Phil Brickell: ...talent across the borough. Elsewhere, MBDA, one of the UK’s largest defence firms, manufactures at the Logistics North site in my constituency. Cohens Chemist, which provides invaluable GP and pharmacy services, is headquartered in Lostock. Finally and importantly, the plastic recycling firm Toughsheet focuses on repurposing waste products for use in the building industry. There are...
Wes Streeting: ...to find beds for their patients and dealing with outdated IT when they ought to be treating patients. Too many people end up in hospital because they cannot get the help that they need from a pharmacy, a GP or social care. The effective reforms of the last Labour Government, which drove better performance and better care for patients, have mostly been undone, and that is why patients...
Karin Smyth: ...link: https://www.asa.org.uk/news/prescription-only-weight-loss-pr oducts-an-enforcement-notice.html The MHRA also works closely with the General Pharmaceutical Council, who have issued guidance for pharmacies that operate at a distance, including online, which is available at the following link: https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/about-us/news-and-updates...
Ben Obese-Jecty: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the main differences will be between the (a) existing scope of the Pharmacy First programme and (b) proposed scope of the Community Pharmacy Prescribing Service.
Karin Smyth: .... For example, the Department recently completed work to amend the HMRs 2012 to allow dental hygienists and dental therapists to supply and administer specified medicines via exemptions, and pharmacy technicians to use Patient Group Directions. This legislation came into force in late June 2024.
Colin McGrath: ...an hour in the morning to triage all the calls that come in. Depending on what is needed, they then send the patient to the relevant profession, be that social work, physiotherapy, counselling or pharmacy. One of the GPs said to me, "If somebody rings me up and says that they have a sore elbow, there is very little that I, as a GP, can do". If that GP can send the patient straight to the...
Pharmacies: Rural Areas - Question
Stephen Kinnock: ...a programme on medicine optimisation which aims to help patients to improve outcomes and safety, take medicines as intended, avoid taking unnecessary medicines, and reduce wastage. Community pharmacies also offer the New Medicines Service, providing further support to patients newly prescribed certain medicines, and the Discharge Medicines Service, enabling hospitals to refer recently...
Alex Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average payments to community pharmacies were in Aldershot constituency in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.
Siân Berry: ...than the second route, under which they access it not directly but via a separately accredited provider of naloxone. As Release says, one of the simpler ways to achieve that might be to make it a pharmacy-available drug rather than a prescription drug, with some exceptions, as we have now. I do not want to say, “Don’t do this”; I am saying, “Do it, then review it and go further if...
Karin Smyth: ...Opportunities for ICBs, more information can be found at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/national-medicines-opti misation-opportunities-2023-24/Addressing problematic polypharmacyDelivering Structured Medication Reviews, more information can be found at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/primary-care/pharmacy/smr/Improvi ng repeat prescribing...
Karin Smyth: ...of methylphenidate prolonged release tablets. We have widely disseminated our communications and continually update a list of currently available and unavailable ADHD products on the Specialist Pharmacy Service website, helping to ensure that those involved in the prescribing and dispensing of ADHD medications can make informed decisions with patients.
Karin Smyth: ...ADHD service providers and prescribers further, we have widely disseminated our communications and continually update a list of currently available and unavailable ADHD products on the Specialist Pharmacy Service website, helping ensure that those involved in the prescribing and dispensing of ADHD medications can make informed decisions with patients, which is available at the following...
Stuart McMillan: ...the special support for disabled people being enhanced across all local authorities by the summer of 2025; the reform of primary care to increase capacity and access to general practice, community pharmacy, dental and community eye care services by the end of 2026; and the additional £120 million for health boards to support continued improvements across a range of mental health services...
John Swinney: ...centre for sustainable delivery programmes, thus eliminating unnecessary hospital attendances. We will reform primary care, increasing capacity and access to general practice, community pharmacy, dental and community eyecare services by the end of 2026. Backed by £120 million of additional funding for NHS boards, we will support continued improvements across a range of mental...
Jim Shannon: ..., but they are ones apparent to all of us across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. First, does he understand and perhaps agree that the Minister and Government could look at pharmacies having a bigger role in treating minor ailments? Secondly, there is the issue of how people, particularly elderly people, can access GP appointments regularly. Thirdly, when it comes...
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of sales of weight loss injections by online pharmacies.
Lord Scriven: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to extend the services that could be provided by community pharmacies as part of Pharmacy First.
Anna Sabine: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of insulin stocks in pharmacies in Somerset.
