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i wud certainly charge extra, because although the money the pharmacy makes from these is just redirected money (e.g. from dispensing), its an additional job for the locum, the dispensing volume hasnt gone down, one would still have to do the same amount of prescriptions as before if not more. The contractors recognise this by offering their pharmacy managers and other employed pharmacists bonuses for doing MURs.

as for being part of the core services, well if i were to work as an employ id have to negotiate so doin MUR and providin other services was taken into account when making a wage offer to me. Previously contractors treatest pharmacist like dispensin machines that could be easly replaced and the wage represented this, but now maybe they will reconsider as pharmacist appear to be more like HCPs.