‘Massive problems’: Conservative MP urges pharmacy funding model rethink

The government needs to “overcome...massive problems” with the way community pharmacy is funded – including the dispensing model, which “really doesn't work”, a Conservative MP has told C+D.

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Elliot Colburn MP: “The current dispensing model really doesn't work" • Source: UK Parliament (London Portrait Photoqrapher-DAVID WOOLFALL)

Pharmacists are “not being utilised as well as they can be” and should play a larger role in the NHS’s prevention agenda by providing preventative healthcare interventions, Elliot Colburn, MP for Carshalton and Wallington told C+D at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday (October 3).

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