A BARNSLEY MP has welcomed the government’s decision to reopen negotiations about community pharmacy funding.
Michael Dugher, MP for Barnsley East, said ministers’ own figures showed the £170m cut could force up to 3,000 local chemists - a quarter of all those in the country - to close.
In Yorkshire and Humber about 300 - one in every four - would close.
Mr Dugher has campaigned as part of a cross-party group of MPs, patients and pharmacists to oppose the cut, which was set to take effect next month.
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