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Pharmacy in England: building on strengths - delivering the future
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Document type:White paper
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Author:Department of Health
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Published date:3 April 2008
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Product number:ISBN 9780101734127
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Gateway reference:9687
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Series number:Cm7341
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Copyright holder:Crown
This White Paper sets out a vision for building on the strengths of pharmacy, using that capacity and capability to deliver further improvements in pharmaceutical services over the coming years as part of an overall strategy to ensure safe, effective, fairer and more personalised patient care.
It includes the Government’s response to the Review of NHS Pharmaceutical Contractual Arrangements conducted by Anne Galbraith, former chair of the Prescription Pricing Authority, which the Government commissioned in 2007 (published below). It also considers as appropriate views put forward by the All Party Pharmacy Group’s report The Future of Pharmacy (published in 2007) and considers the complementary but important work of dispensing doctors and appliance contractors.
Video introduction to the White Paper
Dr Keith Ridge presents an overview of the Pharmacy White Paper.
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Impact assessments
- Download impact assessments - introduction, general and equality impact assessments (PDF, 184K)
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- Download Initial impact assessment: permitting dispensing doctors to sell over-the-counter medicines (PDF, 4196K)
- Download partial impact assessment of proposals to expand the provision of minor ailment services (PDF, 1643K)
- Download partial impact assessment of proposals to expand the provision of support for people newly diagnosed with long term conditions (PDF, 5979K)
- Impact assessment of proposals to reform 'market entry' based on pharmaceutical needs assessments
Community pharmacy use - quantitative and qualitative research: market research report
This report combines a piece of quantitative research exploring community pharmacy usage conducted by Continental Research, and a piece of qualitative research designed to add detail to the quantitative findings conducted by Solutions Research. Pages 1 – 16 and the appendices relate to the quantitative study and pages 18-21 relate to the qualitative study.
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