The positive pharmacy care law

"Our study shows that the majority of the population can access a community pharmacy within 20 min walk and crucially, access is greater in areas of highest deprivation—a positive pharmacy care law."

The positive pharmacy care law: an area-level analysis of the relationship between community pharmacy distribution, urbanity and social deprivation in England
A Todd, A Copeland, A Husband, A Kasim, C Bambra
BMJ Open, 2014;4:e005764

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Successful provision of NHS Health checks

"This paper reports specifically on the findings from the evaluation in respect of the setting up of Healthy Heart Checks in community pharmacies and aims to offer some lessons for other service settings where this option is seen as a way of providing low threshold services which will minimise inequalities in intervention uptake."

Making a success of providing NHS Health Checks in community pharmacies across the Tees Valley: a qualitative study
RJ McNaughton, NTA Oswald, JS Schucksmith, PJ Heywood, PS Watson
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:222

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