Pharmacies at the heart of Labour’s healthcare reform – Stephen Kinnock

Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock highlighted the role of community pharmacies in the Labour government’s proposed healthcare reform during his speech at
the 24th annual Pharmacy Business Awards on Wednesday.

He outlined the government’s vision for three strategic shifts: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention.

Emphasising the crucial role that community pharmacies will play in achieving these changes, he said: “Pharmacies are based in, and recruit from, and are part
of their communities, and we have to put you right at the heart of those three shifts if we are to deliver the change that our country so desperately needs.”

Kinnock also acknowledged the contribution of pharmacies in safeguarding the nation’s health.

He stated: “I’ve already heard, just in the short time that I’ve been in government since 4 July, of many examples of just how much patients and communities rely
on your services and the lengths to which you go to deliver care.”