THE FUTURE FOR PHARMACY
Community pharmacy has certainly proved its worth over the last year. Now, it’s time to consider how pharmacy is to progress in both the short and long term. SP finds out more about an exciting new initiative…
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s pharmacy throughout the United Kingdom considers the next steps in its bid to drive the profession forward, the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Scotland has been involved in developing a vision for the future.
RPS Scotland was recently approached by the NHS Directors of Pharmacy group to provide a professional vision for the future of pharmacy. (The Directors of Pharmacy also approached various other groups in Scotland to do the same.)
As a result, the request was considered by the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board, subsequently approved and an approach agreed.
The first step was to scope with pharmacists in Scotland, and so an email was sent not only to all RPS members in Scotland, but also put onto social media to reach non-members to invite people to join a short life working group.
Once the short life working group was formed, a survey was sent to group members to collate views. Responses were subsequently received by various means, including individual emails, messages and phone calls.
Scoping was also carried out via discussions. The RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board met, for example, on 8 March to discuss the vision, and members of the short life working group could opt in to a focus group discussion on 10 March.
At this point, views were also scoped from other groups met by the RPS team in recent weeks, including NHS pharmacists and pharmacy students.
Going forward, the next step will be to bring all of those views together into a draft vision (what’s happening now). This will include consideration of how the vision fits with key strategic documents in Scotland, for example, those from Scottish Government.
That draft vision will then go to the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board to consider.
Once approved as a draft by the Board, it will go to the short life working group for comment.
Clare Morrison 34
scottishpharmacist.com
The document is then to be returned to the Directors of Pharmacy group by 1 April.
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