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READ MORE: Pharmacists to be 投票（する）d over 活動／戦闘まっただ中に基金ing 列／漕ぐ／騒動

By EMILY STEARN, SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE

Published: 13:45 BST, 19 October 2024 | Updated: 14:24 BST, 19 October 2024

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High street pharmacies are on the 'brink' of 崩壊（する）, a damning 報告（する）／憶測 into the? '批判的な' 圧力s teams 直面する支配するd today.?

The England-wide 調査（する） on staffing and 意気込み／士気 in the 部門 has 設立する 9 in 10 team members are struggling to 対処する with workload 需要・要求するs.?

Seven in 10 pharmacy owners also 定期的に報告（する）／憶測 staff 不足s, with a tenth 軍隊d to の近くに一時的に, によれば the 調査する by 産業団体／死体 Community Pharmacy England (CPE).??

One owner told MailOnline how he's been so 圧倒するd he hasn't been able to take a day off in over three years.

Even then, the last break he had was a 選び出す／独身 day for the funeral of his 23-year-old son.?

Others has been 強襲，強姦d, with 反対するs thrown at them or even punched まっただ中に rising levels of 患者侵略, with 出来事/事件s logged almost every week.?

One owner, Anil Sharma (pictured), told MailOnline he?has been 強襲，強姦d, punched and? had 反対するs thrown at him まっただ中に rising levels of 患者侵略, with 出来事/事件s logged almost every week

The England-wide 調査（する） on staffing and 意気込み／士気 in the 部門 has 設立する nine in ten team members are struggling to 対処する with workload 需要・要求するs?

The scathing 報告（する）／憶測 comes after it was 明らかにする／漏らすd number of pharmacies in England is now at the lowest level in almost 20 years, with an 普通の／平均（する） of seven of these 決定的な services の近くにing every week.

There are 恐れるs workplace 圧力s and 侵略 from 失望させるd 患者s could 追加する to this 傾向, 誘発するing a 支配影響 as remaining pharmacies have to 選ぶ up the slack.??

産業 leaders labelled the findings '深く，強烈に関心ing' and called on the 政府 to 緊急に演説（する）／住所 the 部門's 全労働人口不足s and '批判的な基金ing 強制s'.?

The Pharmacy 圧力s 調査する for England, 投票d more than 900 owners ― 代表するing more than 6,100 individual 前提s in England ― 同様に? as 2,000 staff.

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More than three ４半期/4分の1s 認める the 圧力s of their work had 影響する／感情d their mental health.?

More than eight in 10 (86 per cent) said staff 不足s had resulted in longer waiting times for 患者s getting 医薬 or advice.?

Almost two thirds (62 per cent) also 報告（する）／憶測d a 全労働人口不足（高） meant they had also been 軍隊d to 減ずる the services they 申し込む／申し出.?

'Community pharmacy staffing 圧力s and 意気込み／士気 have reached an かつてない low. This is 押し進めるing 商売／仕事s to the brink,' the 報告（する）／憶測結論するd.?

One 匿名の／不明の owner, who has run his pharmacy in Rotherham for seven years, told MailOnline he has only taken one day off this year ― his mother's funeral earlier this month.?

Tragically, the 59-year-old's last day off was in 2021?― the day of his 23-year-old son's funeral.?

On both occasions, he said, he couldn't afford to even take bereavement leave, unable to 支払う／賃金 the high 率s 需要・要求するd by locums.?

He told MailOnline: 'I just want something 猛烈に to change. I 港／避難所’t even had time to grieve for my son. I’m just on a constant treadmill.?

'I would just love one good night’s sleep, I’d really love that.?

He 追加するd: 'I’ve had to bounce our costs around on different credit cards to stay afloat. I’ve got � �25,000 価値（がある） of 負債.?

'にもかかわらず things 存在 as bad as they are now, there seems to be no 調印する of it getting any better.

Anil Sharma (pictured), who runs eight pharmacies across Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Suffolk, said his teams experience this 乱用 almost every week, but rarely is it 報告（する）／憶測d to the police

'I have thought about 終結 but I want to be in a position where my 貸付金s were paid off before I did that.'

Pharmacy owners are 現在／一般に存在投票（する）d by the 国家の Pharmacy 協会 (NPA) over 可能性のある 'work-to-支配する' 活動／戦闘まっただ中に a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 over 基金ing with the 政府.

選挙運動者s say the 財政上の problems started with the new 国家の契約 in 2015 ― which 効果的に削減（する） pharmacies' NHS income 意味ありげに and has not been adjusted for インフレーション or spiralling staff and 燃料 expenses.?

The NPA is not a 貿易（する） union, so any 結果 of the 投票（する） would be （a）忠告の／（n）警報.?

But if 支援するd, the NPA says the 活動／戦闘 ― 始める，決める to start before Christmas?― could see pharmacies 開始 for shorter hours or 潜在的に供給するより小数の services such as 緊急 contraception or 身を引くing 解放する／自由な配達／演説／出産s for 医薬.?

Yet the 匿名の／不明の owner told MailOnline he could not afford to 参加する any 活動／戦闘.?

Now pharmacists to be 投票（する）d over 'work-to-支配する' 活動／戦闘まっただ中に a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 over 基金ing just several weeks after GPs

'I can't get by as it is, I can't my income 落ちる in any any その上の,' he said.?

'Pharmacies are way 負かす／撃墜する the つつく／ペックing order. We're not even considered important.'???

Another pharmacy owner, 一方／合間, told how he has been 強襲，強姦d, punched and ev en had 医薬瓶／封じ込めるs thrown at him まっただ中に rising levels of 患者侵略.?

Anil Sharma, who runs eight pharmacies across Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and? Suffolk, said his teams experience? 乱用 almost every week.

He told MailOnline: 'We’ve had two 出来事/事件s in the past fortnight alone.

'Mostly it’s people annoyed that their 医薬 is not ready.?

'薬／医学s aren’t ready for so many 推論する／理由s ― you can’t get a 麻薬 or you’re a week behind with dispensing prescriptions because you’ve had so many of your staff members leave.

'But people don’t care if they’re ill. They want their 医薬. We've stopped とじ込み／提出するing 出来事/事件s to the police.

He explained this was 予定 to both the paperwork 伴う／関わるd and a 欠如（する） of results.??

'We don't have time and we don't take 患者s to 法廷，裁判所 because they're 患者s, they're ill.'?

記録，記録的な／記録する levels of staff 不足s, that have seen him unable to 新採用する trained staff for over 18 months, have also seen Mr Sharma and his wife have to work ‘100 hours a week each, いつかs 夜通し’ to 確実にする the 商売／仕事 keeps going.?

He said: 'The pharmacy 全労働人口 has been decimated to an 前例のない level.

NHS 商売／仕事 Services 当局 data published in October shows in England just 11,414 community pharmacies remained in the 2022/23 財政上の year

'I’ve been in pharmacy for 25 years and I’ve never known 圧力 like this. It’s a perfect 嵐／襲撃する. It’s a 国家のスキャンダル.

'There have been weeks where we've worked through the night to try and keep up to date with the dispensing, so people were waiting too long.

'最終的に it's our 商売／仕事. We put our life 貯金 into these 商売／仕事s and if we can't keep them afloat, and all the 患者s leave us, then we have no 商売／仕事 left.

'It's had a 大規模な衝撃 on my life.'

答える／応じるing to the 調査する results, Janet Morrison, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of CPE, said: 'We are 深く，強烈に関心d about staff wellbeing and the 消極的な衝撃 that the 現在の圧力s are having on both the mental health of the community pharmacy 全労働人口 and on 患者 care.?

'Community pharmacy teams are working 非，不，無-stop to 保護する their 患者s and 地元の communities, but a 全労働人口 that is 落ちるing over does not support the 配達／演説／出産 of 質患者 care.?

'If pharmacy staff are overworked, understaffed, 悩ますd and 直面するing 重要な強調する／ストレス, it negatively 影響する／感情s their ability to 会合，会う患者 needs.

'If we want to make 十分な use of the 臨床の技術s of community pharmacists and their teams, we must 演説（する）／住所 these 全労働人口不足s, 同様に as the 批判的な基金ing 強制s and capacity 問題／発行するs, in the 部門.'

Boots has の近くにd 支店s 一団となって／一緒に in 最近の months, while LloydsPharmacy has shut its doors 完全に. Pictured:?a former LloydsPharmacy 蓄える／店 in Bracknell, Berkshire

Paul Rees, 大統領 of the NPA also told this website: 'This 報告（する）／憶測 rightly 最高潮の場面s the 重要な workload and 全労働人口 challenges 直面するing community pharmacy 予定 to the 衝撃 of a １０年間 of underfunding.

'Pharmacies are having to manage 重要な higher workloads 予定 to 増加するd 需要・要求する at the same time as navigating 削減（する）s to 基金ing and difficulties in 新採用するing.

'This is 押し進めるing many to the brink, with a 記録，記録的な／記録する number of pharmacies の近くにing just in the last year and others taking 激烈な steps to stay open.

'To 演説（する）／住所 this, the 政府 must 供給する community pharmacy with a new 基金ing 取引，協定 that 停止（させる）s the 終結s and 許すs pharmacies to 対処する with 増加するs in 需要・要求する.'

In August, the NPA also 警告するd the number of pharmacies in England was now at the lowest level in almost 20 years, with an 普通の／平均（する） of seven の近くにing every week.

More than 1,500 have shut their doors since 2015, leaving just 10,054 open.?

At this 率, numbers could 落ちる below 10,000 for the first time since 2005, when there were 9,872, it said.?

Boots has の近くにd 支店s 一団となって／一緒に in 最近の months, while LloydsPharmacy has shut its doors 完全に.?

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