blueparrot
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Boils down to this for me, if people want to use a pharmacist as first port of call, fine it isn't new it's always happened, if we want allow a pharmicist to prescibe a few more medicines again fine.Medicine is a process of elimination - your GP (or practice physio who you’d most likely see for something like back pain) will likely prescribe pain relief anyway as a first port of call. Only if that didn’t help would they look at other potential causes. I’m sure the pharmacist would sign post people to their GPs if the symptoms persisted.
However if it's being used as an alternative to policies on retaining, recruiting, training more GPs , and solving those problems, then it won't work and is another misguided policy / gimmick from a government that won't take the decisions that will fix a failing health service.