{"id":519418,"date":"2026-04-08T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519418\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:27:07","slug":"long-queues-after-wems-other-pharmacy-shuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519418\/","title":{"rendered":"Long queues after Wem&#8217;s other pharmacy shuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stan Barry waited for almost an hour, but found his prescription had not arrived and was told to return another day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got roads being dug up, we&#8217;ve got power cables going in, potholes being filled up, you&#8217;ve got to move from one side of the town to the other,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wem resident said he was not trying to criticise staff who &#8220;work extremely hard trying to find the stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All I can look at is the end point that to stand there for an hour and wait and then be told &#8216;come back&#8217; I just don&#8217;t think is on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Janet Bromley stated another chemist was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not the oldest person in Wem, and I know a lot who got off the bus by the Co-op wouldn&#8217;t be able to walk down to the other pharmacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Barry waited for almost an hour, but found his prescription had not arrived and was told to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519418","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\/519418","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=519418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}