Get our daily email briefing straight to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailMore than 1,300 local chemists have appealed to pharmacist’s son Rishi Sunak to save them from closure. A letter to the Chancellor, whose mother was a pharmacist, pleads with him to urgently look again at pharmacy funding. Meanwhile, a Tory former Health Minister accused “Treasury bean counters” of refusing to give pharmacies the help they need. (Image: TIM ANDERSON)She wrote: “Our local chemists, some of the quiet heroes of the NHS, are being abandoned to financial ruin through consistent underfunding and the costs of staying open during coronavirus. Without a fresh cash injection from NHS England, EY predicts many pharmacies will be unable to survive - limiting health services in local areas, and particularly in remote rural communities.

Source: Daily Mirror September 13, 2020 14:09 UTC