacy automation projects. Sarah’s experience working in the community, along with her background in pharmacy regulation and knowledge of industry automation, means she’s ideally placed to help community pharmacists get the most from the HubRx technology.
Matthew Tollefson
Matt Tollefson has worked with Daniel Lee since the inception of HubRx Ltd in 2019. He officially joined the HubRx team as Chief Financial Officer in 2022 and will take on responsibility for financial matters within Pharmacy+Health Limited. Matt is both a Chartered Accountant & Chartered Corporate Financier, having spent time with EY, Mazars and specialist corporate finance firm Sentio Partners based in Leeds. Previously, Matt has also spent 5 years on the Board for Simon on the Streets, a local homeless charity as the Treasurer & Trustee, until he stepped down in 2022.
