Clincal management. Change the scrip.
The new pharmacy contract awards pharmacists for range and quality of services, not volume of medicines dispensed. Pharmacists' cross-area access to patients makes them well placed to take a lead role in the management of long-term conditions. Funding may be a barrier to development under the new contract, as money for developing local enhanced services must come from existing primary care trust budgets.
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