Siân Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) available (a) in pharmacies and (b) from an online service.
Uma Kumaran: ...rather than on wards. This is the broken NHS that we have inherited from the Conservatives. Will the Minister ask her Department to look at capacity issues at those hospitals and at how community pharmacy prescribing services may be used to alleviate some of the pressures?
Peter Prinsley: .... There are villages in my constituency that have two buses a day during the school term and no buses at all in the school holidays. How does anyone without a car get to the GP surgery or to the pharmacy in the nearby town? Very few surgeons are ever elected to Parliament and I will bring my experience of 42 years as an NHS doctor to this place to do something to help mend a service that...
Ben Coleman: ...the hospitals, under instruction from the Government, were discharging residents without testing and would not listen to us and would not stop. We had to fight to get vaccination in our local pharmacies, and we had to fight to establish a local test and trace system, which then reached 99% of people when the Government were only reaching 62%. Does my right hon. Friend agree that further...
Munira Wilson: It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Speaker, and I congratulate the Leader of the House on her appointment. The recent closures of two Boots pharmacies in Hampton in my constituency came amid hundreds of other community pharmacy closures across England, driven largely by the financial pressures on community pharmacies from an outdated pharmacy contract, coupled with impenetrable...
Mike Nesbitt: ...emergency planning and emergency response and the fact that both Health Departments will work collaboratively to seek ways to cooperate further on emergency planning and emergency response; the pharmacy update, particularly the information regarding the upcoming all-island medication safety conference; and the update on joint funding applications under the PEACE PLUS programme. During the...
Steve Aiken: ...times position remains wholly unacceptable, and our health workers are operating under huge pressure. Similarly, major demands remain on services such as primary care, social care, dental and pharmacy. It might seem easy to say that our health service is sliding in only one direction and that turning it around is beyond us, but neither I nor my party share that view. Even though the likes...
Jeremy Balfour: ...Parliament and its committees to give appropriate scrutiny to what would be a fairly major change in the legislation. There are more than 900 GP surgeries in Scotland and more than 1,200 pharmacies, the vast majority of which are on our high streets. If the definition of “protected premises” was expanded, that could, in theory, shut down every one of them, and it would stop...
Jenni Minto: ...the need for people to access pain relief medicines against the dangers for vulnerable individuals to purchase, on impulse, excessive quantities of any single analgesic. A community pharmacy may sell larger packs under the supervision of a pharmacist; it is illegal to sell more than 100 tablets or capsules of either paracetamol or aspirin in any one retail transaction.
Kenneth Gibson: The Tories have presided over the closure of 450 surgeries, more than 1,000 pharmacies—a third of the total—longer waiting lists and strikes by junior doctors and nurses, with 40 promised new hospitals unbuilt over the past decade in England. Does the Deputy First Minister agree that the evidence is clear that Scotland’s NHS, with all its challenges, is in better shape for...
Sandesh Gulhane: ...that practices can handle the volume of demand and carry out the types of clinical interventions that can safely and practically be delivered in the community. That includes backing our community pharmacies, optometrists, audiology services, physiotherapists and link workers, all of whom have expertise that can support community-based care. That should have happened under the GP contract,...
Patsy McGlone: ...: May God have mercy on his soul.] First, Minister, I convey my heartiest congratulations on your appointment. Let us hope that it is a productive and fruitful one. Returning to community pharmacy, will you pledge to look at the issue of clawback by the Department from community pharmacists? That is one issue that has been raised time and again with me by local community pharmacists as...
Mike Nesbitt: .... That will, again, support increased patient safety by improving patient access to safety information that is included in a medicine's original packaging. These provisions will also help community pharmacies to streamline how they manage workload by enabling greater use of automation in the dispensing process and releasing capacity in pharmacy teams to undertake patient-centred services...
Danny Donnelly: What is the Minister doing about community pharmacies? Twelve community pharmacies have closed in the past year due to financial pressures. It is vital that people are able to receive medication across Northern Ireland. I would like to hear the Minister's plans for community pharmacies, but I appreciate that he is only in the role a couple of days. As a Member of the Health Committee, I look...
Brian Whittle: ...Ayrshire and Arran, which is obviously under extreme pressure, it said that there is now a critical need for an information technology system that communicates across primary and secondary care and pharmacy, as well as across NHS boards. Does the cabinet secretary recognise the urgency of that problem and that addressing it is a crucial first step in tackling the crisis in the NHS? If so,...
