英国卫报:走向失控的博姿药妆(14)

These forms of outpatient care are a good earner for Boots.

这些形式的门诊护理对博姿来说是一个很好的收入来源。

Assuming each of its pharmacies¹ churns out 400 MURs a year, that one NHS programme is worth an annual 30m pounds to the company.

假设它的每家药店每年完成400次药物使用检查，那么一个NHS项目每年对公司来说价值3000万英镑。

Stack alongside that the new medicine service (NMS) for patients on heavy-duty drugs, worth at least 25 pounds a time,

与此同时，为服用重剂量药物的患者提供的新药服务每次至少价值25英镑，

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.

英国国家医疗服务体系的流感疫苗注射价格高达17英镑，戒烟诊所也提供这种疫苗，还有很多公共资金被送到私人公司来照顾我们的健康。

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 cursory² in nature”.

早在2010年，英国国家医疗服务体系自己的研究就警告称，药物使用检查正被用来榨取公共资金，而且可能“效益有限，而且性质草率”。

In 2013, the Pharmaceutical³ Journal noted⁴ that “some pharmacists face penalties for not meeting the targets, such as no pay rise or a possible loss of a bonus”.

2013年，《药学杂志》指出，“一些药剂师会因未达到目标而受到惩罚，比如不加薪或可能失去奖金”。

Yet though it has tweaked the criteria⁵ for MURs, the cash-strapped NHS has no plans to scrap⁶ the system.

然而，尽管已经调整了药物使用检查的标准，资金短缺的NHS并没有计划废除该系统。

A few chemists even falsify MURs.

一些化学家甚至对药物使用检查进行了篡改。

Those caught go in front of the regulator, the General Pharmaceutical Council, which publishes its determinations online.

那些被抓的人会到监管机构——总制药委员会面前，后者会在网上公布其裁决结果。

Sift⁷ through them and a pattern emerges.

通过筛选，一种模式出现了。

From the hearing of a Boots pharmacist in the West Midlands, April 2012:

2012年4月，西米德兰兹郡一位博姿药剂师的听证会上说：

“He said the pressure to meet targets was relentless⁸ … Area managers ringing him on a daily basis,

他说，实现目标的压力是无情的...区域经理每天都给他打电话，

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 …”

当被问及他已经做了多少次药物使用检查，打算怎么做时，他不断被告知他让这家店失望了...”

A Boots pharmacist in Nottingham, August 2012: “… She had felt under enormous pressure to carry out an unrealistic number of MURs …”

诺丁汉的一位博姿药剂师，2012年8月：“...她在巨大的压力下进行了不现实数量的药物使用检查...”

1 pharmacies   

药店

参考例句：

• Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions. 但仍然有32%的药剂师配发了这两张药方。 来自互联网
• Chinese herbal pharmacies, and traditional massage therapists in the Vancouver telephone book. 中药店，和传统的按摩师在温哥华的电话簿里。 来自互联网

2 cursory   

adj.粗略的；草率的；匆促的

参考例句：

• He signed with only a cursory glance at the report.他只草草看了一眼报告就签了名。
• The only industry mentioned is agriculture and it is discussed in a cursory sentence.实业方面只谈到农业,而且只是匆匆带了一句。

3 pharmaceutical   

adj.药学的，药物的；药用的，药剂师的

参考例句：

• She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
• We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。

4 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

5 criteria   

n.标准

参考例句：

• The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
• There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。

6 scrap   

n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废

参考例句：

• A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
• Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。

7 sift   

v.筛撒，纷落，详察

参考例句：

• Sift out the wheat from the chaff.把小麦的壳筛出来。
• Sift sugar on top of the cake.在蛋糕上面撒上糖。

8 relentless   

adj.残酷的，不留情的，无怜悯心的

参考例句：

• The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
• Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。