Dr Leyla Hannbeck: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- chief executive of the Independent Pharmacies Association (IPA)
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke, Public health & prevention, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The fact that some medicines have required price concessions month after month for more than two years demonstrates that these are not isolated shortages but persistent weaknesses within the medicines supply chain.”
What Dr Leyla Hannbeck has said
“We implore the new health secretary, Yvette Cooper, to get an immediate grip of this situation. Each day these supply issues continue is another day that young people are left without protection from a potentially deadly disease.”
Chief executive of the Independent Pharmacies Association · Public health & prevention · 10 Sept 2026 · Pharmacy one-off MenB programme excluding GPs has ‘significant problems’ ↗
“access to GLP-1s on the NHS is "limited only to a small eligible cohort and many people who might benefit are unable to access treatment at all unless they can afford private care".”
executive chair of the Independent Pharmacies Association · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · ‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs ↗
Where Dr Leyla Hannbeck has been quoted
- Cardiovascular drugs dominate price concessions list, analysis revealsthepharmacist.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Pharmacy one-off MenB programme excluding GPs has ‘significant problems’pulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- ‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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