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Guest Blog Post #14: Deprescribing in community pharmacy

The deprescribing.org Blog

In this blog post, Amy will share her experiences with deprescribing from the community pharmacist perspective. Community pharmacists build relationships. Community pharmacy practice is characterized by patient-pharmacist relationships that have sometimes been built over years. Document, document, document.

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Trial finds care home prescribing pharmacists improve drug burden index

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

via a community pharmacy) or visits by a primary care pharmacist undertaking medication reviews. The pharmacists provided pharmaceutical care plans to approximately 20 residents in one to three care homes through weekly visits over a 6-mont period.

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Optimising hospital discharge encouraged in new repeat prescribing toolkit

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

It encourages GP practices, primary care networks and community pharmacies to work together to understand their repeat prescribing processes through a self-assessment exercise and sets out how teams could map out their repeat prescribing processes and make changes to improve efficiency for healthcare teams as well as patient safety.

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Equity and SDOH in Medication Use Quality

PQA

Community pharmacy practices are located in these "environments" and the staff within the pharmacy are typically from these environments.

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Five for Friday December 1: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

In support of this goal, PQA has performed a review of its bylaws and proposes revisions which modernize and streamline this important governing document. If community pharmacists can easily collect these data, they can be an effective resource to promote clinical trial diversity.

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How to Succeed in Pharmacy School

Find Your Script

Most Schools of Pharmacy have you apply for your Intern Pharmacist License with the State Board of Pharmacy within the first month of P1 year starting. Keep an Excel file to document interesting cases, interventions, initiatives and projects your complete on your APPE rotations. Use each rotation to learn.

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Taking stock of NHS medicines optimisation

pharmaphorum

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust has used electronic medical records to document and share medicines decisions with GP practices and community pharmacies. Harnessing technology. Technology can also join up and improve services.