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<blockquote data-quote="Grant_Vicat" data-source="post: 2443095" data-attributes="member: 388932"><p>Here is a letter (edited!) which I wrote 9 years ago to the Complaints Manager of our Surgery Pharmacy:</p><p></p><p>19th November 2012</p><p>Dear Ms,</p><p>Thank you for taking the trouble to write to me on 16th November and for clarifying matters raised in my letter to J C.</p><p>As a patient who relies on Insulin being available at all times, I'm sure you appreciate the perception of the Pharmacy system from the user's viewpoint. On being told that even Insulin had been controlled by a quota, I felt that to do nothing was not far short of irresponsible. However, from your explanation it is now clear to me that the problem is essentially external. I would suggest that any patient on life-saving medication needs assurance that they are not cut adrift, purely because of financial considerations. </p><p></p><p>Those "financial considerations", as outlined in her letter of the 16th effectively said that once the Surgery had reached its quota of insulin and test strips, they were allowed to sell any other stock abroad, since it would gain better prices! My immediate thoughts and response was that if I wanted to live in the USA and risk dying in the gutter, I would have moved over there...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grant_Vicat, post: 2443095, member: 388932"] Here is a letter (edited!) which I wrote 9 years ago to the Complaints Manager of our Surgery Pharmacy: 19th November 2012 Dear Ms, Thank you for taking the trouble to write to me on 16th November and for clarifying matters raised in my letter to J C. As a patient who relies on Insulin being available at all times, I'm sure you appreciate the perception of the Pharmacy system from the user's viewpoint. On being told that even Insulin had been controlled by a quota, I felt that to do nothing was not far short of irresponsible. However, from your explanation it is now clear to me that the problem is essentially external. I would suggest that any patient on life-saving medication needs assurance that they are not cut adrift, purely because of financial considerations. Those "financial considerations", as outlined in her letter of the 16th effectively said that once the Surgery had reached its quota of insulin and test strips, they were allowed to sell any other stock abroad, since it would gain better prices! My immediate thoughts and response was that if I wanted to live in the USA and risk dying in the gutter, I would have moved over there... [/QUOTE]
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