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Choosing health through pharmacy
- Ministerial Foreword
- Annex 1: Overview of the New Contractual Framework for Community Pharmacy
- Annex 3: Overview of Pharmacy with Reference to Public Health
- Annex 4: Summary of the Evidence for the Contribution of Pharmacy to Public Health
- Annex 5: Stakeholder Involvement in Development of the Strategy
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 1: Executive summary
- Chapter 2: Introduction
- Chapter 3: Releasing the Potential of Pharmacy for Health Improvement
- Chapter 4: Tackling Health Priorities
- Chapter 5: Improving the Health of People with Long-Term Conditions
- Chapter 6: Making It Happen: national and local delivery
- Annex 2: Overview of public health with reference to pharmacy
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Ministerial Foreword
Rosie Winterton
In Choosing Health, published last November, the Government set out a programme of action to provide more of the opportunities, support and information people want to enable them to improve their health.
As part of this programme, we also made a commitment to publish a strategy for pharmaceutical public health in 2005 which will expand the contribution that pharmacists, their staff and the premises in which they work can make to improving health and reducing health inequalities.
Pharmacists work at the heart of the communities they serve and they enjoy the confidence of the public. Every day, they support self care and provide health messages, advice and services in areas such as diet, physical activity, stop smoking and sexual health.
Melanie Johnson
And one of pharmacy's strengths is the ability to communicate health messages to people who are well, in addition to the sick. We are pleased to be able to recognise this important work, and to thank the many people who have been involved in developing this strategy.
We want to build on pharmacy's strengths, to develop and further extend health improvement services, working closely with the wider public health team and expanding their role as advocates for health. This strategy will enable pharmacists and their staff to make better use of their skills, and it will open up opportunities for pharmacy to make a bigger difference to improving the health of people in England.
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