Community pharmacists provide a vital service

YOUR editorial (August 8) supports the stance of the Minister for Health who has implemented cuts to pharmacists’ income far in excess of anything asked of any other sector — after seven years of refusing to talk to the representatives of community pharmacy and after herself being found in breach of contract in the High Court last year.

She implemented these drastic cuts against the advice of independent financial consultants who warned her that to do this would seriously destabilise the community pharmacy system.

You add insult to injury when you go on to refer to community pharmacists as “sectional interests who stand between this society and the possibility of economic recovery”.