Posts Tagged ‘Community-Pharmacy’

According to the latest NHS stop smoking figures, pharmacies continue to have the lowest stop smoking rates among NHS providers in England.

From April to September 2010 there was a 44% successful quit rate among pharmacy patients. Quit rates were higher among other providers such as hospitals wards and prisons, with military bases coming out on top at 58%.

However the overall number of successful quitters using pharmacies increased to 4,200 a month between April and September. This report also showed that pharmacies helped over 25,000 people to quit in the 6 months leading to September 2010.

As a pharmacist, how do you feel about these figures? Do you feel that as a pharmacy you are reaching out to a harder to reach patient based compared to such providers as hospital wards and prison cells? Do you feel that this then could make a difference to the overall figure for pharmacies?

Please let Flame Health know your thoughts.

Community Pharmacy Wales has estimated that community pharmacies in Wales could save the NHS £95 million a year if services such as a national minor aliments scheme were rolled out effectively.

It urged the Welsh Assembly Government to make the commitment needed to deliver the changes. 

Savings could come from 4 key areas: better medicine management, rolling out a national minor ailments scheme, reconciling patients’ medicines on discharge from hospital and a targeted medicines waste scheme.