Meeting the needs of a modern health service: can pharmacy deliver?

摘要

Dr JIM SMITH, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, explained that this was a time of great change for pharmacists, the national Health Service and for himself. A stream of Department of Health publications had followed the NHS plan, which was now two years old; progress was being made quite steadily with implementing the various directives. The Government was looking most seriously at public private partnerships (PPP) to help deliver the plan and Dr Smith cited community pharmacy as a perfect example of a PPP, which delivered successfully.