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摘要

Just as effective flood defence needs more investment upstream, so does managing the funding crisis in health and social care. The massive footfall in more than 12,000 community pharmacies in the UK could provide the NHS's most effective outreach and its most cost-effective services. Pharmacists and their trained staff advise the public on how to be and stay healthy, signpost to enable early diagnosis of illlness, contribute to the availability of patient services proportionate to need and, in short, when effectively deployed, they cut costs without reducing care.