On 12/11/2012 14:08, Roland Perry wrote:
In message o.uk, at
22:37:50 on Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Dave Liquorice
remarked:
... (and I wonder how far away the nearest Pharmacy is).

Not so much the "nearest phramacy". What is more important is pharmacy
that can get the drugs you require. There are two in the town one part of
the Surgery/Cottage Hospital and one chemist type. Niether the surgerys
or town phramacy can get what I need.

I've never encountered that problem before. Sometimes a pharmacy didn't
have the item in stock, but would always be able to call it in from a
supplier by midday the following day.

My wife has encountered similar problems. She is a Community Psychiatric
Nurse and has had a few patients who are very sensitive to medication -
any change sends them off and they soon end up being sectioned. On a
number of occassions she has had to source medications urgently as the
local pharmacy has decided to stop stocking them or has become unable to
get them and none of the others in the area have it either.

SteveW