'Expect considerable pressure from staff shortages'

摘要

The offices of the Company Chemists' Association (CCA) are just a stone's throw from the grand grade II listed headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association in London's Bloomsbury. And even though the body represents around 6,000 high street pharmacies - roughly half the community pharmacy market in the UK -there are no stucco columns or brass name plates by its door to announce its importance. The CCA may be more than 120 years old (formed in 1898 as the Drug Companies Association), but its chief executive Malcolm Harrison works out of business-like premises, nesded among the restaurants near Euston Station.