They actually listened and the pharmacy permit is officially off the table. I honestly still can not believe it went our way but here we are and I am just staring at my screen in total shock. We should probably keep an eye on the council minutes for a while …
January 31, 2014
Final supporters
Statement 1
We do not feel that it is necessary or desirable to have a pharmacy in Castletown as we already have an excellent provision of pharmacy services in our locality. In addition we also enjoy the services of a dispensing General Practice which gives us access to a whole range of services.
Statement 2
We intend to boycott the pharmacy if it opens because of the detrimental effect to our community with respect to our doctors’ surgeries.
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Updates
Reached 250 supporters
November 16, 2013
November 15, 2013
Seeing this much energy behind our cause is honestly overwhelming and I keep refreshing the page just to make sure I am seeing it right because a few weeks ago I felt like I was shouting into the void alone. It is clear that the people living here value our current setup and really do not want to see these changes forced upon us despite what the powers that be might think.
Reached 100 supporters
November 8, 2013
48 Comments
The existing service is all we need so why change it? Also the distance we would have to travel would be approx 34 miles round trip just to pick up a prescription!
Having a pharmacy is going to be detrimental to the area as this could lead to further job losses and also the possible closure of the practice. This in turn would put more pressure on our already fragile healthcare and A&E and a very busy Caithness General Hospital, which could really do without any further adding to their already overflowing workload.
As a resident of Casteltown Village for nearly 40years, mother of a diabetic son, I DO NOT want this pharmacy, we have an excellent service within the doctors surgery. Why would we want a total stranger dealing with our medical needs! PLEASE STOP THIS STUPID PROPOSAL AND APPLICATION
Totally unnecessary for a pharmacy, we get an excellent service from the GPs practice and if the opening of the paharmacy forces the practice to close then it will be a disaster as Thurso/Wick GP practices are already stretched to the limit.
I had 50 years of awkward receptionists and 5 to 7 days of waitin g to see a GP in England, Castletown Surgery is superb, so is the pharmacy- leave it alone!
Not needed and potentially harmful to existing services.
Castletown and Canisbay are already served by an excellent combined dispensing practice, accessible at two surgeries, which enjoy daily drug deliveries, and which would be threatened by the the inevitable loss of dispensary income subsequent to the opening of the proposed chain pharmacy. Local patients have made clear their support for the current dispensing practice, and their wish that it continue as it is. The proposed pharmacy offers little if any improvement to the dispensing service already in place; any additional services are simply duplications of those already offered by the GP practice, and a pharmacy would certainly not be able to replace any core GP services lost to the community as a result of the falloff in practice income. Any patient subsequently forced to seek a GP further afield, in Thurso or Wick, would have their prescriptions filled at the existing pharmacies in Thurso or Wick, rather than making the extra journey to Castletown pharmacy, threatening its own viability. Then where would we be? The applicant has elected to serve only a small part of the current catchment area, yet falsely claims the full dispensing volume of both surgeries in support of his application. He promises a delivery service to this small, relatively compact, area, yet avoids being contractually obliged to fulfill even this promise. He repeatedly promised to abandon his plans for application if the locals were against it; only one person supported his proposal after the initial consultation period, yet he went ahead with his application anyway. The proposed premises are of doubtful suitability, and his schedule for refurbishment unachievable. He applies in his own name as Responsible Pharmacist though he makes it clear he has no intention whatsoever of moving to the area. His manifest insincerity inspires no confidence, yet he aims to provide confidential health checks for the people whose wishes he ignores. The NHS constitution begins: "The NHS belongs to the p
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They actually listened and the pharmacy permit is officially off the table. I honestly still can not believe it went our way but here we are and I am just staring at my screen in total shock. We should probably keep an eye on the council minutes for a while …
January 31, 2014
Final supporters
Statement 1
We do not feel that it is necessary or desirable to have a pharmacy in Castletown as we already have an excellent provision of pharmacy services in our locality. In addition we also enjoy the services of a dispensing General Practice which gives us access to a whole range of services.
Statement 2
We intend to boycott the pharmacy if it opens because of the detrimental effect to our community with respect to our doctors’ surgeries.
If you have signed this petition, please do not sign a paper copy if you happen to come across one, and vice-versa if you have signed a paper copy please refrain from signing this petition. Thanks.
Once you submit your petition the next screen asks for a donation, this has nothing to do with us it is the site, so just leave the page once it pops up, or if you want to make a donation to the site then feel free to do so.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
November 16, 2013
November 15, 2013
Seeing this much energy behind our cause is honestly overwhelming and I keep refreshing the page just to make sure I am seeing it right because a few weeks ago I felt like I was shouting into the void alone. It is clear that the people living here value our current setup and really do not want to see these changes forced upon us despite what the powers that be might think.
Reached 100 supporters
November 8, 2013
48 Comments
The surgery is absolutely essential to those who live in and around Castletown. It is incredibly short sighted and unsupportive of initiative to think of losing an holistic service for a commercial business.
The existing service is all we need so why change it? Also the distance we would have to travel would be approx 34 miles round trip just to pick up a prescription!
Having a pharmacy is going to be detrimental to the area as this could lead to further job losses and also the possible closure of the practice. This in turn would put more pressure on our already fragile healthcare and A&E and a very busy Caithness General Hospital, which could really do without any further adding to their already overflowing workload.
As a resident of Casteltown Village for nearly 40years, mother of a diabetic son, I DO NOT want this pharmacy, we have an excellent service within the doctors surgery. Why would we want a total stranger dealing with our medical needs! PLEASE STOP THIS STUPID PROPOSAL AND APPLICATION
Totally unnecessary for a pharmacy, we get an excellent service from the GPs practice and if the opening of the paharmacy forces the practice to close then it will be a disaster as Thurso/Wick GP practices are already stretched to the limit.
I had 50 years of awkward receptionists and 5 to 7 days of waitin g to see a GP in England, Castletown Surgery is superb, so is the pharmacy- leave it alone!
Not needed and potentially harmful to existing services.
Castletown and Canisbay are already served by an excellent combined dispensing practice, accessible at two surgeries, which enjoy daily drug deliveries, and which would be threatened by the the inevitable loss of dispensary income subsequent to the opening of the proposed chain pharmacy. Local patients have made clear their support for the current dispensing practice, and their wish that it continue as it is. The proposed pharmacy offers little if any improvement to the dispensing service already in place; any additional services are simply duplications of those already offered by the GP practice, and a pharmacy would certainly not be able to replace any core GP services lost to the community as a result of the falloff in practice income. Any patient subsequently forced to seek a GP further afield, in Thurso or Wick, would have their prescriptions filled at the existing pharmacies in Thurso or Wick, rather than making the extra journey to Castletown pharmacy, threatening its own viability. Then where would we be? The applicant has elected to serve only a small part of the current catchment area, yet falsely claims the full dispensing volume of both surgeries in support of his application. He promises a delivery service to this small, relatively compact, area, yet avoids being contractually obliged to fulfill even this promise. He repeatedly promised to abandon his plans for application if the locals were against it; only one person supported his proposal after the initial consultation period, yet he went ahead with his application anyway. The proposed premises are of doubtful suitability, and his schedule for refurbishment unachievable. He applies in his own name as Responsible Pharmacist though he makes it clear he has no intention whatsoever of moving to the area. His manifest insincerity inspires no confidence, yet he aims to provide confidential health checks for the people whose wishes he ignores. The NHS constitution begins: "The NHS belongs to the p
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The surgery is absolutely essential to those who live in and around Castletown. It is incredibly short sighted and unsupportive of initiative to think of losing an holistic service for a commercial business.