LONDON: Britain's pharmacists will soon be able to prescribe drugs that were previously only authorised by doctors, under government plans unveiled on Tuesday (May 9) to ease pressure on the state-run National Health Service. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative party was battered in local polls
LONDON: Britain's pharmacists will soon be able to prescribe drugs that were previously only authorised by doctors, under government plans unveiled on Tuesday to ease pressure on the state-run National Health Service.
The NHS however remains plagued by strikes as health workers protest over wages that have failed to keep pace with rampant inflation, despite their vital role during the Covid pandemic and beyond. "One of my five priorities is cutting waiting lists. And today's announcement is getting on with that," Sunak, whose mother was a pharmacist, said on a visit to his home city of Southampton.
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