The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7394 p376
1 April 2006

This article
Reprint   Photocopy

  Acrobat Reader

News summary

Health trainers scheme has begun to be rolled out nationally

National roll out of the NHS health trainers scheme has begun, public health minister Caroline Flint announced last week.

By early 2007, about 1,200 trainers will be in place to give support to people in their local community to improve their health, she said. “Choosing health through pharmacy” suggested that pharmacies could be used as a setting where health trainers are available and that pharmacists and their staff could have a role in supporting health trainers (PJ, 20 August 2005, p217).