Central role in primary care remains a long way off

摘要

There is a long way to go before a more central role in primary care is created for community pharmacists in England.So said Under-Secretary of State for Care Services Ivan Lewis in a Parliamentary debate last week.Responding to a Westminster Hall debate on primary care trusts,Mr Lewis said:"I suspect that if we looked throughout the country,we would find there was a patchiness - the new word - in the extent to which PCTs put the role of community pharmacists at the centre of their planning and commissioning.I agree that we should think far more seriously about it."