The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7492 p270
8 March 2008

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NPA and BMA collaborate on resource for joint working

Communication between pharmacy and general practice could be improved by means of a new workbook, developed as a joint venture between the National Pharmacy Association and the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association.

Launched this week, and available from the members area of the NPA website, the booklet focuses on eight potential interfaces:

• Establishing and developing relationships
• Seeking clarification about prescriptions
• Reporting pharmacy interventions
• Repeat dispensing
• Medicines use review
• Exchanging information about services
• Non-medical prescribing
• Practice-based commissioning

“The intention is that groups of pharmacists and GPs should work through this book together, identifying local challenges and solutions. This could be done at a practice/pharmacy level or between local pharmaceutical committees and local medical committees,” the workbook explains.