Community Pharmacy Framework report published
Innovative practice in community pharmacy is one of the features of
the final report on the Community Pharmacy Framework Collaborative published
by the National Prescribing Centre (PDF 2MB).
The report sets out broad results from the collaborative and shares some
of the ideas that emerged.
The CPFC programme was launched
in 2005 (PJ, 7 May 2005, p535) with the
aim of helping individuals and organisations to implement effectively
the new community pharmacy contract in England. The report acknowledges
that implementation of the contract is an evolving process. However,
it adds that the influence of the CPFC programme has accelerated the
spread of good ideas.
The report makes suggestions as to what pharmacists, and others, can
do to ensure the development and delivery of local pharmacy services.
These include:
• Develop effective relationships
• Learn from the successes and failures of other organisations
• Promote joint learning meetings between pharmacists and GPs
• Create multidisciplinary community pharmacy development teams
• Try out ideas on a small scale first
• Support community pharmacists by providing training in different ways
• Communicate messages to all stakeholders
• Include service users
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