{"id":141899,"date":"2024-05-30T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/?post_type=opinion-former&#038;p=141899"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:19:12","slug":"the-dda-2024-rural-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"opinion-former","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/opinion-former\/the-dda-2024-rural-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"The DDA 2024 Rural Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DDA is calling for:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Improved <\/strong><b>Rural Proofing<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medicines optimisation services: Rural patients to have equitable access to medicines services that support health and best use of medicines, irrespective of their proximity to access to a community pharmacy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full funding for NHS IT: Full NHS funding to recognise the benefits to patients, the practice and the NHS of NHS IT services such as the Electronic Prescription Service<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local commissioning: Give local NHS organisations the freedom to commission services that rural people need<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sustainable Foundations<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fair GP contract that recognises the increased costs of service deliver in rural areas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fair dispensary pay deal that rewards rural practices for meeting the increasing pharmaceutical needs of the rural ageing population<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHS clinicians in the driving seat of NHS policy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispensingdoctor.org\/news\/dda-launches-rural-election-manifesto\/\">Read the manifesto here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DDA is calling for: Improved Rural Proofing Medicines optimisation services: Rural patients to have equitable access to medicines services that support health and best use of medicines, irrespective of their proximity to access to a community pharmacy Full funding for NHS IT: Full NHS funding to recognise the benefits to patients, the practice and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/opinion-former\/the-dda-2024-rural-manifesto\/\" title=\"Read The DDA 2024 Rural Manifesto\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":141898,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"letter":[5614],"campaign-type":[5938],"class_list":["post-141899","opinion-former","type-opinion-former","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","letter-d","campaign-type-health-wellbeing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The DDA 2024 Rural Manifesto - Politics.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/opinion-former\/the-dda-2024-rural-manifesto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The DDA 2024 Rural Manifesto - Politics.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The DDA is calling for: Improved Rural Proofing Medicines optimisation services: Rural patients to have equitable access to medicines services that support health and best use of medicines, irrespective of their proximity to access to a community pharmacy Full funding for NHS IT: Full NHS funding to recognise the benefits to patients, the practice and... 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