Proposals for a single national formulary (SNF) for medicines in the NHS 10-Year Plan need a cost-benefit analysis.\r\n\r\nThat’s the view of Dr Steve Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK).\r\n\r\nThe Government outlined plans to move to an SNF within the next two years in its NHS 10-Year Plan.\r\n\r\nIt says the move aims to \u2018drive rapid and equitable adoption of the most clinically and cost-effective innovations\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Taylor, speaking to Pulse, said: \u201cHaving an SNF seems like a good idea until you factor in shortages, compliance, and choice of prescriber and patient.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf it is automated, with the option for pharmacists to switch when availability is a problem, then it might work. It is important that this is in place first.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe UK already has some of the cheapest costs in terms of medication and it would be important to see the cost benefit analysis, including time wasted for clinicians, patients and pharmacists.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead the article in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Taylor also contributed to special investigation by Pulse into the 10-Year Plan.\r\n\r\nHe warned that a huge concern with the plan was the \u2018ongoing destruction of the partnership model\u2019.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor added that it will \u2018probably occur as a result not funding GP partnerships\u2019.\r\n\r\nIn launching the plan, the Government said that neighbourhood health services will be rolled out across the country bringing together diagnostics, mental health, post-op, rehab, and nursing to people\u2019s doorsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Dr Taylor reiterated that such centres already existed in the community as GP practices.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201cThis seems to ignore the fact that 6,000 GP practices are already providing neighbourhood care and could in theory with the right funding, upscale.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead the Pulse special investigation<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by joining DAUK<\/a> or donating to our GoFundMe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Proposals for a single national formulary (SNF) for medicines in the NHS 10-Year Plan need a cost-benefit analysis. That’s the view of Dr Steve Taylor,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[557,22,23,702],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-practice","tag-dauk-gp","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-crisis","tag-nhs-10-year-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}NHS 10-Year Plan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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