.compharmacyni calls for pharmacists to have more powers to prescribe some medicines in Northern Ireland
Pharmacists in Northern Ireland have called for new powers enabling them to prescribe some medicines for patients here.Patients there will soon be able to use high street pharmacies for some common prescription drugs.Gerard Greene, chief executive of Community Pharmacy NI told"We are certain that similar arrangements for Northern Ireland would be incredibly beneficial," he said.
"For this to happen, however, there must be a stabilisation of community pharmacy funding, with the systemic underfunding of the network addressed urgently. Community pharmacists also need confidence that they operate on a solid foundation." In light of the announcement in England, he said it was now even more important that local patients here were not disadvantaged and that the same services were also available in Northern Ireland.
"There is much potential, but a long way to go. We want to work with the Department of Health to turn all of this into reality."by shifting some of the work to other parts of the health service.
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