Morning-after pill access could be hit if pharmacists support 'work-to-rule' action amid a row over funding
Morning-after pill access could be hit if pharmacists support 'work-to-rule' action amid a row over funding
However, pharmacies in support could reduce their opening hours or potentially provide fewer services, which could also include withdrawal of the provision of free medication deliveries. Action could start before Christmas if the majority of those balloted across England, Northern Ireland and Wales vote in favour.
The organisation, which represents 6,000 community pharmacies across the UK, said this is the first time that it has balloted its members on work-to-rule actions. “We are putting the NHS leaders on notice that we cannot guarantee community pharmacy services will remain safe into the future if current depressed funding, pharmacy closures and increasing workload trends continue.”by a decade of real terms cuts that has slashed 40 per cent from their funding. Pharmacies are routinely required to dispense NHS medicines at a loss, 1,500 have been forced to close in the past decade, while others have had to cut hours to try and make ends meet.
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