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Beth Kennedy looks back over a tumultuous few years in healthcare policy as yet another pharmacy minister bites the dust
There was a collective groan in the C+D offices this morning as the news came in that Neil O’Brien – our eighth pharmacy minister since 2019 – announced that he was resigning in an effort to “focus 100%” on his constituency and to “see more” of his two children.
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There will be a huge reliance on the senior team at Boots to deliver whatever plan transpires, and to prepare pharmacy teams for whatever difficult decisions will be coming. And they will be difficult.
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I also read comments that CPE does not appreciate this critical position, and I fundamentally refute that. Knowing the colleagues, both elected and employed, at CPE as I do, this is far from the case.
Community pharmacy is risk adverse, considered, and dare I say it, conservative. But, when it comes to the survival of pharmacy, we can’t afford to let the fear of change – or those resistant to it - hold us back.
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