"I just feel like the government and the NHS aren't taking this seriously enough, because we're firefighting in the background silently," said Reena Barai, who owns and runs a pharmacy in south-west London. "They're not realising the impact of this.
Is it going to take patients to die without medication for them to start waking up and realising that this is a really serious issue that needs solving?" Barai is far from alone.
Ian Strachan, who owns four pharmacies in the north-west of England, said: "If you're on an inhaler you need that inhaler, if it's insulin then you need that insulin.
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