70% of pharmacy owners surveyed said they did not think there is sufficient remuneration for the scheme.
While many believe the Pharmacy First scheme makes sense the pharmacists carrying it out says the funding does not cover the costs, ITV News Correspondent Rebecca Barry reports
Research conducted by The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies has been shared exclusively with ITV News. He told ITV News: "We've been bled dry of funding and we are at the point now where that funding doesn't support your input costs and I think we are in a very perilous place right now and the real people who will lose out from this is patients."Pharmacists can treat patients for sinusitis, sore throat, earache, infected insect bite, impetigo, shingles, and some urinary tract infections.
Pharmacies received an initial fixed payment of £2,000 each for providing the scheme, plus £15 per consultation and a monthly fixed payment of £1,000 if they do a minimum number of consultations.70.8% do not believe the remuneration for the service is sufficient, 20.8% say it’s too early to say and just 8.3% responded saying it was okay.
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