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      <title>Dr Julian Birch [Signature #124]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19998116?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr Julian Birch, Shrewsbury, Shropshire]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 02:42:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #123]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Penperlleni, Goetre]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:55:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Brian Parker [Signature #122]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Brian Parker, Yateley, Hampshire<p>This bill is obviously for financial savings regardless of the consequences to rural residents</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:01:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Carol  Ann Norman [Signature #121]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Carol  Ann Norman, Dorchester, Dorset<p>My local doctors practise is an invaluable service providing its many patients with immediate prescription dispensing on the premises. Many of us in the village, which is 6-7 miles from the nearest town, dont have transport &amp; the buses are few, so to have to go to town for a prescription would take at least a 2-3 hour round trip.  I am recovering from major surgery and without the dispensary, would have had to wait for a neighbour or relative to take my prescriptions to town to be filled</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:16:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr David Whitaker [Signature #120]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Whitaker, Lewannick, Cornwall<p>If this White Paper proposal goes ahead then I, and up to 80,000 other Cornish patients, will have to drive 14 miles or more/less, at least once a month, to collect our prescriptions. This obviously adds to carbon emissions and certainly does NOT help the government to reach their emission targets. This proposal is ill conceived and again like Post Office closures hits the rural community.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2008 05:40:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Kate mansfield [Signature #119]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Kate mansfield, altarnun, cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Dec 2008 05:26:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr gareth mansfield [Signature #118]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr gareth mansfield, altarnun, cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Dec 2008 05:23:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Cyril Cowell [Signature #117]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Cyril Cowell, Mylor, Falmouth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:56:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anita Ponton-Brown [Signature #116]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anita Ponton-Brown, St.Kew Highway, Cornwall<p>I am severely disabled with mobility problems. So could not manage without my dispensing doctor&#039;s practice. There is no local pharmacy in our village.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:28:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr James Coward [Signature #115]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr James Coward, Wyre Piddle Pershore, Worcs<p>Hardship and in effect withdrawal of medical facilities for the rural elderly.    Increased use of cars to reach surgeries and dispensing chemists causes air pollution and using up of petroleum resources.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:09:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Margaret Coward [Signature #114]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Margaret Coward, Wyre Piddle Pershore, Worcs<p>Loss of dispensing income will lead to the closure of many rural medical practices and this will cause extreme hardship to many elderly and sick patients living in rural areas.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:58:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs mary toms [Signature #113]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs mary toms, roche st austell, cornwall<p>My daughter who lives  25 minutes drive away is completing this for me. I am 90 years old and wheel chair user. I need prescription medicines on a regular basis and the nearest chemist is more than a mile away. I have a local helper who does not drive and a daughter who can collect it from my GP surgery. All my friends are of a similar age and health.  My daughter would have to drive for over an hour to collect my medicine if the rules changed. There is no viable bus service.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:49:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr David Franklyn [Signature #112]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Franklyn, Bude, Cornwall<p>To loose the right of our Surgery to dispense<br />
medicines will cause untold difficulties for patients myself included who rely heavily on this service. It must not be stopped.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:04:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Ilona Franklyn [Signature #111]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Ilona Franklyn, Bude, Cornwall<p>This service provided by our Surgery is very neccesary for all the patients at Boscastle Surgery, but most especially by the elderly and disabled patients. The nearest pharmacy is a considerable distance from the surgery.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 07:55:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Trevor Morgan [Signature #110]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Trevor Morgan, Ladock, Cornwall<p>If I cant get my prescription from the surgery,  the nearest chemist is 9 miles away.  Which is a very long way if you are ill and especially if you dont have your own transport. I am well past my sell by date.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Richard Pugh [Signature #109]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Richard Pugh, Looe, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Nov 2008 05:42:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Antony Gibbs [Signature #108]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Antony Gibbs, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:46:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Betty Gibbs [Signature #107]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Betty Gibbs, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:45:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Elizabeth Webber [Signature #106]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Elizabeth Webber, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:43:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Frederick Webber [Signature #105]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Frederick Webber, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:42:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Susan Fisher [Signature #104]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Susan Fisher, Newquay, Cornwall<p>Again, this government is disregarding the rural communities. What&#039;s next after removing rural dispensing services I wonder? - removing cancer care from  Treliske to Derriford?</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:38:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Edward George [Signature #103]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Edward George, Trevellas, Cornwall<p>My wife uses the St.Agnes Surgery for all her medication needs and it would be a great inconvenience to us if we had to obtain such items from an alternative source.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:16:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Phillip Bowden [Signature #102]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Phillip Bowden, Falmouth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:26:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anne Dean [Signature #101]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anne Dean, Falmouth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:26:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Jean Bowden [Signature #100]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jean Bowden, Falmouth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Patricia Cohen [Signature #99]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Patricia Cohen, Tregony, Cornwall<p>Do not stop dispensaries in rural areas - they are vital!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:31:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Vera Sweet [Signature #98]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Vera Sweet, Cusgarne, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:16:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>M Ostle [Signature #97]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4392409?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[M Ostle, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:37:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>C Inman [Signature #96]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[C Inman, Truro, Cornwall<p>lot further to travel to a pharmacy than to GP surgery</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:34:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Peter Gane [Signature #95]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Gane, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:02:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Dennis Welch [Signature #94]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Dennis Welch, Ponsanooth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:04:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Shelagh Ann williams [Signature #93]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Shelagh Ann williams, Ponsanooth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:02:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Peter Charles Burley williams [Signature #92]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Charles Burley williams, Ponsanooth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:01:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs jennifer collins [Signature #91]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs jennifer collins, truro, cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:28:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Linda Tregenna [Signature #90]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Linda Tregenna, Mylor Bridge, Nr Falmouth, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:09:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr david bolton [Signature #89]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr david bolton, st teath, cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:08:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Mary Stoneman [Signature #88]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Mary Stoneman, Launceston, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:51:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Christopher Westwood [Signature #87]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Christopher Westwood, Mylor Bridge, Cornwall<p>Our village has a local surgery with pharmacy.  With the halving of the local bus service it is increasingly dificult to travel to town to pick up a prescription from a mainstream pharmacy.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:13:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Kathryn Bloxham [Signature #86]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Kathryn Bloxham, Tregony, Cornwall<p>I am entirely reliant on my husband to get me anywhere other than my village. If my Surgery was not allowed to dispense I could not collect essential medications</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:06:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Hilary Swain [Signature #85]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Hilary Swain, Carnon Downs, Cornwall<p>I feel it would be a great hardship for many people if this service was taken away. I use Carnon Downs surgery regularly and use their pharmacy as do many residents in the area.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:52:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Janet White [Signature #84]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Janet White, Truro, Cornwall<p>This is an invaluable service to many of the residents of rural areas who cannot travel to collect prescriptions.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:54:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Valerie Phillips [Signature #83]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Valerie Phillips, Truro, Cornwall<p>We are with Carnon Downs surgery and would have to go into Truro to collect a prescription if they stopped dispensing.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:32:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Julie Wooller [Signature #82]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Julie Wooller, St. Agnes, Cornwall<p>Commercial Pharmacies cannot always be accessed by people in rural communities therefore dispensing via surgeries is an essential ingredient of rural living</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:22:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Kenneth Wooller [Signature #81]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Kenneth Wooller, St. Agnes, Cornwall<p>Absolutely essential service to retain for rural areas</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:20:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Dorothy Murrish [Signature #80]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Dorothy Murrish, Chacewater, Truro, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:00:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Frances Durose [Signature #79]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Frances Durose, Tresillian, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:46:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Paul Durose [Signature #78]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Paul Durose, Tresillian, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:44:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Charmian King [Signature #77]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Charmian King, Burlawn, Wadebridge, Cornwall<p>In rural areas, such as Cornwall, it is essential to keep the Doctors pharmacy.    Those who do not have access to their own transport means no extra wait/journey when dependent on infrequent public transport (one/two per day) with perhaps a long walk between the surgery and pharmacy with young children or infirmity.     Up country people do NOT realise the distances between town and villages in Cornwall and the time it takes - an hour to travel from Wadebridge to Treliske by bus, all of 25 mile</p>]]></description>
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      <title>John Peters [Signature #76]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Peters, Liskeard, Cornwall]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Frederick Barker [Signature #75]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Frederick Barker, Wembury, Plymouth, Devon]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:24:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Tracy Saunders [Signature #74]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Tracy Saunders, Truro, Cornwall<p>As i work standard 9-5 Mon-Fri i cannot often get to a pharmacy in time before they shut, whereas i am able to pick up my prescription from my GP practice on the way home from work. This is much more convenient for me</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Roland Chapman [Signature #73]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Roland Chapman, Crafthole, Cornwall]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:07:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Florence  Anne Chapman [Signature #72]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Florence  Anne Chapman, Crafthole, Cornwall]]></description>
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      <title>ms Jane Blackery [Signature #71]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Jane Blackery, Grampound road, cornwall uk<p>If the practises cannot dispense medicine this will undoubtedly put more traffic on the roads, which cornwall (especially truro) really needs and increase the carbon footprint. Have they thought about the old who find it hard even to get to their local surgery to get medicine let alone travelling to towns and waiting for a chemist to dispense</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr peter mclaren, torpoint, cornwall<p>We must stop the decay of sevices to our rural communities.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jan Santillo, Menheniot, LISKEARD<p>Our nearest chemist is 10 miles away from our surgery</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Alan Santillo, Liskeard, Cornwall<p>Our Surgery dispensary does a great job, so if its not broke dont fix it</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Robert Wicks, Falmouth, Cornwall<p>I feel that Trescobeas surgery should not be closed as it is a seperate business to the surgery next dooor.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr mike glasson, lanner redruth, cornwall<p>Get the JOCKS back in Scotland and have England governed by the English and leave our rural surgeries alone to carry on doing the great job they are already doing.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Elizabeth Nina Grubb, Mylor Bridge,  Falmouth, Cornwall<p>Cornwall cannot be classed as other places in the U.K. it is extremely rural and has rotten bus and train services.   It has a very old population, and at present we are fighting HAVING  TO  GO  TO  DEVON  for Cardio Thoracic Treatment and Cancer.  My husband died in Derriford Hospital which is more than an hour away - BY CAR.<br />
Please leave our Surgeries alone and the Pharmacies - we do not want the POLY CLINICS either.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Elizabeth Vowles, St Day, Redruth., Cornwall<p>We live in Creegbrawse, a small hamlet outside the village of Chacewater.  For ourselves it would be a sad day if Chacewater surgery and others in the area were not allowed to dispense medicines. In Creegbrawse we have many elderly people who would find it very difficult and in some cases impossible to go to the nearest chemist, which would be Three Mile Stone, and also in Chacewater, the village is built up of mainly elderly people and young mothers.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Kathryn White, REDRUTH, Cornwall<p>The patients all over the country who live in rural areas rely heavily on the dispencing of medication by their doctors&#039; surgeries. Many patients cannot drive and with public transport sometimes very sparse, find great difficulty getting to a town with a chemist. We need the surgery pharmacies to keep the patient&#039;s independence, which is vitally important as you get older.  Please, please reconsider this proposal.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs margaret saunders, truro, cornwall<p>i am on a low income and find it more economical to collect my medication from my surgery at the same time as i see my doctor,especially as sometimes i have to rely on other people for transport.if the dispensary was taken away from our surgery i would have to make a 10 mile round trip to get to the nearest chemist as i live in a rural location and do not have a direct bus route to it</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ian Amor, Truro,, Cornwall,<p>The ability of pharmacists to make recommendations to customers regarding appropriate medicines for minor ailments is to be applauded. The loss of pharmacies in rural surgeries is an absolute disaster. Beyond the inconvenience to be visited on the elderly, infirm and those not able to travel without great effort; the carbon footprint caused by this legislation will be enormous!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs gwyneth parker-price, redruth, cornwall<p>the convenience of getting my medicines from chacewater surgery is extremely important, otherwise i would have a long trip into truro which is a waste of my fuel and my carbon footprint.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lynette Price, Downderry, Torpoint, Cornwall<p>This service is essential in Downderry for many people.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[rowland shannon, lanivet, bodmin, cornwall<p>As someone with reduced mobility, it&#039;s bad enough getting to the gp surgery, getting into town to collect any prescription would be virtually impossible.  This is potentially one cost cutting measure to far.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs MONIQUE HEATH, TREGONY, CORNWALL<p>We live in a village 9 miles from nearest town. Buses unriliable and expensive. Our son Paul is epileptic and relies on the surgery to provide his monthly prescription. He will never be able to drive due to his condition. Tregony has a part time off shoot of Portscatho surgery which is unvaluable i our village.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Lisa Joanne Clarke, Portscatho, Truro, Cornwall<p>If this goes ahead, I have to travel miles with my young children to get medicine.  This is ridiculous, Portscatho need medicine from the Doctors as we have no chemist.<br />
GET LABOUR OUT!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Paul Voller, Carnon Downs, Truro, Cornwall<p>This could make life very difficult for me, I have a regular monthly prescription. I am able to walk to the Doctors surgery, I do not drive anymore which would mean a 5 mile each way bus journey to collect a prescription. These people that come up with these stupid ideas probably live in a city and never have to collect a prescription.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR Norman Howard, Carnon Downs, Truro, Cornwall<p>It will require a five mile bus journey into the city to collect any medicines prescribed by the doctor then a wait for another bus for the five mile journey home if the Doctor&#039;s surgery is unable to dispense the prescription.  Is the government hell-bent on the wholesale destruction of rural communities?  I think that the answer to that question is &quot;Yes&quot;.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jean Catherine Howard, Carnon Downs, Truro, Cornwall<p>The nearest chemist is 5 miles away, in the city, requiring a special bus journey to collect any prescriptions if the surgery cannot dispense</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Michael Jewitt, Widegates, Cornwall<p>We live several miles from the nearest town<br />
and therefore would not want to lose our Doctors surgery dispensary.</p>]]></description>
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