The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7407 p5
1 July 2006

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Pharmacy voice joins White Paper working group on ways to deliver care outside hospitals?

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has been invited to be part of a Government working group charged with demonstrating how health care can be provided closer to home.

The group was launched in February and originally comprised representatives from several royal medical colleges, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing and the NHS Confederation. Hemant Patel, the Society’s President, wrote to health minister Lord Warner requesting that the profession have an input into the project. Lord Warner has now agreed that the Society should be part of the working group.

Commenting on the Society’s inclusion, Mr Patel said: “It is important that pharmacists are fully engaged with this process and through the Society the profession will now be able to make an important contribution to the work of the new group.”

The group will define models of care in six specialties

• ear nose and throat
• trauma and orthopaedics
• dermatology
• urology
• gynaecology
• general surgery