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Priti Patel: Pharmacies should be used as ‘social prescribing hubs’

 
• By Kate Bowie

The former secretary of state has suggested that pharmacies “utilise their own buildings” to offer a social prescribing service.  

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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