{"id":222989,"date":"2025-10-24T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:02:07","slug":"rainham-residents-share-concerns-over-lack-of-local-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222989\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainham residents share concerns over lack of local pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents say it is &#8220;total rubbish&#8221; that their town is well served by pharmacies, after the closure of their only local branch left 40,000 people without easy access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jhoots, based in Rainham Shopping Precinct in Kent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjw75xnz571o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shut in August <\/a>following months of disruption. Locals say the empty unit now blocks new providers from opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vivian Wheeler, 80, said: &#8220;We had three pharmacies here, and now we haven&#8217;t got any. There&#8217;s so many older people here. How do they ever get their prescriptions? It&#8217;s dreadful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS Kent and Medway said it was following national regulations and guidance, and pointed to six alternative pharmacies within a 2-mile (3.2km) radius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents say it is &#8220;total rubbish&#8221; that their town is well served by pharmacies, after the closure of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-222989","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\/222989","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=222989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}