INTERVIEW
Dr Parr addresses delegates at the recent Pharmacy Management Forum in Dunblane
IN AUGUST, THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN PHARMACEUTICAL CARE, A STRATEGY FOR BOTH PHARMACY SERVICES AND PHARMACY PROFESSIONALS, WHICH AIMS TO SET A DIRECTION THAT SEEKS TO EMBED THE PROFESSION AS EQUALS IN DELIVERING HEALTHCARE. JOHN MACGILL CAUGHT UP WITH SCOTLAND’S CHIEF PHARMACEUTICAL OFFICER, DR ROSE MARIE PARR, AT THE RECENT PHARMACY MANAGEMENT FORUM IN SCOTLAND TO ASK WHAT PROGRESS SHE FELT HAD BEEN MADE IN THE FOUR YEARS SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF PRESCRIPTION FOR EXCELLENCE…
FOCUSING THE VISION
John Macgill (JM): What did you perceive as the ultimate role of your Achieving Excellence in
Pharmaceutical Care document?
Rose Marie Parr (RMP): I think Achieving Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care builds on Prescription for Excellence and we want to keep its vision. And the vision for me, in all the strategies so far for Scotland, has been around best pharmaceutical care.
It has been a short time from 2013 12 - SCOTTISH PHARMACIST
to 2017, but so much has changed within the health service in that time. We had new strategies such as Realistic Medicine and Realising Realistic Medicine and a National Clinical Strategy and we have seen health and social care integration, which has made a real difference. When I came to the Chief Pharmacist’s job, I said I wanted to refresh Prescription for Excellence, not to change its vision, but to give it a focus that takes on board the changes to policy within government in Scotland,
to build on the good practice that we have already and makes it all more accessible for people. We need to keep the vision and the ambition, but we need to get the job done as well. So, I’ve used those two years I have been in post to speak to people across Scotland. I have had a lot of feedback that has let me see what we need to keep doing and what we need to do well.
I first came to this role with five big tasks I wanted to fulfil. Refreshing Prescription for Excellence was one.
The second was to work on aspects of how we embed pharmaceutical care within our practice across all the settings - and Achieving Excellence, I think, talks to that. Another thing I wanted to address was education and training: not just for pharmacists, but also for pharmacy technicians. We have started that conversation and it’s going to be challenging, but we are now looking at five- year undergraduate courses for pharmacists coming through with more experiential learning and more
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