{"id":118100,"date":"2025-09-06T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118100\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:15:14","slug":"skint-pharmacist-says-industry-is-creaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118100\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Skint&#8217; pharmacist says industry is creaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hewitson believes pharmacies are a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; in many communities where patients struggle to get an appointment to see their GP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says: &#8220;Pharmacies increasingly are struggling to cover the cost of doing business, whether that&#8217;s buying medicines on behalf of the NHS for their patients, whether that&#8217;s paying their staff or vital repairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His pharmacy has a leaky roof that he cannot afford to have fixed because he says he is prioritising paying his staff and paying for medicine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In some cases, pharmacies are having to &#8220;subsidise the NHS and the supply of medicines to individual patients,&#8221; Mr Hewitson claims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Community Pharmacy England survey found that 73% of pharmacy team members reported supply issues are putting patients health at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Hewitson believes pharmacies are a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; in many communities where patients struggle to get an appointment to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-118100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}