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Why Community Pharmacy Is the Future of Patient Care

Omnicell

More than 95% of Americans live within 5 miles of a community pharmacy, making the pharmacist the most accessible and trusted healthcare provider – only nurses rank higher. It’s easy to see why. Local pharmacists have always strived to be more than medication dispensers.

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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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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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Five for Friday March 8: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

Offering Resources to Implement Point-of-Care Testing The National Community Pharmacists Association and National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations have developed a new guidance document to help community pharmacy teams with their point-of-care testing services. "A

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Pharmacy united in the recovery of healthcare

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Antibiotic prescription checklist During the discussion, Professor Philip Howard (NHS England, North East and Yorkshire) described how an antibiotic prescription checklist had been piloted in 66 community pharmacies. More than 70% of community pharmacists who took part in the pilot said that they would continue to use the checklist.

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RPS updates patient safety professional standards to reflect pharmacy evolution

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The RPS said that the original version of its standards ‘was mainly community-pharmacy-focused’, but ‘with an evolving pharmacy landscape and expanding roles, a review of these standards [was] required to ensure it is fit for purpose’.