From Mr P. B. Lowe, MRPharmS
SIR,-Paragraph 12.6 of the NHS plan pledges that by 2004 patients will be able to see a primary care professional within 24 hours. Since this does not compare well with the 24 seconds or so it presently takes to see a pharmacist simply by walking into any community pharmacy, one wonders if the Health Service is to get that much worse or if, surprise, the Government has forgotten us again.
Peter Lowe
Newcastle upon Tyne