Welsh minister welcomes pharmacy’s contribution to facing health challenges
At a pre-dinner reception, Mair Davies and Peter Higson, chief executive
of Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, inspect posters showing examples
of practice development |
Pharmacy’s contribution to meeting health care challenges in Wales since devolution was welcomed by a Welsh Assembly minister at the annual dinner of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Welsh Executive in Cardiff on 12 October.
John Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, said that if
the NHS in Wales was to be more responsive to needs and better equipped to face
future challenges, it needed the full involvement of all. Acknowledging the input
of the health professional organisations in Wales, he added: “Your involvement
since devolution has been invaluable to ministers, officials and the people of
Wales who will benefit from changes already made and those to come.”
The minister was responding to an address by the chairman of the Welsh Executive,
Mair Davies, who called on guests from a range of health professional, political
and patients’ groups throughout Wales to engage with the Society’s
ongoing devolution review and help inform its final recommendations.
She said: “The Society has demonstrated its commitment to devolution by
continuing to invest in growth of staff and other resources here in Wales. We
need to ensure that we are fully equipped to engage with the changing face of
the delivery of health and social care in Wales, and to fully address the Welsh
NHS agenda.”
The theme of the dinner was a celebration of the way health organisations in
Wales have responded to devolution. The 45 guests were from various pharmacy,
voluntary, health and social care organisations in Wales. The director of NHS
Wales, Ann Lloyd, was also present.
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