New services are being pioneered by the profession including proactive advice on healthy living, information on sexual health and healthcare for substance misusers. Pharmacists work in all areas of healthcare, from intensive care units and oncology wards in hospitals right through to counselling on smoking cessation and advice on complementary medicines

Responses to external consultation documents or reports, and other submissions to external organisations, are available here as pdf files.

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Document title	Link to response or submission
October 2008
Better Coronary Heart Disease & Stroke Care	Click here
September 2008
Changing Scotland's relationship with Alcohol	Click here
August 2008
Health Inequalities	Click here
November 2007
Better Health, Better Care consultation	Click here
June 2007
Draft standards for integrated care pathways for mental health	Click here
Scottish Executive consultation: Pandemic influenza: A national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic	Click here
March 2007
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Draft Consultation Document: Shifting the Focus - A Strategic Spotlight on Quality Improvement in Community and Primary Health Care Services.	Click here
Scottish Executive Health Department: Public Health Legislation in Scotland	Click here
August 2006
Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation (Scotland) Bill	Click here
July 2006
Delivering a Healthy Future: An Action Framework for Children and Young People's Health in Scotland	Click here
April 2006
National Quality Standards for Substance Misuse Services	Click here
Review of NHS Prescription Charges and Exemption Arrangements in Scotland	Click here
February 2006
Waste Management Licensing Exemptions: a Codification	Click here
January 2006
Research into Development of Resource Allocation Formulae for Family Health Services	Click here
November 2005
Abolition of NHS Prescription Charges (Scotland) Bill - additional evidence	Click here
July 2005
Sale of Methylated Spirits	Click here
June 2005
Abolition of NHS Prescription Charges (Scotland) Bill	Click here
February 2005
Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill	Click here
January 2005
Supervision of methadone administration	Click here
September 2004
Smoking in public places	Click here
July 2004
Abolition of NHS prescription charges	Click here
June 2004
Safer for patients, supportive for professionals	Click here
Further measures to improve the provision of primary care services	Click here
May 2004
Modernising NHS community pharmacy in Scotland	Click here
Community health partnerships	Click here
February 2004
National sexual health and relationship strategy	Click here
October 2003
National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Bill	Click here
February 2003
Office of Fair Trading report on control of entry regulations and retail pharmacy in the UK	Click here
Learning from experience	Click here
October 2002
Mental Health (Scotland) Bill	Click here
January 2002
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Scotland) Bill	Click here
April 2001
Our National Health: a plan for action, a plan for change	Click here
January 2001
Nicotine replacement therapies	Click here
October 2000
An integrated, modern and effective health service: the contribution of pharmacy to the Scottish Health Plan	Click here