Pharmacy2U has today relaunched its veterinary care platform, as Pharmacy2U Pet Health, becoming the only online pharmacy to offer pet services alongside ‘human’ health services via an app that customers can access on the go.

Pharmacy2U, which has 1.8 million customers in England, says its website and app now gives people the ability to look after the health, wellbeing and prescriptions of their whole family using a combined basket feature.

The move comes amid a major probe with the CMA investigating prescription pricing in the veterinary sector, with a final decision due to be announced in early spring.

The watchdog has rung the alarm on a lack of price transparency, high costs and ineffective competition within the industry – finding average vet prices rose 63% between 2016 and 2023, well above the rate of inflation.