Labours Tax Raid Disaster18 Mar 2025 12:50
“Thousands of pharmacies are preparing to reduce opening hours and cut free home prescription deliveries as Rachel Reeves’s tax raid bites.
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has told its 6,000 member pharmacies in England to start scaling back services from April 1, when a wave of new costs come in.
The NPA said almost all of its pharmacies were considering reducing opening hours, while 93pc plan to cut back on free home deliveries of medicines.
Charities warned that the changes would harm patients and the elderly, with potentially “tragic consequences”.
The changes are being made as pharmacies face a £310m increase in costs as a result of the Chancellor’s decision to raise National Insurance for employers, increase the minimum wage and push through business rate changes. The changes take effect from April.
Nick Kaye, the NPA’s chairman, said: “This is not a step any one of us wants to take, but we have been left with little choice because in just two weeks new business costs will be hitting local NHS pharmacies across the country.”
Who voted for these morons ? Not me………