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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Nov 2016
Community Pharmacies

"The hon. Lady makes an incredibly important point. People who go into a community pharmacy today will see a special treatment room where they can get phlebotomy, advice on blood pressure and all sorts of other things. Is it not perverse, cruel and utterly irrational to say to a group …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2016
Community Pharmacies

"Those of us who wish the Minister well would probably best describe his performance at the Dispatch Box this afternoon as “courageous”. I feel that he has been sold a hospital pass on this one. He is responsible for a policy that lurches from the inchoate to the indefensible; that …..."
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Written Question
Pharmacy
Tuesday 7th June 2016

Asked by: Stephen Pound (Labour - Ealing North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will re-open the consultation on pharmacy dispensing models and displaying prices on medicines that closed on 17 May 2016 in order to allow respondents to take into account revised information on the safety profile of hub and spoke dispensing models.

Answered by Alistair Burt

The consultation on changes to medicines legislation including on ‘hub and spoke’ dispensing did not rely on any specific safety profile of hub and spoke dispensing. Instead, the consultation document specifically asked consultees to provide evidence on the issue. Nevertheless, the responses to the consultation have raised issues around removing the bar on ‘hub and spoke’ dispensing between retail pharmacies that are not part of the same business that the Department would like to explore in more detail with stakeholders’ representatives before progressing any legislation. It does not now envisage changes to the legislation on this issue commencing on 1 October 2016.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Community Pharmacies

"As ever, it is a pleasure to serve beneath your firm but benevolent eye, Mr Streeter. I congratulate the hon. Member for St Ives (Derek Thomas) on bringing this important, relevant and timely matter before us. It is similar to an Adjournment debate I secured in the previous Parliament, to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Community Pharmacies

"Not for the first time in my life, I have been corrected by my right hon. Friend. When I referred to a miracle on the high street, I was referring to the contrast between the traditional chemist that we have known in the past and the modern community pharmacist. To …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Community Pharmacies

"On the subject of changes, and bearing in mind that the increase in prescribing is about 2.5% per annum, does the hon. Gentleman honestly believe that the Government’s proposal for a hub-and-spoke prescribing model, breaking the link between the patient and the pharmacist, represents value for money, or even sanity?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"11. What assessment he has made of the potential effects on public health of his Department’s proposals on the future of community pharmacies...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am very grateful to the Minister for that answer. There is always a place for him in our team next year, although we are running trials in the next few weeks.

Despite the generosity of the Minister’s response, does he not accept that community pharmacies are of great and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 11 Jan 2016
NHS Bursary

"I am in no way being critical of the hon. Gentleman, who deserves a great deal of credit for what he has done, but does he agree that instead of using the expression “the health industry”, it might be better to say “the health profession”?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 11 Jan 2016
NHS Bursary

"The hon. Gentleman is being extremely generous. I am sure that I am not the only person to congratulate him on bringing this extremely important matter before the House. On the basis of my 10 years’ experience working at Middlesex hospital, may I say that nurses are in an exceptionally …..."
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