Pharmacies: Medicines at Home

Lord Jackson of Peterborough Excerpts
Wednesday 17th May 2023

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Jackson of Peterborough Portrait Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con)
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My Lords, on the subject of support services, is my noble friend the Minister aware of, and does he deprecate, the widespread practice of catheterising very elderly people who are only temporarily immobile or infirm? In the long term, that reduces their independence and adds to the cumulative costs to the state of their care, particularly to primary care, the NHS and local authorities.