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Chemist And Druggist was carrying stories late last year that some pharmacies, given recent NHS funding reductions, were considering no longer providing free home deliveries of prescriptions: eg https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/lloydspharmacy-charge-new-patients-home-deliveries, https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/2-5-pharmacists-expect-stop-home-deliveries-after-cuts. So presumably it's the pharmacies that bear the cost, or at least possibly a substantial part of it. If so I also presume that they could exercise discretion to carry on doing so for those with special needs.


I suspect the area CCG would be the body to have a say and interest in this. I see, for example, that Wirral CCG issued an edict saying that their GP practices will no longer accept repeat prescription requests from pharmacies. And in the NHS online drug tariff the only mention I've found of delivery charges payable by NHS to pharmacies is of those for specified medical appliances.

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