The UK's General Practitioner (GP) surgeries have been struggling to meet the demand for appointments from a sickly nation swelled by immigration and new housing estates with no corresponding increase in surrounding infrastructure to service everyone.

In order to ease the pressure on GP surgeries and the NHS generally, high street pharamacies are to be allowed to carry out more procedures, other than just providing prescription pharmacies over the counter.

These procedures include:

• chemotherapy
• cranial trepanning
• open heart surgery

Former Australian pharmacist Bill "Statins" Heslop told FNN:

Being a phamacist used to be so boring.

But now you can slice the top of someone's head off or crack open their chest and lift out their beating heart like some Aztec priest, I bet more young people will want to become pharmacists instead of Starbucks baristas.

Hey Muriel! Fetch me a tinnie. I'm parched.