Pharmacies across England can currently treat walk-in patients for a selection of ailments including earaches, sore throats and sinusitis, but a large majority of people want more treatments available at their local chemist.
Pharmacists also want to be able to provide more services, which they say would fit with the government’s NHS reform plan to get more healthcare closer to where people live, but they say an increase in their stagnant funding agreement is essential.
