How integrated is your pharmacy within your PCN
We are actively ignored and excluded by our PCN who make any contact as difficult and fruitless as possible. To be fair to them, they treat the public in the same way, being completely invisible to anyone but GP surgeries and communicating with no one else... when I did find a way in it was short lived and obviously done to tick their box saying contact made with "Pharmacy"
They dont employ Pharmacists locally, doing all their Pharmacist work remotely via a Tele Pharmacy organisation who have no interest in helping me here.
A local Pharmacist who happened to be near two GPs discussing PCNs overheard them saying that "if they think we are spending any money in Pharmacy services they can get lost" which sums up their attitude nicely.
