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Pharmacy2U - Costs To Nhs
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These prescription online free deliver services state "No. In fact, using our service costs the NHS less than using traditional methods*
*Because we dispense from one central pharmacy facility, this means there are less location-based repayment fees for the NHS to patients"
But surely it would be cheaper for a patient to pick up medicines from his local pharmacy without additional costs of post/packaging that NHS have to bear ?
*Because we dispense from one central pharmacy facility, this means there are less location-based repayment fees for the NHS to patients"
But surely it would be cheaper for a patient to pick up medicines from his local pharmacy without additional costs of post/packaging that NHS have to bear ?
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Many prescriptions dispensed by local pharmacies (such as my catheter bags) have to be ordered in each time that they receive a prescription, so there are delivery costs from the warehouse they come from. A firm that operates its own large warehouse won't face such costs.
Pharmacy2U's arguments, together with the RPS's counter-arguments, are summarised here:
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Local pharmacies (unsurprisingly) detest Pharmacy2U. The pharmacy down the road from me has a notice attached to their counter which tells people that the CQC found Pharmacy2U to be 'unsafe and ineffective' in 2017
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and points out that many patients were left without their medicines for three weeks at the end of 2015
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(However they don't point out that Pharmacy2U seems to have improved a great deal since those days: https:/
Pharmacy2U's arguments, together with the RPS's counter-arguments, are summarised here:
https:/
Local pharmacies (unsurprisingly) detest Pharmacy2U. The pharmacy down the road from me has a notice attached to their counter which tells people that the CQC found Pharmacy2U to be 'unsafe and ineffective' in 2017
https:/
and points out that many patients were left without their medicines for three weeks at the end of 2015
https:/
(However they don't point out that Pharmacy2U seems to have improved a great deal since those days: https:/
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