Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:02 pm on 9 November 2016.
Cabinet Secretary, community pharmacies have a big role to play in delivering care in the right place at the right time, as you just talked about. I had the chance, recently, to visit a Lloyds Pharmacy in my constituency. I was struck by the disjoint between hospitals and community pharmacists when it comes to discharge. Although discharge medicine reviews do happen, I understand that 30 per cent of hospital readmissions are down to medicine errors. Is this an area the Cabinet Secretary will be looking at in the current negotiations he’s having with Community Pharmacy Wales around a new pharmacy contract for Wales?