BUILDING BRIDGES CAMPAIGN
C+D launches the Building Bridges campaign to showcase to MPs the vital services offered by their local pharmacy
Our aims
1. To get as many MPs in the UK as possible to visit their local pharmacy
2. To put readers in touch with MPs and facilitate visits
3. To brief pharmacists on the hot topics to discuss with MPs
4. Pictures of every MP pharmacy visit will feature in C+D's hall of fame at www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/buildingbridges
5. To interview MPs after each visit to find out what they learnt
6. To produce a dossier of evidence from the visits and deliver it to 10 Downing Street
What can we achieve together?
- Raise MPs' awareness of what pharmacists can do
- Help pharmacists build political contacts
C+D has launched a campaign to get MPs to visit pharmacies in a bid to showcase your potential to those in power.
Building Bridges will give pharmacists the platform to show MPs the vital health services they offer patients.
The campaign aims to challenge a lack of understanding among many MPs about pharmacy. Pharmacists are the healthcare experts at the heart of communities across the UK. Building Bridges will champion the role they play in tackling the big health issues facing the NHS.
Pharmacists have launched pioneering services to help treat diseases such as diabetes, obesity and chlamydia. However, a historical failure to lobby MPs means much of this ground breaking work goes unseen and unsupported.
Building Bridges is not about moaning to your MP over PCT debts, category M cuts or rising workload. It is a golden opportunity to give MPs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland a glimpse of pharmacy's promise.
Over the coming months we will build a dossier of evidence from the visits and present the case for pharmacy to 10 Downing Street later this year. Please support the campaign by emailing us your details. Together we can help pharmacy build a bridge to a better future.
