Pharmacy introduces annual delivery fee: ‘We should have done it years ago’

A Northern Irish pharmacy chain has called some of its patients up to seven times to give them advance warning of the introduction of prescription delivery fees.    

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The chain first introduced a £72 annual prescription fee in June • Source: Shutterstock

Gordons Chemist has been forced to scrap free prescription delivery across its 55 branches in Northern Ireland due to underfunding and rising costs, it told C+D.

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