Sore Throat Test-and-treat Service

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:57 pm on 25 September 2019.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 2:57, 25 September 2019

I'm genuinely pleased on those occasions when even opposition Members should commend an action of the Welsh Government, and I do think this is a good scheme. I notice in the August edition of 'Clinical Pharmacist' the scheme is evaluated and praised and it does bring genuine innovation and relief. For many years, we've been trying to get people with minor ailments to seek the advice of a pharmacist—lower back pain, insomnia. There are a whole range of things where your first point of contact is often a pharmacist. So, I do hope that we will be seeing that continue. But it is a very promising scheme, so I do commend it.