Is it getting harder to find a pharmacy Liverpool?

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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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00:00I think just overall like if you just lessen the amount of health care

00:05available for people it's not gonna exactly help people's health is it

00:09really. The nearest pharmacy to me where I get me repeat prescriptions just

00:13literally behind us in Walton and they're actually only open Monday to

00:19Friday and closed for lunch as well. I think it'll affect everybody I mean

00:23because wasn't it last year or something we were instructed and directed go to

00:28your pharmacist instead of going to your GP. So where are people going to go

00:33now? It could be the small pharmacy might be shooting themselves in the foot I

00:38think a little bit with that if they reduce their business at the end you

00:43know at the end of the day even though the pharmacies it's all about getting

00:46people in and getting custom and making money. There's some people at my nan

00:51isn't very mobile so if she's having to travel two miles to the closest

00:56pharmacy it just makes her life a lot harder.

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