Community pharmacy plays a vital role in our health service and that is why Ministers have recently announced a set of reforms to improve the service, making better use of pharmacists' valuable clinical skills, and allocating taxpayers' money more efficiently.
Following recent growth, 40 per cent of pharmacies are now in clusters of three or more meaning that two-fifths of pharmacies are within 10 minutes' walk of 2 or more other pharmacies. The community pharmacy budget has also gone up by 40 per cent over the last decade.
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