Primary Care: What people have told us about pharmacy

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Summary of report content

This report summarises the feedback received from people via Healthwatch Kent, Healthwatch Medway and Kent and Medway Voice about their experiences of pharmacies from November 2022 to April 2023. This covers 18 pieces of feedback. As much of the feedback came from people who contacted proactively, there was a bias towards negative feedback. 28% of the feedback received was positive in sentiment.



The most frequent theme in people’s feedback was medication, prescriptions and dispensing, which occurred in 89% of cases. Care given by staff was the second most common theme, identified in 28% of the feedback, followed by communication between staff and patients, featuring in 17% of the feedback.

This report explores the key themes and identifies sub-themes. The number of pieces of feedback for each theme is noted in brackets in the report headings and displayed in the chart below.

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Local Healthwatch
Healthwatch Kent
Healthwatch Medway
Publication date
Date evidence capture began
Date evidence capture finished
Key themes
Access to services
Accessibility and reasonable adjustments
Booking appointments
Communication with patients; treatment explanation; verbal advice
Cost and funding of services
Health inequality
Medication, prescriptions and dispensing
Quality of treatment

Methodology and approach

Was the work undertaken in partnership with another organisation?
Yes
Name(s) of the partner organisation(s)
Kent and Medway Voice
Primary research method used
General feedback

Details of health and care services included in the report

Details of health and care services included in the report
Pharmacy

Details of people who shared their views

Number of people who shared their views
18
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