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BEST PRACTICE HUB IS GROWING
Following the success of RPS Scotland’s Celebrating Best Practice event in Glasgow in May, a new pharmacy best practice hub has been launched on the RPS website.
Pharmacy teams across Scotland are undertaking fantastic work across Scotland in a variety of settings.
The purpose of the hub is to showcase the best practice in which pharmacy teams across Scotland are engaged; both to share within pharmacy and to engage with other professions, politicians and the public.
The hub has six written case studies and thirteen video case studies so far, and this is just the starting point.
There are some great examples including: • Implementing pharmacogenomics in the stroke service (which was the winning example of best practice from our celebrating best practice event in May)
• Pharmacist prescribing of antivirals during COVID
• Modernising medicines supply
Visit the RPS Scotland website to see all of the examples.
Would you like to share your own example of best practice?
Please email
best.practice.scotland@
rpharms.com with the details, and a member of the RPS Scotland Team will contact you. We may request more information from you before considering your example for publication.
RPS SCOTLAND DISCUSSES PHARMACY WORKFORCE WITH MSP
Clare Morrison, the former Director for Scotland at RPS, recently attended a panel discussion on tackling the workforce crisis with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Humza Yousaf MSP, at the Scottish National Party conference.
Clare described the positive recent expansions of pharmacists' roles, such as the development of NHS Scotland's Pharmacy First and Pharmacy First Plus services which have transformed independent prescribing in community pharmacy and the Pharmacotherapy Service, which has embedded pharmacy teams in general practice. However, she cautioned that the pharmacotherapy service had been introduced without proper pharmacy workforce planning. Clare went on to say that, although it was great to see such pharmacy services described in the current Scottish Government winter resilience plan, the plan lacked commitments on recruitment and retention of pharmacists.
‘We know,’ she said, ‘there are shortages of pharmacists across every sector of pharmacy - hospital, community and general practice. We need Scottish Government to undertake workforce planning for pharmacy in the way it does for doctors and nurses.’
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Clare Morrison MBE, with Humza Yousaf. (Photo Credit, Andrew Perry, Holyrood Events)
PHARMACY COMMITS TO BOLD ACTIONS ON DISABILITY
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from across Scotland met at the Scottish Parliament last month and committed to bold actions to support people living with seen and unseen disabilities to work in pharmacy.
RPS brought together a wide range of pharmacy organisations. The meeting was chaired by Jeremy Balfour MSP, Convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Disability, and the meeting was also attended by the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Alison Strath.
Last year, a survey of RPS members identified that living with a disability was the biggest barrier to working in pharmacy. This year, RPS is running a disability in pharmacy awareness campaign, to highlight some of the barriers and challenges raised by RPS members and to work with stakeholders across pharmacy to overcome these. The conversation at the Scottish Parliament was a significant step in achieving this.
The meeting heard from pharmacists with lived experience of disability, pharmacy employers working to support pharmacy employees living with disabilities, pharmacy’s regulatory body, the General Pharmaceutical Council on its disability strategy and the National Pharmacy Technician Group Scotland.
Jeremy Balfour MSP, Clare Morrison (then RPS Director for Scotland) and Amandeep Doll (RPS Head of Professional Belonging) at Scottish Parliament round table
The themes which emerged covered three areas: culture change, respecting individuals and enabling flexible working.
‘It was fantastic to bring pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from across the country to the Scottish Parliament to discuss and agree actions which will make pharmacy more inclusive for people living with disabilities,’ said the then Director for Scotland at RPS, Clare Morrison. ‘As pharmacists’ professional leadership body, we are committed to ensuring our members have access to the same employment opportunities. That’s why this roundtable is so important.’
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