Practice, Skill Mix, and Education: The Evolving Role of Pharmacy Technicians in Great Britain

Boughen, Melanie; Fenn, Tess

doi:10.3390/pharmacy8020050

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“…They emphasized the need for training, continuing education, monitoring, regulations, and process designs to keep up with these changes, and hopefully even get ahead of the curve. Boughen and Fenn provided similar optimism and words of advice in moving forward for technician practice in the United Kingdom (U.K.) [ 8 ]. The authors described a model of technician education that employed pyramidal structures of technician activities, beginning with assembling medications, up to advanced communication, coupled with education standards that begin with basic customer service and lead up to assistance with medication optimization.…”

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Pharmacy Technicians Help to Push Boundaries in Delivering Quality Care

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“…This study highlights the vital need for segregation or rede ning the core responsibilities and/or reassigning tasks of a pharmacy independent regulator, professional body and medicines regulator [47]. Improving pharmacists' core skills, developing new practice based roles, sustainability and the impact evaluations of these roles falls under the domain of NPAs, whereas issue about medicines such as pricing, distribution, access to medicines, import and export of medicines are the speci c roles of medicine regulator [48,49].…”

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National Pharmacy Associations in the Commonwealth -current scenario and future needs to maximise effective contributions of the pharmacy profession towards Universal health coverage

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Background: The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) is a charity representing pharmacists across the Commonwealth, with the vision of empowering and collaboratively develop the profession and fully utilise the potential of pharmacists to strengthen health systems through supporting better access to, quality and use of medicines and related services. Commonwealth comprises predominantly of low and middle-income countries where limited data often exists in pharmacy practice. There is a recognised need across the Commonwealth to focus on developing, implementing and fully utilising pharmacy professional services to progress universal health coverage and achieve the sustainable development goals, particularly in low and middle-income countries; however, currently a knowledge gap exists in understanding the national priorities in Commonwealth nations. CPA is ideally positioned to access to these nations. The aim of this study was thus to explore the priorities and focus areas of NPAs across the Commonwealth and create evidence for a needs-based approach to inform the support that the Commonwealth pharmacists association can collaboratively and strategically provide to its members to progress towards shared goals.Methods: Data was collected virtually on Zoom by conducting interviews using a semi-structured interview guide developed for this study with CPA councillors representing NPAs or their equivalents if no official body existed. An inductive, reflexive, thematic analysis was performed for data analysis. Results: In total, 30 councillors were interviewed from 30 low- and medium-income countries. The three main overarching priority areas identified across respective Commonwealth nations developing extended pharmacy services, improving pharmacy education, and developing and redefining the role of NPAs.Conclusions: This novel study highlights the collective priorities for the pharmacy profession across the low and middle-income countries of the Commonwealth and the urgent need for supporting NPAs around the three identified overarching priority areas. The mapped-out priorities will inform an evidence-based approach for the CPA to better support NPAs in their mission through advocacy and practitioner development, to fully harness pharmacists’ unique skill set and maximise their contribution to progressing universal health coverage.

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“…Most of the Commonwealth nations do not separate and segregate professional regulation and medicines regulation. This study highlights the vital need for segregation or redefining the core responsibilities and/or reassigning tasks of a pharmacy independent regulator, professional body and medicines regulator [ 45 ]. Improving pharmacists’ core skills, developing new practice based roles, sustainability and the impact evaluations of these roles falls under the domain of NPAs, whereas issue about medicines such as pricing, distribution, access to medicines, import and export of medicines are the specific roles of medicine regulator [ 46 , 47 ].…”

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National pharmacy associations in the commonwealth: current scenario and future needs to maximise effective contributions of the pharmacy profession towards universal health coverage

Iqbal

Rutter²,

Gülpınar

et al. 2021

J of Pharm Policy and Pract

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Background The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) is a charity representing pharmacists across the Commonwealth, with the vision of empowering and collaboratively develop the profession and fully utilise the potential of pharmacists to strengthen health systems through supporting better access to, quality and use of medicines and related services. Commonwealth comprises predominantly of low- and middle-income countries, where limited data often exists in pharmacy practice. There is a recognised need across the Commonwealth to focus on developing, implementing and fully utilising pharmacy professional services to progress universal health coverage and achieve the sustainable development goals, particularly in low and middle-income countries; however, currently a knowledge gap exists in understanding the national priorities in Commonwealth nations. CPA is ideally positioned to access to these nations. The aim of this study was thus to explore the priorities and focus areas of NPAs across the Commonwealth and create evidence for a needs-based approach to inform the support that the Commonwealth pharmacists association can collaboratively and strategically provide to its members to progress towards shared goals. Methods Data were collected virtually on Zoom by conducting interviews using a semi-structured interview guide developed for this study with CPA councillors representing NPAs or their equivalents if no official body existed. An inductive, reflexive, thematic analysis was performed for data analysis. Results In total, 30 councillors were interviewed from 30 low- and medium-income countries. The three main overarching priority areas identified across respective Commonwealth nations developing extended pharmacy services, improving pharmacy education, and developing and redefining the role of NPAs. Conclusions This novel study highlights the collective priorities for the pharmacy profession across the low and middle-income countries of the Commonwealth and the urgent need for supporting NPAs around the three identified overarching priority areas. The mapped-out priorities will inform an evidence-based approach for the CPA to better support NPAs in their mission through advocacy and practitioner development, to fully harness pharmacists’ unique skill set and maximise their contribution to progressing universal health coverage.

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Practice, Skill Mix, and Education: The Evolving Role of Pharmacy Technicians in Great Britain

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Pharmacy Technicians Help to Push Boundaries in Delivering Quality Care

Pharmacy Technicians Help to Push Boundaries in Delivering Quality Care

National Pharmacy Associations in the Commonwealth -current scenario and future needs to maximise effective contributions of the pharmacy profession towards Universal health coverage

National pharmacy associations in the commonwealth: current scenario and future needs to maximise effective contributions of the pharmacy profession towards universal health coverage

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