With over 3,300 UK pharmacies planning to cut hours, and eight closing each week, have you noticed that it’s harder to find a pharmacy in your area? How would fewer pharmacies or limited hours impact you and your community?
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00:00Collecting prescriptions is a very important thing and I think the older generation depend on collecting prescriptions and
00:07pharmacies closing down is it can affect a lot of different type of people but mostly old people because a lot of old people
00:13They have dossier trays that they need to collect and different prescriptions lesser hours can be you know constricting sometimes because some people work
00:19You know a morning 9 to 5 or you know
00:21Sometimes to 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning if you're in a factory and you need to you need to get there before a time
00:25But you can't cuz you're tired so I can understand
00:27You know why shorter hours are almost impossible to work with obviously there's a lot of like services that deliver
00:35Like I was I know we're like with
00:38grandparents and stuff
00:40It's quite easy now to get it delivered to your house and stuff like that
00:43They need to be open at the same time as the doctors for the evening surgeries and the early morning surgeries
00:49It's not the right thing that should be happening like the government should be helping to fund
00:54Pharmacies if they can't keep themselves open because the general public need them to survive