Mm

... within 24 to 48 hours.

So they're the side effects of the flu vaccine.

When a flu hits, and when most people have had maybe one or two flus in their lifetime, when a flu hits, it's usually very severe.

It comes on quite suddenly.

Um, there aren't always nasal symptoms, so there isn't always a runny nose or a cough.

It might actually be very general aches and pains, severe temperature, severe headache, and really a sense of, "I can't move, I'm floored.

It is very painful and very difficult.

And does it also provide an additional revenue stream to pharmacists?

Absolutely.

And that will go without saying, and the fee had been agreed in our community pharmacy agreement of 25 and that fee has been set.

And really what it'll allow is more of the routine prescribing of contraception will fall to pharmacies.

Obviously there'll be inclusion and exclusion criteria and pharmacists will still refer patients to general practitioner or other medical professionals where necessary and were set out in clinical protocols.

But for the moment that routine prescription will go to the pharmacy.

that routine prescription work.

It's not just, the move is not just towards contraception, but part of a broader shift towards the capacity of pharmacists to treat illness rather than simply dispense.