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>Thanks Ewan, that was helpful and illuminating.
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>At the end of the day pharmacy is funded from the NHS pot
Is it ?, this is quite mis-leading, I thought SOME funds from the NHS do
indeed go to pharmacy. Rightly so, or Joe public would not have a
distributor of his essential medicines, and maybe would have to visit large
out of town Hypermarkets, which is not so easy for some.
But it must not be missed that they are independent businesses, and as such
are funded by Joe P visiting their store.
I do not know how many pharmacies would fold, due to the NHS removing
the funds and how much the Pharmacy relies on the scrip fulfilment visit to
stimulate OTC sales and sales of other incidental products.
nor how many people visit pharmacy to purchase product without the
stimulation of filling a scrip.
In all the NHS gets pharmacy services (read distribution of medicine) fairly
cheaply.
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>appears there are still the same old problems of data and network
>standards to address.
>There just isn't a simple straightforward (or cheap) answer.
No there is not, but a contribution of over 2 million UKP to develop an open
system available for all and not for profit seems like a good starting
point.
Well done to Gehe, for th investment and forsight. it is good to see the
other parties getting on board and contributing.
PS I am not involved or associated with Gehe or AAH or Pharmed in any way at
all.
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>Dr Ian Trimble http://www.sherwood.demon.co.uk/
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