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their symptoms, and receive a combination of advice, medication or referral to other services. “The Health Committee was told that one million appointments could be freed up by patients utilising the existing infrastructure of community pharmacists for their minor ailment. That could be a huge boon to our health service.

“Capacity to receive patients is one of the huge pressure points in our health service. People wait hours and even days in our Emergency Departments. Families wait months or years to find a GP that will take them on. If we can free up some of that capacity by empowering our community pharmacies, then I think that is something that has to be seriously considered.”