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Geographically large, Do not mourn the passing with our RAMP UP campaign;
but widely dispersed, of NHS England. Instead, that stands for: Rural Access
remote, rural and coastal please write to your MP to Medicines and Pharmacy
communities require and urge them to ensure Services Under Pressure.
bespoke solutions and that remote/rural/coastal
need to be ‘rural proofed.’ dispensing practices remain https://www.
The concept of ‘rural an essential part of the local dispensingdoctor.org/about-
proofing’ has been around community. If dispensing the-dda/dda-political-
for twenty years but is at a loss is not resolved, it lobby-documents/
completely absent from could not only see the end of
the NHS. The Dispensing the dispensary, but possibly The DDA’s annual conference
Doctors’ Association (DDA) the rest of the practice. takes place on 24/25th
has requested that the You are probably the last September at a new venue,
Department of Health and public service left in your the National Conference
Social Care (DHSC) rural community. Does your MP Centre Birmingham B92 0EJ.
proofs the GP contract and want you to go the same I am reliably informed that
wider primary care policy way as the post offices and the programme is already
in future. banks? complete. The last three
Please conferences have been
None of this is rocket help us so successful that we need
science. Staffing costs are a bigger venue this year.
greater, due to there being That is down to you and your
a dispensary in lieu of a continuing support for the
pharmacy. Poor broadband DDA. Thank you. We could
and mobile signals inhibit not do any of it without
the provision of any kind of you. As ever, my thanks
a ‘digital first’ service. No to our friends at PSUK for
public transport means that exhibiting and supporting
patients are dependent on dispensing doctors.
cars to travel to and from
the surgery. The practice
populations tend to be
made up of older
people, whose need
is greater. All the information you need
can be found here:
There is also the
growing spectre https://www.
of dispensing at a dispensingdoctor.org/
loss. Pharmacies conference/
have been closing
at an alarming
rate. Dispensing
practices are
purchasing drugs
in the same
marketplace. Yet, Matthew Isom
the DHSC’s changes
to the system of DDA CEO
drug reimbursement
have not been applied
to the dispensing doctor
contract. Why? NHS
England didn’t think it
was important enough or
couldn’t be bothered.
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