The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7353 p717
11 June 2005

Society summary

MSP advises pharmacists to be proactive in their dealings with the Scottish Parliament

Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Scottish Department of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on 6 June, Scottish Nationalist MSP Roseanna Cunningham advised pharmacists to be proactive in their dealings with the Scottish Parliament.

Ms Cunningham, who chairs the parliamentary Health and Community Care Committee, said that the profession should not confine its vigilance to her committee but should carefully watch parliamentary activities across all the committees to ensure that its voice was heard and that legislation did not slip through unnoticed. MSPs could not be expected to grasp all the potential implications of their actions without input from those affected.

Ms Cunningham also said that attention to the troubled NHS 24 was urgently needed, although she doubted whether it was “fixable”.