
Sukhi Basra
@sukhibasra1
Independent Prescribing Community Pharmacist for 26 years! NPA board member, KCW CPE committee member.
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21-04-2017 13:51:04
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Our podcast series continues with an explanation of how your medicine for common illnesses works in your body. Share to support our campaign. #AskYourPharmacist Watch our podcast series with our NPA Board Member Sukhi Basra

In today’s podcast – habits for good health, including drinking plenty of water! #AskYourPharmacist. Please RT to support our campaign. Watch episode 4 of our podcase series on the habits of good health with Sukhi Basra: youtube.com/watch?v=CSGtxl…

📻 NPA board member Sukhi Basra spoke to BBC Wiltshire today about the range of conditions patients can now be treated for at their local pharmacy, including minor injuries and infected insect bites. #AskYourPharmacistWeek


Great to visit Ali Sparkes - Director of Happiness & Technology and team at the Health Dispensary in Neath, Wales, yesterday, with the pharmacy being different to any I've visited before...with the counters, shelves and floors made from recycled timber, incense burning in every corner and music playing in background


"The seemingly endless delays to this year’s contract negotiations only reinforce the belief that there is a lack of respect for pharmacies in government and leaves hardworking pharmacies in the dark." Paul Rees MBE on today's GP contract announcement dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/artic…


Congrats Company Chemists' Association for successful parliamentary launch of impressive new report on increasing uptake of vaccinations through pharmacies. Pic shows Beccy Cooper MP with NPA board member Sukhi Basra at the event.


🗣️ “Operating on tight margins has left us with no choice but to cut back. Each decision feels like a failure, not of effort, but of resources.” NPA board members Sukhi Basra & Olivier Picard spoke to Mail Online about pressures facing pharmacies thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/….

🚨BREAKING 🚨 We’re pleased that Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee Committee has today written to NHS England about the non publication of their Independent Economic Analysis into community pharmacy (1/2) 👇 committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

“Pharmacists are more fed up than I’ve ever seen them….there doesn’t seem to be appreciation from government about the urgency of the problem." NPA members spoke to Paul Gallagher about the pharmacy crisis Reena Barai Olivier Picard Mike Hewitson inews.co.uk/news/health/th…

Good to meet with Dr Luke Evans MP today to raise the current issues for National Pharmacy Association members


great to meeting Helen Morgan MP 🔶 today highlighting the issues for community pharmacy National Pharmacy Association


A big thanks to Helen Morgan MP 🔶 for raising the huge challenges and uncertainty facing community pharmacy in parliament today. 📈 Our projections show that another 1000 pharmacies may close by 2027 in England without urgent action by the government to reverse funding cuts.

💊 “I have been a pharmacist for 27 years and I have never known a time where every single day we are spending hours trying to source medicines.” NPA board member Sukhi Basra talks to BBC Radio 4 Today about the pressure medicine shortages put on already underfunded pharmacy teams

NPA appoints ‘first female vice chair’ as new chair revealed chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/independe… The National Pharmacy Association has appointed its first ever female vice chair, while her predecessor has taken over the top job.

🗣️ “The system is really rigid and patients are vulnerable.” NPA Vice-Chair Sukhi Basra spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live this week about shortages of HRT medication. We urge the government to trust pharmacists with more flexibility to make substitutions where there are supply issues

Enjoyed interviewing Sukhi Basra National Pharmacy Association about the challenges facing pharmacy and her as its first female vice-chair in 104 years. ‘I don’t want it to be the conversation. I don’t want to be the Maggie Thatcher and no-one comes after it for a long time” independentpharmacist.co.uk/interviews/int…


Fabulous to see so many brilliant NPA members in London tonight with Olivier Picard Henry Gregg Sukhi Basra #pharmacy #NHS
