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Patients ‘aggressive’ and ‘spitting at staff’ over drug shortages, says new report

 
• By James Halliwell

Rising medicine shortages are leading to pharmacy staff being attacked by aggressive patients frustrated by problems with their prescriptions, a new report by Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has claimed.

"I regularly have staff in tears because of the sheer pressure of it all”
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James Halliwell joined C+D as editor-in-chief in February 2024. A business journalist for the last 15 years, he’s looking forward to developing the bond between C+D and its readers and bringing them more of what they want to read, in the evolving ways they want to read it.

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