The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7324 p670
6 November 2004

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Half of GPs want bigger role for pharmacists in diabetes

Pharmacists should play an expanded role in the management of type 2 diabetes to relieve GP workload. This is the opinion of 48 per cent of GPs surveyed in research sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline.

Of the 215 GPs questionned, 56 per cent agreed that monitoring could be done by pharmacists to identify patients with type 2 diabetes whose condition was not controlled, 20 per cent thought that it could not and 24 per cent were not sure. Furthermore, 41 per cent of GPs said they would be willing to act on treatment recommendations made by the pharmacist for these patients. However, almost a third of GPs (31 per cent) said they would not be willing to do this and 28 per cent were not sure.