Pharmacists have said they are at breaking point as the Government pushes ahead with plans to increase their workload while hundreds more chemists are set to close AlannahFrancis1 reports
“There’s a limit to how much I can actually ask my teams to do,” Mr Dev said. “I have to think of their wellbeing, their health and sometimes it becomes really difficult to have that ability to just come in and see your pharmacist informally. We need to be actually having almost like a reserved appointment structure.”
“There’s a shortfall of £1.1bn in the funding because the funding has not been keeping up with inflation,” she said. “We’re in a situation where we’reMs Hannbeck said the vast majority of pharmacists do not want to limit patients’ accessibility to care but sometimes things were out of their control. Ms Hannbeck and Mr Dev said the prescriptions handled by any Boots pharmacies that close will fall on the remaining pharmacies to fulfil.
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