{"id":568975,"date":"2026-05-06T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568975\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:10:08","slug":"medicine-availability-in-jersey-poorest-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568975\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine availability in Jersey &#8216;poorest for a long time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaw continued: &#8220;It&#8217;s not to say that medicines disappear and we can&#8217;t get them forever, but there&#8217;s significant delays and, at any one time, there are thousands of different lines that we can&#8217;t get hold of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaw said because the pharmacy had to pay for its products in advance, it was causing a lot of issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s only when we get a prescription and we hand it in at the end of the month that we get paid a few months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to worry about the cost of our medicine, which is rising and also availability and local prescribing habits as well. Sometimes we&#8217;re finding quite a tight line between getting the money and ordering.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaw continued: &#8220;It&#8217;s not to say that medicines disappear and we can&#8217;t get them forever, but there&#8217;s significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568975","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=568975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}