{"id":20,"date":"2011-09-14T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/?p=20"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:05:31","slug":"audio-pharmacies-competing-with-nhs-dispensaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2011\/09\/14\/audio-pharmacies-competing-with-nhs-dispensaries\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Pharmacies competing with NHS dispensaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

You And Yours reports<\/a>\u00a0today on private pharmacies using the Freedom of Information Act to identify the most profitable regions in Scotland to set up shop – leading to the closure of practice-based dispensaries.<\/p>\n

Sadly there’s no information online other than the full broadcast, but there’s some background on BBC News Scotland<\/a>:<\/p>\n

About 60 surgeries face losing income from dispensing drugs after pharmacists used the Freedom of Information Act to find out how much they were making.<\/p>\n

They found that about half of the estimated 130 rural surgeries with their own dispensaries had turnovers of hundreds of thousands of pounds.<\/p>\n

Now pharmacists are applying to set up shops in lucrative areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a campaign site with the memorable acronym SODS: Save Our Dispensing Surgeries<\/a>, who have also been using the FOI Act:<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act we now have had access to the annual net income for 2010\/2011 received by each retail community pharmacy in Scotland.\u00a0\u00a0At first count there are around 1300.<\/p>\n

It makes interesting reading! We are now looking further into this as some of the sums listed are eye-wateringly large. It is now understandable why pharmacies can change hands for hundreds of thousands of pounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re interested in data around prescriptions, check out the Prescriptions Pricing Division, which has a very useful disclosure log of previous FOI requests<\/a> and an online form for making your own FOI request<\/a> (the email address on the FOI page<\/a> does not work)<\/p>\n

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