Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:05 pm on 9 November 2016.
I’d just like to pick up on the point made by Nick Ramsay because it’s completely unacceptable that a third of all hospital readmissions are due to medicine errors. I want to probe a little bit further on the specific point that when it’s been decided that somebody is ready to leave hospital, why is it not possible for them to then pick up the prescription that they may have been prescribed from their community pharmacist, rather than having to wait for it to be dispensed by the hospital? Because that would then enable them to get out of hospital quicker, making them get well quicker, and making the bed available for somebody else.