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The Practice Team
Published in James Sherifi, General Practice Under the NHS, 2023
The pharmacy technician worked under the direction of the pharmacist in dispensing drugs, reviewing repeat prescriptions, stock management, storage of drugs and vaccines, sales of over-the-counter medication, and responding to patient queries.
Telehealth and Virtual Care
Published in Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 3, 2022
Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Kimberly D. Shea
DTC conditions are typically very private and there may be an embarrassment in sharing information with a known provider. The patient completes a brief, self-report, online questionnaire, followed by a virtual visit from an unfamiliar physician, APRN or PA. A prescription is then called to a pharmacy or the medication is mailed directly to the patient. Of great concern is that with a one-time interaction between a patient and the DTC provider, medication intake is not monitored for long-term safety. And primary care providers may be left out of the loop.
Drugs and health
Published in Sally Robinson, Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health, 2021
In the UK, there are three categories of ‘over the counter’ medicine. ‘Prescription only’ medicines must be prescribed by an authorised professional and dispensed from a pharmacy or another place with a specific licence. These are normally for conditions that need to be diagnosed and managed by a health professional and include antibiotics and medicines for treating high blood pressure. Many controlled drugs fall within this category.‘Pharmacy medicines’ can be bought from pharmacies. These are normally for treating short-term conditions, and need to be used more carefully, possibly with additional advice from a pharmacist. They include larger packs of paracetamol, medicines containing codeine and emergency contraception. Many controlled drugs fall within this category.‘General sales list’ medicines can be bought from retailers such as supermarkets. These are for common, easy to recognise, health concerns. The risks of harm are relatively low if they are inappropriately used. They include antihistamines for allergies and small packs of paracetamol. Some controlled drugs fall within this category.(Gov.UK, 2019)
Discovering hidden patterns among medicines prescribed to patients using Association Rule Mining Technique
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
Hospital pharmacy is an essential department in hospitals. It manages the medicine replenishment services. It includes procurement, storage, processing medication orders, dispensing medicines to all patients ensuring the availability of medications at affordable prices [1]. However, pharmacists find it challenging to estimate the actual medication demand. It is hard for them to decide the effective replenishment strategies and the appropriate inventory control policy [2]. Hence, hospital pharmacy management suffers from inefficient processes [3]. This inefficiency results in a mismatch between demand and supply. It also leads to time-consuming manual tasks, out-of-stock situations, medicine expiration, and high operating costs [4]. Besides, the complexities in the healthcare sector are unique and challenging. For instance, each patient arriving in a hospital for treatment and care may suffer from either single or multiple health issues and may need one or more medicines in different forms (oral/injection), dosages and combinations [5]. The medication demand prediction and replenishment decisions are extremely difficult for hospital pharmacists [4]. Apart from that, in situations of multiple medicine administration, shortages of any supporting medicines result in a delay in treatment (and piling up of main medicine inventory). The reason is that the medication order may contain combinations of medications causing associations among prescribed medicines [6].
Enhancing the service quality of community pharmacies for non-prescription medicines based on the perspectives of pharmacists and patients: a qualitative study
Published in Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2023
Ramida Wongvedvanij, Chonlatis Darawong
According to the verbatim-transcribed data, we identified other emerging themes and mapped them under various major themes related to the potential service quality of community pharmacies in Thailand, which were frequently addressed by both groups of participants and pharmacists. The pharmacists being responsible for counseling and providing non-prescription medicines, and the patients, who receive such pharmacy services. As a result, five major themes were identified as new dimensions of service quality, which were then compared with Mirzaei et al.’s [9] dimensions and sub-dimensions. The results in Figure 1 show that the emerging dimensions have both similar and different sub-dimensions compared with the previous study. The similar dimensions were competence (i.e. skill, professionalism, and knowledge), rapport (i.e. personal bond, empathy, care), and physical (i.e. temperature, noise, scent, lighting, and music), whereas the different dimensions were communication (i.e. channel, technology, and language skill), and patient-centredness (i.e. respect and personal information).
Prescribing patterns of vitamin D and analogues in a private healthcare patient population in South Africa
Published in South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2022
Angela Ann Morris-Paxton, Ilse Truter
Vitamin D is used across the age range, and there are numerous prescribers and dispensers. Most patients received their prescriptions from a pharmacy as opposed to a hospital or medical practitioner. The number of patients receiving prescribed vitamin D or vitamin D analogues was directly correlated with increasing age. The practice appears to be that of repeat and long-term use of vitamin D, in older age groups and particularly women, suggesting the perceived efficacy of the additional supplementation. Preventing the most common cancers and fragility fractures with better nutritional intervention could potentially save not only lives but a large amount of money that could be redirected towards other prevention and treatment strategies. As the cost of additional supplements is relatively small compared with treatment of deficiency disorders, vitamin D could have broad and positive effects for very little outlay (ZAR 130.79/US$ 9.06 per prescription), thus the strategy of a wider cost-effective rollout of supplementation may be worth consideration. Further investigations of the current total use and possible future benefits of vitamin D supplementation may be warranted.