‘Pharmacy should be given a fighting chance in the current broken primary care system’

As the long-awaited Fuller stocktake is published, Leyla Hannbeck reflects on the missed opportunity to put pharmacy at the frontline of prevention and questions the real reasons the sector has once again been overlooked

AIMp CEO Leyla Hannbeck
ICS leaders should make a “courageous leap of faith into community pharmacies’ unique access”

The Fuller stocktake report aimed to decipher the next steps for integrating primary care. Published on May 26, it noted “there are real signs of genuine and growing discontent with primary care – both from the public who use it and the professionals who work within it”.

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