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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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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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Professor Klaus Meier on the collaborative future of oncology pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

But then our pharmacists began to be included in the vaccination programmes in countries where they never have been included before, such as France, but also in community pharmacies, which before had only offered flu vaccinations like in Germany where it had been unthinkable that pharmacists would do that, as only doctors had the allowance.

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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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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.