i wrote the weddings page for the hinkley times. this is clearly not new news.underused resource, the well educated and well informed and very experienced pharmacists. it is not just basically the tool of the gp to dish out those in screw the ball pots and pills that we look at and ta ke pots and pills that we look at and take in. —— inscrutible. because the accident and emergency is so overused, especially in winter months, perhaps parents should consider taking their children as a first port of call to pharmacists instead. that obviously comes with a certain amount of risk because it could mean that parents feel obliged to perhaps downplayed their children's illness. i wonder what euphemisms they will use, the government, winter pressure. the system is crumbling. we say winter pressure every year, don't we? exactly be but accident and emergency, it is not like the governmentjust emergency, it is not like the government just discovered pharmacies are good thing, this is just a desperate ploy to stop people presenting at accident and emergency. the focus should