A lot of community pharmacies are providing deliveries. It's the big boys i.e. Pharmacy 2U / Boots / Well etc. that take the profit from the dispensing fees but don't provide any of the community pharmacy services that are causing the harm especially now the pharmacies have had their contracts changed and reduced income but required to provide the same levels of service.
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A lot of community pharmacies are providing deliveries. It's the big boys i.e. Pharmacy 2U / Boots / Well etc. that take the profit from the dispensing fees but don't provide any of the community pharmacy services that are causing the harm especially now the pharmacies have had their contracts changed and reduced income but required to provide the same levels of service.
vickster
Legendary Member
Communications
I'd like my mobile phone (or indeed landline) to be sorted if I have an issue so I can keep in touch with pretty technophobe elderly parentsI would hope they are minimising the numbers to technical staff and a skeleton staff
The system will come under enormous strain even with community groups or others such as the army delivering prescriptions.
Please, please do not, unless you feel the risks to yourself are astronomically high (that may be the case).
You can get someone else to pick up a controlled drug on your behalf showing ID. It's routine in pharmacy.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Telecomms is an essential utility.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
That's about a mile from me. Basically it's specific community that regularly comes into conflict with the police.
It also doesn't help that there's an intra-community drugs war going on following BBC's Hometown programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p07bn33z/hometown-a-killing
This was one dealer vs. another, the next two night's it's been setting cars alight. Nine were torched yesterday.
I can't see anything that covers this either. For the odd one who won't hardly see anyone then maybe it's within the spirit of the law
As you say If it got to the point of loads just walking in one place with no hope or will to keep to 2m and the police feel like moving them on then they will.
New powers will make it even more clear to officers at the moment they can use what they have. They may have to careful even more soon or find they are held for 48 hours for testing and if PHE want it quarantined for up to 28 days.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Will do.
I've used the same privately owned pharmacy for years.
I suspect it may have changed hands a couple of times, but is still privately owned as far as I can tell.
Oh, might be better to go back to plan A and collect it.
The journey could fairly be described as necessary, it's very short, and I will combine it with the food shopping.
If I was the pharmacy I would be considering extra precautions, such as limiting numbers in the shop, or serving them at the door.
Last time I was in, half the floor area had been cordoned off from the public by moving a couple of the counters.
I think further clarification will probably say leaving your village/town/area/city which I'd say is already implicit. So regrettably unless you live next to a bird spot or it's in your city then it's a no.
This was a common one in Italy. Oh I'm just walking the dog on the beach and oh sorry officer I seem to have accidentally walked all the way to the next town. Wow yes I never spotted the road check over there, honest it wasn't why i went on the cycle track or beach. I accidentally walked and walked and called in to see my auntie or a friend and got lost of the time. Forget the 40,000 fines reported. This went on a lot and the authorities cottoned on to it.
Slack service is not helping either a few my way are bad with even the basics of customer service.
Only got to look at the plies of meds ready to collect that behind the counter. To see many can't cope with the capacity before all this started.
If they have change of staying open they are going to need to up the capacity. How most can do it is the big question more robotic dispensing maybe ?
Have to say the coop online pharmacy has been spot on.
I think that will be only option before everyone starts to fall in love with idea.
It's going to hell in a handcart and a separate thread from Coronavirus. A lot of the issues in pharmacy are intimately related to social care and other things going on elsewhere - it's just we don't talk about them.
You may not have to worry for much longer as I think many community pharmacies will go under. I expect staff to walk out or call in sick (or actually be sick on a grand scale) when precautions aren't taken, closure like conditions are induced as they have been in Italy and people think screw it, I'm not doing this for minimum wage with all this stress to die from coronavirus. It's right that hospitals, gps and care homes are prioritised ahead of pharmacies in terms of testing kits, but I would be very surprised if government didn't pretty much totally forget about community pharmacy.
You can free up capacity (enough to cope) in community pharmacy imho if you stop selling GSLs and have systems to streamline dispensing/bagging/giving out without the usual fun and games of distractions. A pandemic may allow this. A minority of the public with be very grumpy about this, everyone else will be fine. A lot of pharmacies in the big chains have very mismatched skill sets though and this is a big problem.
After this morning I was wondering if the penny has dropped.
Local tesco was busy they look to have been quick about it and the floor markings have been joined with delivery crates at the tills so you have no choice but keep your distance with staff. Spotted a few people in gloves and 2 with masks.
One of them was at the till buying his cigs.
A guy behind me who clearly had no idea what this distance idea is. Clearly thought as he waring gloves he'd be fine.
Town was almost empty. Bank staff stood waiting outside only letting so many in people in the queuing all looked to be ok with the 2m rule.
Did not fancy trying my luck and Morrison so went to M&S (boy our food bills are going up) Mostly empty got what I need stood behind the tape at the tills. Came home
PPE and mass use really is not a good idea. On the way home spotted one postman sat having a sandwich still wearing gloves.
A delivery driver at the lights mask and gloves. Who once stopped removed his gloves to use his touch screen PDA.
Local tesco was busy they look to have been quick about it and the floor markings have been joined with delivery crates at the tills so you have no choice but keep your distance with staff. Spotted a few people in gloves and 2 with masks.
One of them was at the till buying his cigs.
A guy behind me who clearly had no idea what this distance idea is. Clearly thought as he waring gloves he'd be fine.
Town was almost empty. Bank staff stood waiting outside only letting so many in people in the queuing all looked to be ok with the 2m rule.
Did not fancy trying my luck and Morrison so went to M&S (boy our food bills are going up) Mostly empty got what I need stood behind the tape at the tills. Came home
PPE and mass use really is not a good idea. On the way home spotted one postman sat having a sandwich still wearing gloves.
A delivery driver at the lights mask and gloves. Who once stopped removed his gloves to use his touch screen PDA.
