Health managers’ scant regard for pharmacy services
Senior health service managers in London have been
found to be dismissive of community pharmacy as it currently operates.
Interviews with chief executives and staff of 25
primary care organisations in London by Professor David Taylor, professor
of pharmaceutical public health policy at the School of Pharmacy, University
of London, elicited such comments about community pharmacy as: “It’s dead,
but doesn’t know it yet” and “We have thought about centralised dispensing
so that in future prescriptions will be delivered made up to pharmacies
or directly to surgeries and patients’ homes and community pharmacists
will have to concentrate more on communicating with patients.”
However, there was growing awareness that primary
care trusts would need to be more proactive about community pharmacy.
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