UK Industry Urges Government to Develop Self-Care Strategy

UK consumer healthcare industry association PAGB has joined forces with a number of like-minded groups to call on the government to implement a national strategy for self-care to help relieve pressure on the NHS.

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• Source: Alamy

Implementing a national strategy for self-care would improve access to effective treatments through Rx-to-OTC switch, embed health literacy in the school curriculum, and an unleash the full potential of digital technology to help people take care of themselves, argues a coalition including UK consumer healthcare industry association PAGB.

The UK government needs such a strategy, says the coalition, to improve understanding of self-treatable conditions and ease pressure on the overstretched national

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