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As you can see the poll as aimed at retail, so we are talking about retail pharmacy.
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I was up extremely early this morning to take my girlfriend to the airport - sorry for the doziness :wink:
The kinds of people I was thinking of were the likes of young mums, and where I'd worked, whihc had a lot higher elderly population than the average, we had a lot of family members coming in asking for the pharmacist's advice or guidance on things they could do to help a relative they were looking after.
In that pharmacy though, the pharmacist was permanetly based there and had worked there for about 5-6 years, so all the people who came in were really familiar with her and had built up a trusting relationship with her.
When you became a locum, did you notice any difference in the relationship with your patients? I'd of thought that when you do locum, with the possibility of being in a different place every day, that it makes it a lot harder to build up a relationship with the patients where they have confidence and trust in you enough to use the pharmacist as the government intends.
It does seem like a tough juggling act to me at the minute; if i do opt for community eventually, I'd want to get to know the patients and staff well enough so that i feel i make a worthwhile contribution, on the other hand, as I said, i am prone to cabin fever and would hate being stuck in the same tiny space day in day out.