{"id":31843,"date":"2025-07-30T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31843\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:35:07","slug":"its-horrible-telling-customers-their-medicine-isnt-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31843\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s horrible telling customers their medicine isn’t available’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvinder said Pharmacy First, external<\/a> – the initiative that refers the public to community pharmacies for minor illnesses and repeat medicines before attending GP practices – had been a positive initiative.<\/p>\n

He said the scheme brought in more funds and had helped take pressure away from GPs.<\/p>\n

However, Harvinder is worried the initiative may be “too little too late”.<\/p>\n

“We’ve expressed our concern, we’ve petitioned and seen no results,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Our regulators have acknowledged that there is an issue but they have never given us a solution.”<\/p>\n

Rebecca Dickenson, clinical pharmacy lead for the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire integrated care board (ICB) – which oversees the city and county’s pharmacies – said: “Any abuse of pharmacy staff is unacceptable under any circumstances.<\/p>\n

“Our community pharmacies will do everything they possibly can to support patients, but sometimes aren’t able to due to circumstances beyond their control.<\/p>\n

“Medicine shortages are caused by national and sometimes global issues. Some medicines may not be available due to problems with manufacturing, transport, high demand, or issues sourcing the ingredients.”<\/p>\n

She advised customers to only order medicines they need in good time, and try other pharmacies if they could not get it from their nominated chemist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harvinder said Pharmacy First, external – the initiative that refers the public to community pharmacies for minor illnesses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-31843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}