Pharmacies across England are struggling to serve patients due to severe financial losses and medicine shortages, meaning patients face waits of several weeks to receive critical medication.
People seeking medical advice from community pharmacists are also waiting longer as staff spend hours trying to hunt down prescription drugs.
A Community Pharmacy England survey of 2,900 pharmacies and 900 team members, found 76 per cent of pharmacies report that patients are being impacted by the pressures facing their pharmacy business.
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Meanwhile, 83 per cent of pharmacies are unable to respond to patients’ phone calls and emails as promptly as usual due to the pressures they are facing, and staff in nearly two in five pharmacies (39 per cent) are unable to spend as much time supporting and advising patients as they would like.
