here's the gist of the book
- Improving Health
- pharmacies are essential part of life in that area (they employ technicians and counter assistants who are locals trained to deliver high quality of services; contribute to wider public health agenda; patient's first point of contact with a healthcare professional)
- pharmaceutical public health (use of prescribed medicines; day-to-day activities; smoking cessation; drug misuse; travel advice; safe sexual health; family planning) health promotion and disease prevention
- Optimising the use of medicines (have access to medicines when required; medication review)
- Protecting the public (maximise that benefits and minimise the harm; Yellow Card scheme)
- Reducing Accidental Deaths (poisoning in children; unintentional injury; falls in older people; returning of unneeded medication for disposal)
- Using medicines safely (misadventures with medicines)
- Antimicrobial Resistance (drug dosage and duration)
- Delivering Seamless Care (ensure equity of access to current and future services)
- Working with the Pharmaceutical Industry (has expertise on how and why medicines are used)
- Improving Access
- Pharmacist prescribing (independent and supplementary prescriber)
- Prescribing partnerships (GP provides diagnosis and pharmacist selects most appropriate medicine for that patient - Lothian)
- Ensuring Good Access to Pharmaceutical Services (Office of Fair Trading)
- Being Valued as Part of the NHS Family
- Improving Premises
- Working with others (nurses, physiotherapists, chiropodists, social work staff, practitioners in complementary therapies, other local authority staff)
- Helping People at Home (failure to use medicines properly leads to hospital admissions; pharmacists need to be able to get out and visit people who cannot access a pharmacy)
- Out of Hour Access
- Working with NHS24
- Working with other Stakeholders
- Electronic Transmission of Prescription Information (hospital pharmacy - community pharmacy)
- Helping Patients Make Better Use of their Medicines
- Empowering patients (ensure that medicine are treated with respect)
- Helping Patients take their Medicines (patient's understanding and agreement with their treatment; involvement in drug therapy and most convenient way to take it)
- Service Re-design
- providing therapeutic drug monitoring service to tailor the dose of patients' medicines where the dosing is critical
- become more patient-focused
- pre-admission clinics and admission wards
- ensure that patient fully understand about their medicines and how to use them
- medicines information
- evolution of tomorrow's medicines
- Primary Care Trusts (supervised methadone consumption; needle exchange; oxygen services; the disposal of unwanted medicines; advice to nursing and residential homes; collection and delivery services and rota services)
- In-Pharmacy Testing (screening for risk factors, diagnosing disease and monitoring disease or therapy)
- Monitoring therapy
- Pharmacist prescribing for common illness
- meeting specific needs (cancer; coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease; mental health; diabetes; epilepsy; model schemes for pharmaceutical care; drug misuse; sexual health)
- A Lifetime of Pharmaceutical Care (parents and children; young people; older people; carers; homeless, ethnic minorities; refugees and asylum seekers)
- Partnership with Staff
- education and training (4 years of Master degree and 1 year practical training in community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy)
- manpower and skill mix
- clinical governance (ensure the delivery of high quality pharmaceutical services to patients)
- Research and development (University of Strathclyde and Robert Gordon University)
book published in 2002
5 pounds per book
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