Pharmacies: The New NHS Frontline the Tonight programme...

[TiggerMe]

Think I'd previously said it was going to be Dispatches but it was a Tonight Show, Thursday 11th, 8.30pm ITV

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

Its very sad and actually a disgrace that the NHS can get away with paying less than the pharmacy pays for medicines. It won't be long before more and more are closing.

The one near me has barely anything on its shelves and the other one I use always has a queue half way down the street. Its at crisis point already and something needs to be done.

[TiggerMe in reply to Jaydee1507]

Yep, I've just finished watching it and it makes you anxious about each time the pharmacists price up meds and decide to strike them off their order books and send you elsewhere 😕

I'm glad I have now shamed my Surgery to dispense the correct brands as they refuse to issue correctly branded prescriptions as they surely can't pull the rug from under me??

I'm glad I have a couple of months in stock! 😅 That's the doomsday Eeyore in me

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to TiggerMe]

At my last meds review I did manage to hard negotiate getting 2 packs of Vencamil at each prescription, previously was just one and less than a months supply. Believe me that was an achievement.

[TiggerMe in reply to Jaydee1507]

Well done.. I requested that when they refused to dispense the correct brands and I had to travel 20 miles to collect!...I suggest this to everyone otherwise is just seems you are constantly a bit twitchy about what they are going to offer you next visit and the week it takes for them to get it right 😩

Thankfully I've held on to that and now walk the 1/2 mile to collect 😅

[TiggerMe in reply to Jaydee1507]

I've just had what was supposed to be a relaxing, recovery afternoon.... having watched The Flood, Question Time and the Pharmacy programme my body has been stressed for the last 3 hours.... should have gone for a walk like I usually do! Far more relaxing

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to TiggerMe]

I've been prepping for the predicted cold weather and placed an online food order so that I don't have to venture out into arctic temperatures. Brr!

[TiggerMe in reply to Jaydee1507]

Ha ha so like me! I was talking about the Suez Canal and oil prices earlier in the week... time to fill the tank?!

[Sparklingsunshine in reply to TiggerMe]

Question Time used to make my blood boil, haven't watched it in years, for sanity's sake. I am interested in politics and enjoy debating programmes but QT just made me shout at the tv like an old drunk lol.

[TiggerMe in reply to Sparklingsunshine]

You'd have loved this one it was an audience of fence sitters looking for inspiration as to which side they might vote for 😱