CONTENTS


10 PHARMACISTS PARTICIPATE IN PIONEERING POLYPHARMACY PILOT


12 WORLD HEPATITIS DAY: SCOTLAND LEADS THE WAY


16 NEW GOVERNMENT – NEW NHS? JOHN MACGILL GIVES US HIS OPINION


26 SCOTTISH PHARMACIST AWARDS – MEET THE WINNERS!


37 FEMALE HEALTH – FOCUS ON BLADDER HEALTH


39 HOSPITAL INITIATIVE PROVES A REAL DRIVER FOR CHANGE


43 ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION – ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW


44 SKIN CANCER – THE GROWING MENACE


46 LAIRD’S SHOUT – JOHNATHAN LAIRD ON THE VITAL ROLE OF ACTS


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WHEN PRESCRIPTION FOR EXCELLENCE WAS PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2013, THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT STATED QUITE CLEARLY ITS OVERRIDING OBJECTIVE WAS THAT ALL PATIENTS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE AND SETTING OF CARE, WOULD RECEIVE HIGH-QUALITY PHARMACEUTICAL CARE USING THE CLINICAL SKILLS OF THE


PHARMACIST TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. ‘We want,’ the Government said at the time, ‘to see all pharmacists, regardless of whether they work in a hospital, community, NHS Board, or other setting, undertaking an enhanced role in preventing ill health and providing a clinical input to a caseload of patients.’


With Scotland’s changing demographics and a continuing drive towards health and social care integration, pharmacist have never been in a better position to position themselves at the forefront of healthcare by providing the ‘clinical input to a caseload of patients’ as advocated in Prescription for Excellence.


The Scottish Government recently announced the latest batch of funding for Supplementary and Independent Prescribing Clinics for 2016-17, and stated that, while the funding would remain in place for 2017-18, it would be followed by a review of the funding for such clinics to determine how they will be funded in the future.


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Across Scotland there are Independent Prescribers, who are frustrated by the restrictions placed on them in terms of being able to put their prescribing and clinical skills to practical use. That’s why the news of a new pilot, which is currently running in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, has been warmly welcomed. The polypharmacy pilot not only provides pharmacists with the opportunity to put their clinical knowledge and – in some cases – independent prescribing skills – into


practice, but also provides care home staff and patients with increased peace of mind with regard to medicines’ adherence and compliance. In this issue, Glasgow pharmacist, Elizabeth Roddick, tells us about the progress of the pilot and about how such projects can enhance the pharmacist’s role by focusing on clinical skills.


Dementia care is another fast-growing sector in Scottish healthcare, which is going to increasingly occupy the time of all healthcare professionals. Again, pharmacists are at the ‘coal face’ in the care of dementia patients in the community but as pharmacists such as Audrey McAnaw and Sally Arnison show in this issue, pharmacists and their staff can not only become more clinically involved in the care of their local dementia patients, but can also, on occasion, play an active role in diagnosis of the condition.


Elsewhere we take an indepth look at bladder problems in women, the menace of skin cancer and the causes of erectile dysfunction.


As always, please contact us if there’s anything in particular that you’d like to see in the magazine, or that you’d like to pass on to your colleagues across the region.


THE EDITOR


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