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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.
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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0Margaret Billings sustained fatal injuries when she was caught between a moving boat and a riverbank during a day out “with family and friends”, an inquest has found.
3C+D rounds up some of the immediate pharmacy reaction to news that NHS England will be abolished, with more control moving back to the government and local leaders…
3Wes Streeting has revealed that the DH is “immediately” working to scrap NHS England (NHSE) and put a new “transformation team” in place – adding that it is in the “very final stages” of concluding a new pharmacy contract deal.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has responded to criticisms of its plans to register as a charity and gain royal college status, stressing that it followed a “democratic process”.
The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has called for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) to “abandon its hastily convened ballot” on royal college status, while others called for a dissenting board member to “resign immediately”.
