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Calls for Collective Political Leadership unite profession


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Department of Health confirm local Pharmacists will be utilised in GP Surgeries


Professor Chris Scott is Queen’s University’s School of Pharmacy innovation winner


13 UCA President Cliff McElhinney takes over the helm from Killian Johnston


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Pharmacy in Focus Awards and President’s Ball – The Winners


34 Driving up Profit – What Pharmacists need to know as we move into 2016 in all business matters


52 Making Headway – Pharmacist’s role in mental health conditions


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Eye Eye – A Guide to the most common eye complaints


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Welcome


Cliff McElhinney UCA President


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7 years ago I qualified as a community Pharmacist. It was a time


of change for community Pharmacy. Pharmacists wanted to be more than dispensers, we wanted to be involved in clinical pharmaceutical care, provide more services from our Pharmacies and be an integral part of the primary care team.


The NUFFIELD report was published, followed by VISION 20:20 from the Pharmaceutical Society. They said that Pharmacy is an underused resource, Pharmacists can do so much more, Pharmacists can alleviate pressure on other primary care services… Sound familiar?


I think so, because 27 years later the same message is being repeated by all the Pharmacy organisations, the department and others.


So not enough has changed.


I still hear that this is a time of transition for community Pharmacy, I really hope that this time it is. There are more highly qualified Pharmacists being produced by both Northern Ireland Universities than ever. They amaze me with their enthusiasm, drive and ambition.


Their clinical knowledge was the stuff that I would have envied when I qualified all


those years ago. So how do we engage them and keep them in the community Pharmacy network? Only through properly managed change.


Working practices need to change. How many of you spend your day dispensing more and more scripts day by day?


Everyday pressures mean that we struggle to deliver the new services that we so desperately want. Yet we do deliver.


Pharmacists need to be more visible to patients, GP’s and commissioners of services. We have highly trained, competent staff who can dispense. We need to deliver and be paid for these new services; Providing quantifiable positive clinical outcomes for the general population.


If we continue to be slavishly tied to our dispensary we are on a road to nowhere. If we are to continue as a profession, if the community pharmacy network is to remain strong, then we need to engage with those who are commissioning change.


Dispensing will remain at the core of what we do as far as the public are concerned. It is up to us to challenge that idea and prove that we are so much more than dispensers.


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