{"id":44685,"date":"2024-09-19T02:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/many-pharmacists-to-vote-on-cuts-to-opening-hours\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T02:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:29:50","slug":"many-pharmacists-to-vote-on-cuts-to-opening-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=44685","title":{"rendered":"Many pharmacists to vote on cuts to opening hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pharmacy First service, launched in January in England, extended the range of services chemists can provide, including treatment of sinusitis, earache and shingles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members were not being asked to pull out of the scheme, the NPA said, but a reduction in opening hours to 40 per week would affect it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another pharmacy group takes a different view on the current situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the Independent Pharmacies Association said: &#8220;Our members are deeply embedded in their local communities and for them the idea of prematurely punishing patients by any type of strike action is unconscionable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hannbeck said the focus should be on engaging with the new ministers &#8220;in as constructive a way as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health is a devolved issue and pharmacists in Wales and Northern Ireland are being surveyed separately, because of similar concerns about funding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there is no discussion about protest action in Scotland, where the NPA says financial support is more adequate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Department of Health official covering England said: &#8220;Pharmacies are key to making healthcare fit for the future as we shift the focus of the NHS out of hospitals and into the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will make better use of pharmacists\u2019 skills, including accelerating the rollout of independent prescribing to improve access to care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1e8755xv01o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pharmacy First service, launched in January in England, extended the range of services chemists can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2834,1135,2835,2045,1062],"class_list":["post-44685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-cuts","tag-hours","tag-opening","tag-pharmacists","tag-vote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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