INNOVATION
MSP Jenny Gilruth with pharmacy
owner Bernadette Brown inside robot!
one of PfE’s main recommendations was that pharmacists should work in partnership with patients and other health and social care professionals to obtain optimal outcomes with medicines and eliminate adverse events whenever possible. Patients should, it said, receive high-quality pharmaceutical care – regardless of its setting – a major point, given the number of patients who now have complex health issues including multimorbidities in addition to those in care homes and those who are being kept in their own homes.
another recommendation focused on the fact that, going forward, pharmaceutical care provision should involve nhS-accredited clinical pharmacist independent prescribers working in collaborative partnerships with medical practitioners who would continue to have overall responsibility for diagnosis.
over the next ten years, PfE stated, a series of work programmes would be delivered, namely:
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aS nI commUnItY PharmacY StrUggLES on WIth no contract and vErY LIttLE aS to What thE fUtUrE hoLdS, ScottISh commUnItY PharmacIStS arE rEvELLIng In a contract that not onLY rEcognISES, bUt EagErLY PromotES, thEIr cLInIcaL SKILLS.
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n 2013, the Scottish government launched a ‘vision and action Plan for the right pharmaceutical care
through integrated partnerships and innovation’. Prescription for Excellence (PfE) - as it is known - clearly laid out the future direction for pharmacy and recognised pharmacists as the primary clinicians
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responsible for the provision of pharmaceutical care in the community.
as in nI, over the next decade or so, significant changes will occur in Scottish medicine and therapeutics; changes, which will require new and innovative models of care to enable
patients to obtain the maximum benefit. PfE recognised the patient as a critical member of the health and social care team and required that they were given enough information to enable them to make informed decisions about their care. this was, said PfE, the key to delivering person- centred healthcare.
• Pharmacists in the nhS to be recognised as clinicians responsible for the provision of nhS pharmaceutical care • releasing capacity of pharmacists to deliver pharmaceutical care to be facilitated by full utilisation of pharmacy technicians, support staff and increased use of robotics in dispensing to improve safety and efficiency • Pharmacists in secondary care and in primary care to work together in an integrated way that is supported by a common clinical pharmacy career structure • Pharmacists to work closely with gPs, primary care, community teams and secondary care, sharing information for the benefit of the patient
So, that’s the theory... now, here’s the practice...
thE ‘PharmacY of thE fUtUrE’ If PfE had created a life-size model of its dream ‘pharmacy of the future’, then surely it would have looked exactly like cadham Pharmacy in glenrothes, which recently relaunched as a health centre!
While many Scottish pharmacies have invested in medicines dispensing robots, owner bernadette brown has opted for two robots to enable her to
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