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Debate between Kevin Hollinrake and Alistair Burt(8 years, 9 months ago)
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Alistair Burt
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for his question but for the way he put it. The message is that community pharmacy does, and is doing, an extraordinary and important job, but it will change. In 2013, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said in its publication, “Now or Never: Shaping pharmacy for the future”:
“The traditional model of community pharmacy will be challenged”
due to
“economic austerity in the NHS , a crowded market of local pharmacies, increasing use of technicians and automated technology to undertake dispensing, and the use of online and e-prescribing”.
It pointed to the massive potential of community pharmacists to do more and sees pharmacy as ideally placed
“to play a crucial role in new models of…care.”
All that is to come. We are negotiating with the pharmaceutical profession. A consultation is going on. There is a great future for pharmacy, but, like so much else, it will be different.
Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton) (Con)
13. What progress his Department has made on making the UK a world leader in tackling antimicrobial resistance.