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To: Health Minister Lord Howe
Save Your Local Pharmacy, 1000 - 3000 will close under new proposals.
Please do not reduce the funding for pharmacies by £170 million as this will cut the number of pharmacies in England. The cuts will increase the workload on already overloaded GPs, Walk-in and Urgent Care Centres and A&E departments.
What we need is a National Minor Ailment Scheme (Pharmacy First Scheme) to reduce the work load on GPs, Walk-in and Urgent Care Centres and A&E departments and reduce the cost of minor ailments to the country.
Why is this important?
If you cut funding, the number of pharmacy will be reduced by between 1000 - 3000, this will in turn transfer their workload onto the remaining pharmacies, GP, Walk-in and Urgent Care Centres and A&E departments.The cuts will affect all pharmacies and damage the pharmacy network and all other frontline services providing patient care. It would benefit all frontline services if a National Minor Ailment Scheme (Pharmacy First Scheme) were introduced to move patients with minor ailments from GPs, Walk-in and Urgent Care Centres and A&E departments into pharmacies and provides cost savings far greater than £170 million.
