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ANGRY New Bilton residents are campaigning to keep
the chemist in Bridget Street open. They say they were not consulted in
the decision to close and relocate Rowlands Pharmacy to the town centre.
Roy Sandison of Avenue Road, New
Bilton, is calling on Rugby MP Andy King to get the decision reversed.
He said: "Where was the consultation with local people over this issue,
particularly the elderly and disabled? It will mean people have got to
trek into town to get to a pharmacy." He said the PCT say it is a minor
relocation to Corporation Street, adding: "Clearly this is not the case."
Peter Maddock, Chief Executive of
Rugby PCT, said: "There has been an application not to close but to relocate
the chemist. It is the decision of the chemist to move and as it is a
minor relocation there is no consultation."
Kathy Haslam, area manager for
Rowlands Pharmacy, said the relocation was considered necessary to provide
improved pharmacy services from modern premises at the same site as the new
doctors' practices which opened in June. "Permission for this minor
relocation was originally granted by Rugby PCT in February 2002 with the
requirements that there should be no break in service and that the services
provided at Bridget Street would also be provided at the new site," she said.
"Following site visits and an oral hearing, the National Appeals Panel, in
September 2002, endorsed the decision of the PCT." Rugby Advertiser 12
August 2004
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Chemists accused of 'shocking lapses. 'TWO Rugby pharmacists accused
off a series of 'shocking lapses', which included leaving a 15-year-old
leukaemia patient crying in agony, will now hear their fates later this year.
Neil and Carol Hutchinson, former owners of Whaley's Chemist in Sheep Street,
Rugby, could be kicked out of the profession after allegedly making a number
of serious errors. In one incident, the hearing was told that Neil brushed
aside the mother of a leukaemia patient, after she pleaded with him to sort
out a drug prescription error. He allegedly failed to hand over the medication
for half an hour after she arrived, leaving the 15-year-old boy in agony. In
other incidents, he was also alledged to have handed out the wrong medication
to patients - and to young offenders at Onley, who needed prescriptions to
curb behavioural problems. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society was due to give
its decision against the Hutchinson's on Monday but adjourned the hearing
after running out of time.
Rugby Advertiser
28 February 2007
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