Pharmacy should be represented in new NHS structures, say primary care bodies
A letter written to the parliamentary committee scrutinising the Health and Care Bill calls on new 'integrated care boards' to include formalised roles for all types of primary care professions, not just GPs.
Simon Dukes, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, said it was “important that these new local systems recognise the critical role played by pharmacies and the whole of primary care”
Jeff Gilbert
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has joined other primary care bodies in calling for pharmacists and other primary healthcare professionals to be represented on integrated care boards (ICBs).
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