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These forms of outpatient care are a good earner for Boots.
這些形式的門診護理對博姿來說是一個很好的收入來源。
Assuming each of its pharmacies churns out 400 MURs a year, that one NHS programme is worth an annual 30m pounds to the company.
假設它的每家藥店每年完成400次藥物使用檢查，那么一個NHS項目每年對公司來說價值3000萬英鎊。
Stack alongside that the new medicine service (NMS) for patients on heavy-duty drugs, worth at least 25 pounds a time,
與此同時，為服用重劑量藥物的患者提供的新藥服務每次至少價值25英鎊，
NHS flu jabs at up to 17 pounds a pop, stop-smoking clinics, and a lot of public money is being sent to private companies to look after our health.
英國國家醫療服務體系的流感疫苗注射價格高達17英鎊，戒煙診所也提供這種疫苗，還有很多公共資金被送到私人公司來照顧我們的健康。
As far back as 2010, the NHS’s own research warned that MURs were being used to cream off public money and could be “of limited benefit and cursory in nature”.
早在2010年，英國國家醫療服務體系自己的研究就警告稱，藥物使用檢查正被用來榨取公共資金，而且可能“效益有限，而且性質草率”。
In 2013, the Pharmaceutical Journal noted that “some pharmacists face penalties for not meeting the targets, such as no pay rise or a possible loss of a bonus”.
2013年，《藥學雜志》指出，“一些藥劑師會因未達到目標而受到懲罰，比如不加薪或可能失去獎金”。
Yet though it has tweaked the criteria for MURs, the cash-strapped NHS has no plans to scrap the system.
然而，盡管已經調整了藥物使用檢查的標準，資金短缺的NHS并沒有計劃廢除該系統。
A few chemists even falsify MURs.
一些化學家甚至對藥物使用檢查進行了篡改。
Those caught go in front of the regulator, the General Pharmaceutical Council, which publishes its determinations online.
那些被抓的人會到監管機構——總制藥委員會面前，后者會在網上公布其裁決結果。
Sift through them and a pattern emerges.
通過篩選，一種模式出現了。
From the hearing of a Boots pharmacist in the West Midlands, April 2012:
2012年4月，西米德蘭茲郡一位博姿藥劑師的聽證會上說：
“He said the pressure to meet targets was relentless … Area managers ringing him on a daily basis,
他說，實現目標的壓力是無情的...區域經理每天都給他打電話，
asking how many (MURs) he had done and what he was going to do about them … He was told continuously that he was letting the store down …”
當被問及他已經做了多少次藥物使用檢查，打算怎么做時，他不斷被告知他讓這家店失望了...”
A Boots pharmacist in Nottingham, August 2012: “… She had felt under enormous pressure to carry out an unrealistic number of MURs …”
諾丁漢的一位博姿藥劑師，2012年8月：“...她在巨大的壓力下進行了不現實數量的藥物使用檢查...”
