Last week (July 3), the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) revealed its 10-year plan for the NHS in England.
The plan included some 21 references to community pharmacies and pharmacists – but what does it actually say about how the sector will change over the next decade?
The main headlines include:
News
- DH to launch pharmacist-staffed ‘neighbourhood health services’
- IN FULL: Pharmacy to ‘transition’ from dispensing to clinical services by 2030
- DH to ‘scale’ use of robotic dispensing to deliver ‘care with unprecedented precision’
- Pharmacies to deliver HPV catch-up jabs from next year
- NHS App AI tool to direct patients to pharmacies by 2028
- PM hints at ‘innovative’ pharmacy weight loss jab service rollout
- Pharmacy studies to ‘shape’ new genomics service rollout
- DH to launch Single National Formulary within two years
- DH to roll out 42 neighbourhood health hubs from September
- Pharmacists to ‘support’ fit note patients back into work
- Boots tipped to ‘work with’ neighbourhood health hubs
Opinion
- Pharmacy bodies react to Streeting’s 10-year plan
- ‘You call it neighbourhood healthcare. We call it a Tuesday’
- ‘Large delta’ between DH ambition and reality, warns Blair Institute
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