Pharmacists included in dermatology group
David Colin-Thomé |
Pharmacists will be included in a Department of Health dermatology group looking at providing care closer to home, David Colin-Thomé, clinical director for primary care at the Department of Health, revealed at an All-Party Pharmacy Group meeting this week.
In response to a complaint that pharmacy has been excluded from areas
where it could have a real impact — including the DoH’s Care
Closer to Home Demonstration Group (CCHDG) set up last month — Dr
Colin-Thomé said the issue had been raised with him and that pharmacy
would now be included in the dermatology section of the CCHDG.
Dr Colin-Thomé also launched the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s
document and resource pack on self care at the meeting.
“If there’s one vehicle to reshape our whole concept of how health
care is delivered it is around long-term conditions.” he said. “This
is how you in the pharmacy world can have such a huge impact — not
just on medication use, but on actual review of people with long-term
conditions,” he said.
Such pharmacy-based services can be particularly effective in areas where
prevalence of long-term conditions is high and primary care trusts are
struggling, he added. “It is by saying ‘we can offer these
models of care in an overstretched service’ that there is a huge
opportunity,” he said.
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