Joanne Bunting: ...family support, but they are supposed to get there, while left to their own devices, via public transport, perhaps with a daily requirement for a prescription in Belfast. They make their way to the pharmacy, something goes awry, the miscommunication cycle starts, and boom: they are tired and alone; they have nothing and nobody; they are afraid, anxious and frustrated; and their temper is...
Lord Storey: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the closure of over 1,000 pharmacies since 2015; and what assessment they have made of the impact of pharmacy closures in deprived areas.
Health and Social Care Committee: Pharmacy.
Pam Cameron: ...look at the entirety of the issues. That, I suggest, includes preventative measures to stop people getting to the front door of the hospital. I am thinking of GP services, investment in community pharmacy and all those things that might seem small but that are vital to keep people away from the hospital door. That is what we want. Of course, we need to get people out the back door of the...
Robin Swann: ...a mother-and-baby unit, as I set out in the mental health strategy delivery plan for 2023-24. I could go on, as there are so many other women's health initiatives across primary care, social care, pharmacy services and allied health services, including hugely important areas such as maternal health, sexual health and pregnancy loss, which I do not have time to cover today. I hope, however,...
Andrew Stephenson: .... Proposals to change or review a topic early can be submitted via the UK NSC’s annual call, which will open in July 2024. At present, there are no plans to expand national services in community pharmacy beyond the recently introduced Pharmacy First service.
Diana R. Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing an NHS school of pharmacy in Hull.
James Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pharmacies in Halesowen & Rowley Regis constituency have signed up for Pharmacy First.
Andrew Slaughter: ...clinics have seen about a 30% real-terms funding cut over the last few years, so will the Minister either increase the resources available to clinics or increase the number of outlets, such as pharmacies, from which PrEP can be obtained? That is where the logjam is occurring.
Anna Firth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether prescriptions obtained from a pharmacy are charged as a private patients.
Rishi Sunak: ...lectures about getting Britain from a man who thought it was right to defend terrorists. What we are doing is building a brighter future for our country: just last week, we expanded healthcare in pharmacies; today, we are expanding dental care; and this week, we are helping millions with the cost of living and, most importantly, cutting national insurance. That is all while the Labour...
Lord Markham: ...boy does she need those antibiotics. Some of the things I have started to see in terms of technology, which is relevant to the question of complexity, include point-of-care devices in surgeries or pharmacies that can detect a UTI very quickly, so that you then know you can give a prescription for antibiotics. That is what we see in terms of the direction of travel.
Lord Markham: ...doctor meaning that we missed things such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol. To tackle the problem urgently, as the noble Baroness suggests, we have put 7,500 blood pressure checkers in pharmacies. They have done 2 million checks to date. We have sent 270,000 blood pressure monitors to houses and have instigated mid-life NHS health checks to look specifically at early heart...
Lord Markham: In September 2023, we completed two consultations to amend the Human Medicines Regulations to enable dental therapists, dental hygienists and pharmacy technicians to supply and administer medicines without the need for a prescription. We aim to publish the consultation response in the next few weeks. In December 2023, the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 were amended to enable independent...
Vaughan Gething: Contract reform in community pharmacy, dentistry and optometry is delivering additional access to primary care services across Wales. New access standards have been successfully introduced in GP surgeries, in agreement with the profession.
Andrea Leadsom: ...how we will support general practices (GPs), including in rural areas, by empowering patients to manage their own health, implementing the Modern General Practice Access model, expanding community pharmacy services, and cutting bureaucracy to reduce workload. We acknowledge that some areas of the country are experiencing recruitment and retention issues with regard to National Health...
Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have been prescribed Mefloquine by pharmacies under a contract with his Department since 2017.
Vicky Ford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is adequate pharmacy provision.
Amy Callaghan: ...me during the four months I spent at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow back in 2020 and who care for my constituents in East Dunbartonshire in our many care homes, GP practices, pharmacies and hospitals. This debate discusses a critical aspect of an issue that I continue to raise time and again: NHS workforce shortages. The Government’s latest draconian plan to curtail...
