Commenting on Wes Streeting being appointed as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Malcolm Harrison Chief Executive of the CCA said:
“We congratulate Wes Streeting on his appointment as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
We are encouraged by Mr. Streeting’s plans for primary care reform and welcome further detail on plans to create a ‘Community Pharmacist Prescribing Service’ and the granting of prescribing rights to pharmacists.
Community pharmacy is absolutely integral to realising the Secretary of State’s vision for primary care – whether that’s the return of the ‘family doctor’, embedding a greater focus on prevention in the NHS, or delivering more and more care closer to people’s homes.
The sector is ready and willing to delivering this vision but this can only be done if there is adequate funding to ensure that patients can continue to access the medicines they need. Moreover, pharmacies can do so much more to free up GP capacity, particularly through the expansion of Pharmacy First – but this is only possible through additional investment”