Community Pharmacy- helping provide better quality and resilient urgent care

November 30, 2014

Both our urgent care system and general practitioners (GPs) are more stretched than ever before. In order to deliver our vision of “high quality care for all, now and forfuture generations” we need to transform the way we deliver services. Simon Stevens outlined recently in his Five Year Forward View how we need to make far greater use of pharmacists; in prevention and support for healthy living; support to self-care for minor ailments and long term conditions; medication review in care homes and as part of more integrated local care models.

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