One of Owl’s regular correspondents detects a sense of hypocrisy in a House of Lords contribution by Hugo Swire in a debate on Rural Area pharmacies. Swire, whose wife’s diaries disclosed that his interest in saving Ottery St. Mary hospital was purely to “really piss off ” Claire Wright, has now suggested pharmacies  could be located at community or cottage hospitals.

Well, any that  survived the Tory closures he supported!

speaker:Lord Swire : 1 Lords debate

Pharmacies: Rural Areas – Question

10 Sep 2024

Lord Swire: Another creative way is to locate some of these pharmacies where we still have community or cottage hospitals up and down the country, which has been done successfully. Will the Minister therefore undertake to look at where this is common practice to see if it can be expanded?