Pharmacy First

Michael Fabricant Excerpts
Wednesday 31st January 2024

(3 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrea Leadsom Portrait Dame Andrea Leadsom
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There will be a big communications plan, which I am happy to share with my hon. Friend. Well over 100 community pharmacies in his area have signed up to Pharmacy First, which is brilliant news. It is incumbent on us all—and the purpose of the statement—to ensure that our constituents know about this excellent new service.

Michael Fabricant Portrait Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)
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Although my right hon. Friend and I share a common scepticism of the sclerotic state of the European Union, there are lessons to be learned from Europe. I am glad to see that, like France, we are now respecting community pharmacies. However, I have one specific question. In her statement, she said that one thing on which the pharmacy can act is female urinary tract infections. Why not male?