9 January 2025, 14:19

By Ashley Cohen

Pharmacies like mine up and down the country have been left fighting to survive after a decade of cuts.

They are vital to our health and our communities but are on their knees.

Pharmacies check and dispense millions of prescriptions every year. They give health advice and treatment to countless people for whom they are an essential source of health care, right on their doorsteps.

Like my colleagues up and down the country, I am immensely proud to be part of the NHS family and I rely on about 90-95% of my funding from my contract with the health service.

But I despair at a situation which has left pharmacies facing real terms cuts of 40% in the past decade and a broken funding formula which means the NHS does not even cover the cost of........

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