Community pharmacies should become public health centres where people can access NHS health checks, preventive services and effective treatments for diabetes, the School of Pharmacy at the University of London has said.
A new report outlines a wide range of changes that, it says, would defuse the diabetes time bomb threatening to reduce life expectancy.
To download the report, visit www.pharmacy.ac.uk
An “integrated care provider” of a range of services including core general practice is due to be established in a major new housing development.
Clinical commissioning groups could face renewed pressure to fund an expensive thyroid drug under NHS England revised guidance, due to be published shortly.
Patient groups have called NHS England “unbelievably arrogant” for failing to listen to patients during drug funding reviews.
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