{"id":206110,"date":"2025-10-17T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206110\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:17:08","slug":"cornish-pharmacies-warn-funding-pressures-are-unsustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206110\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish pharmacies warn funding pressures are &#8216;unsustainable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Kaye, a pharmacist in Newquay who represents the National Pharmacy Association said: &#8220;Up to 63% of our members may be at risk of closing over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People will do loads of things to keep them going &#8211; borrow money from family members, re-mortgage, cash in pensions. Which is a really difficult situation to be in and it can be perilous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called on the government to stabilise the current situation with the cost of dispensing prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The government&#8217;s own independent economic review recognized a \u00a32.6bn shortfall in community pharmacy funding so what we really need is a roadmap to make sure that bridge is gapped over the coming years,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kaye, a pharmacist in Newquay who represents the National Pharmacy Association said: &#8220;Up to 63% of our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-206110","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\/206110","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=206110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}