Therese Coffey and her stupid ideas.

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This woman should not be allowed to be in her post, she’s dangerously ignorant. So now she not only wants over the counter sales of antibiotics (hooray more antibiotic resistance), but in the Telegraph (sorry can’t link), she admits that she shares antibiotics prescribed for her with her family and friends. Needless to say there is a big backlash from Doctors.

FFS! The NHS is in enough shit, why out this idiot in charge of it?!

Could it be a dead cat tactic?

Because the conservative agenda is to have the NHS completely privatised.
But this is so much worse, MRSA on steroids is what this mad woman is willing to cause.
As a future midwife, I despise her.

So sick of people being in charge of areas they know feck all about. Yet another ridiculous member of this government coming out with nonsense with no real thought of the impact.

It’s actually scary, and makes me so angry. They give zero fucks about the health of the nation 😡

Considering she has a PhD in science she seems completely clueless about anything scientific or health related, doctors, pharmacists and nurses wont stand for her nonsense.

So having killed the economy they now want to kill us with more bacterial resistant infections. It just gets better and better 🤦‍♀️

Don't believe all that you read in the papers. Especially about antibiotics being sold over the counter as the OP suggests.

Ìs that not true then. Are there no plans to introduce that. There are plenty of ways the NHS can save money on medication without giving friends your leftovers.

She's all brains and no common sense

She's all brains and no common sense

@HappyHamsters not in the way the papers are spinning it, no.

There is a possibility of a three year study with the NIHR to look at pharmacists prescribing certain antibiotics for certain health problems under very strict conditions. As I said, the study is currently a possibility.

The whole thing is focused on antimicrobial resistance. There are millions of pounds being spent on looking at this as an issue eg.

www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2019/06/amr-funding-labs.page

Coffey came along long after this stuff was in the pipeline.

And note I say in the pipeline. It is not happening for definite. But I can assure you it won't happen because Coffey wants it to. She'll be long past her use by before we see any services in a pharmacy which will give you antibiotics. There is a phenomenal amount of work that goes into such studies before the proposal of new services comes about. And someone has to fund it...

I thought some pharmacists can already prescribe antibiotics, those with PIP training, nurse prescribers can also do this.

@HappyHamsters yes some pharmacists can prescribe for minor ailments where there is clinical evidence they'd help eg a throat swab has shown a sore throat is bacterial, patient presents with obvious conjunctivitis etc but you can't go in with a sore throat and demand to buy penicillin if that makes sense, so a little different to what TC is suggesting

The Mail is having a pop.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11320893/Health-Secretary-Therese-Coffey-admits-illegally-sharing-antibiotics-friends-family.html

She's not a popular Secretary of State these days. She kind of flew under the radar when she was in Work & Pensions (DWP) which was a lot more than she deserved. But now she's out in the open at Health it's gloves off, because it suits the Mail right now.

She's just saying anything controversial to distract people from the lame duck prime minister that we're lumbered with.

The article says she said it to civil servants a while ago though, so one of them has leaked it. (Or she has - she's got it in her to be quite devious like that and then blame it on her office staff. I'm sure she'll have watched The Thick Of It.)

Yes I’ve met quite a few of those!