Shaw continued: “It’s not to say that medicines disappear and we can’t get them forever, but there’s significant delays and, at any one time, there are thousands of different lines that we can’t get hold of.”
Shaw said because the pharmacy had to pay for its products in advance, it was causing a lot of issues.
He said: “It’s only when we get a prescription and we hand it in at the end of the month that we get paid a few months later.
“We have to worry about the cost of our medicine, which is rising and also availability and local prescribing habits as well. Sometimes we’re finding quite a tight line between getting the money and ordering.”