The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7250 p710
24 May 2003

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Keep lobbying MPs, NPA urges members

Community pharmacists in England should continue to lobby Members of Parliament over control of entry, the National Pharmaceutical Association says.

The NPA has written to all its members in England encouraging them to keep up the momentum of local lobbying activities. It wants them to write again to their local MPs warning that if the Government's proposed "balanced package of measures" involves anything other than a flexing of the current control of entry regulations, it will not be in the best interests of their constituents or local pharmacy services.

NPA members are being sent a guide to lobbying MPs on the matter. The key point it stresses is that "local problems need local solutions". Problems should be solved by discussions between local pharmaceutical committees and primary care trusts.