Future for community pharmacy
There has been several papers where pharmacy will be integrated into the system and will be part of the same pathway so there is an opportunity to help prevent ill health and the provision of healthy living advice to support people to live longer:
The new pharmacy contract highlights the need to put prevention at the heart of the NHS.
HLP is an opportunity to demonstrate how pharmacy can play an important role in preventing ill health and supporting people to take a responsibility towards their own health and wellbeing. HLP is an essential requirement for community pharmacy.