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2/15/2012
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Leading GP commissioner warns pharmacy to "wake up" at Sigma Conference
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Dr Lisa Silver, chief executive of the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
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Few pharmacists are actively getting involved in the construction of Clinical Commissioning Groups in Oxfordshire, Dr Lisa Silver, chief executive of the area’s Clinical Commissioning Group, told the Sigma conference in Thailand.
In a thinly-veiled warning to pharmacists in her area, and indeed to those who have failed to get involved across the country, Dr Silver told them to “wake up” or face being side-lined. “If I was a pharmacist, I would want to know all about this stuff because I wouldn’t want to be left on the side-line,” she said.
“Our physios are getting involved in it, the dietrists, other people are getting involved and coming to us. I don’t wish to point the finger but we don’t have many pharmacists coming to us and we have tried to involve pharmacy locally.
“The LMC and LPC are working together on this matter and I’m struggling, as a GP commissioner, to locally get the pharmacists involved. I would say to you guys, ‘listen, wake up. There’s a big agenda going on here and we don’t sense your involvement.
“I don’t doubt some of you are involved in some areas but you need to get more involved because you guys are integral to the way services are delivered in primary care."
Dr Silver expressed her desire to see a shared patient record between GPs and pharmacy to help with the process of collaboration between the two professions as the reforms take hold. “The one thing we lack in this country is a shared patient care record. You guys can’t see my records and I can’t see your records,” she said.
“You decide the ethics of it and whether that’s acceptable to patients but the lack of a shared patient care record is extremely difficult for you guys because all you have is the medicines. “You might have other stuff you put on there but you don’t have all the details. Trying to deliver services without that shared patient care record must be extraordinarily difficult."
Dr Silver also expressed her astonishment that pharmacy has allowed the proliferation of 100-hour pharmacies. “If that happened in GP land the furore from the GPs would be palpable,” she said. “I just wonder how your negotiators have allowed that to happen because if a GP said ‘I’m going to open a 100-hour GP practice right next door to you Lisa, the fuss would be palpable.
“But somehow, this has happened to pharmacy and it must be extraordinarily disruptive. You want to set up a business and suddenly,it’s all pulled from under your feet.”
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