Great support from the community!
July 12th, 2013 by Dr WheelerThank you very much for the great turnout at our public meeting last week. I was impressed with the level of understanding that seemed to be present, and very helpful questions / suggestions were in evidence all round.
You have probably seen and heard some items on BBC Alba / BBC Scotland / Radio Scotland – good to get some momentum going – let’s keep it up!
As discussed at the meeting, the next stage is to lobby our representatives. if you want to help, you can do so very easily if you are prepared to print off some letters and post them to support the cause.
You can do your own letter, or you can use one that I have prepared, or you can modify one of my letters to put in some personal insights. The main thing is that you get writing!
The most important thing just now is for us to lobby parliament for a change to the crazy regulations that exist just now which seem to allow public voices to be squashed in favour of predatory pharmacy applications.
Please write to the Minister for heatlh Alex Neil and our local MSP Alasdair Allan. Feel free to link them to / supply them with, the fact sheet below from the dispensing doctors association. This gives an excellent summary of the facts around the situation.
Dispensing doctors factsheet (would be great if you could print this off and send it along with your letter to the MSPs).
When we know that the application for the pharmacy is in with the health board and the public consultation starts you also need to write to Stornoway. Don’t send this letter just yet – but it should be going live in the next few weeks I would think.
Thank you again for your support – sending these three letters now could possibly help avert a lot of problems going into the future.
