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Pharmacies face return of paper prescriptions amid 'global IT outages'

 
• By Kate Bowie

Pharmacies have been hit by a global IT outage, affecting access to prescriptions and medicine deliveries, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has warned.

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"We're urgently raising this issue with NHS England"
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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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