Pharmacists’ public health role underlined at party conference
Pharmacists’ role in engaging the public about health matters
has been highlighted in meetings at the Liberal Democrats’ autumn
conference in Blackpool this week.
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Community pharmacy has an important role to play in terms of getting
advice to teenagers about sexual health,” Steve Webb MP, the Liberal
Democrat shadow health secretary, said. In addition, Baroness Barker,
the Liberal Democrat spokesperson in the House of Lords, argued that
community pharmacists can play an important part in communicating health
matters to members of ethnic minorities.
This year, the Company Chemists Association, the National Pharmacy Association,
the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society have joined together to promote the role of community pharmacy
at the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat conferences.
The organisations invited local community pharmacists Raymond Lee, Liz
Stafford, Linda Bracewell and Deborah Beech to the Liberal Democrat conference
to explain pharmacists’ new roles to those attending. Local pharmacists
will also be invited to the Conservative and Labour conferences, Melanie
Woodnick, the PSNC’s public affairs officer, said. |
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