Speaking at the NHS Confederation annual conference in the ACC Liverpool, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England hinted there will be more involvement of pharmacies in primary care, in the near future.
Speaking at the NHS Confederation annual conference in the ACC Liverpool, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England hinted there will be more involvement of pharmacies in primary care, in the near future.
“We've got to get more serious about multi-disciplinary working in primary care, including pharmacists, and we're going to be saying more about that quite soon.”
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society commented: "We have been delighted by the response Simon Stephens and colleagues at NHS England have given to our joint campaign with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to make the most of the expertise and capacity that pharmacists can provide to primary care. We will be working with the profession to make sure we play our part in implementing the vision described in the Five Year Forward View."
“We have oversubscribed GP vocational training in some parts of the country, in other parts of the country, east of England and east Midlands, we have spots going vacant… If we carry on that way we are just going to reproduce what we've seen in the last decade… We've got to do a whole range of things on recruitment, retention and returners in general.”
Similarly, earlier at the conference today Rob Webster, chief executive of NHS Confederation, said that he thought integration was “critical”.
Stevens urged NHS leaders to: "Rattle the cage and advocate something different.”
He said: “This is not all about the money. It is all about the kind of healthcare system we want. We need to fundamentally redesign care."