NCSO - What a mess!

It's not fair that pharmacists and their staff are spending long hours sourcing drugs that are in limited supply...its even worse when the result of this is financial loss for contractors...
 
I know of several contractors who, following the DOH guidance, managed to obtain medication from their wholesalers at very high costs last month; only to find on the last day of the month - no NCSO provision, merely a price concession far below what the contractors had paid...Some contractors were out of pocket by considerable sums!
 
I'm really at a loss here...why should community pharmacies be the victim in this - losing huge sums of money in attempts to provide care to patients?
 
In these days of financial hardship, this is simply too much to swallow!
 
Something must be done to prevent shortages of supply leading to huge losses for community pharmacy...changes in NCSO cannot come too quickly!

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