GPs Demand Action To Protect Services In Scotland’s Rural Communities

Doctors warned that rural GP services are increasingly under threat as new pharmacies are introduced into small rural communities in Scotland, without local consultation into the consequences for patient services in the area. The warning comes at the start of Rural Health Week (1 - 6 October 2007). GPs in some of the most isolated communities in Scotland offer pharmacy-type dispensing services and are known as ‘dispensing doctors’. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Primary Care on October 5th, 2007