{"id":31819,"date":"2021-09-25T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31819"},"modified":"2021-09-25T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T21:12:06","slug":"patients-face-delays-on-prescriptions-as-van-driver-shortage-hits-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/25\/patients-face-delays-on-prescriptions-as-van-driver-shortage-hits-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients face delays on prescriptions as van driver shortage hits pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21949\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patients are facing delays to their prescriptions and shortages of over-the-counter drugs because of a\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2021\/07\/04\/shortage-lorry-drivers-raises-spectre-empty-shelves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"55\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:55,&quot;p&quot;:53,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:2}\">lack of van drivers<\/a>, and the problem is expected to get worse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/patients-face-delays-on-prescriptions-as-van-driver-shortage-hits-pharmacies\/ar-AAOOqgC?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Patients are facing delays to their prescriptions and shortages of over-the-counter drugs because of a\u00a0lack of van drivers, and the problem is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharmasist-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31820,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819\/revisions\/31820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}