The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7208 p121
27 July 2002

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Welsh pharmacy strategy on hold until September

Publication of a consultation document, the Welsh pharmacy strategy, is now expected to be in September. However, no date has yet been set.

The consultation document, previously referred to in the National Assembly for Wales as a draft pharmacy strategy, had been expected to be published by the end of this month (PJ, 6 July, p3). The finished strategy will shape the future of pharmacy in Wales over the next 10 years, the assembly has been told.

Carwen Wynne Howells, chief pharmaceutical adviser to the National Assembly for Wales, told The Journal that publication of the document had been delayed because of the need to co-ordinate the release of a number of overlapping documents which are under development. These include two scoping documents, one for all therapy professions and one for nursing and midwifery, and three strategies for contractor professions — dentistry, optometry and pharmacy.

Phil Parry, chairman of Community Pharmacy Wales, commented: "We know that there are good reasons why it has not been published yet and we are eagerly awaiting it."

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