PJ Online | Prescribing & Medicines Management (May/June 2003)

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Prescribing & Medicines Management
Issue no 3, p3
May/June 2003

Comment

Other people's lives are always of interest — particularly if they bear comparison to one's own. Pam Grant's "Day in the Life" (p13) illustrates how pharmacy roles have changed in recent years and how, increasingly, pharmacists are integral to the clinical care team — both in hospital and in the wider community.

The value placed on pharmacists is set to continue to rise as pharmacists prescribing takes off.

The first cohort of pharmacists are shortly to start their training as supplementary prescribers in Scotland, with those expected to start in England a little later in the year.

P&MM would be interested to hear from any pharmacist about to undertake supplementary prescribing training who would be interested in writing a short diary about the course, the topics that are most challenging, what is most stimulating as well as aspects of training that should be improved.

That way the "wait and see" approach being adopted by many pharmacists (p5) might change to "let's join in".

Please write to editor@pharmj.org.uk with P&MM in the subject line.

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