OBJECTIVES To characterize rural health care and pharmacy recruitment and retention issues explored in Canadian pharmacy strategic guidelines and Canadian Faculties of Pharmacy curricula; compare the availability of pharmacy workforce across Canadian jurisdictions; and identify models for potential collaborations between universities and rural pharmacies in the North. METHODS Review of Canadi...

The Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative is an initiative of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, which connects community pharmacists with patients, physicians, and health plans to improve the quality and reduce the cost of medication use across Wisconsin. In 2012, the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin received a $4.1 million Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicai...

Many private and public health insurance plans increasingly encourage their beneficiaries—either through mandates or incentives—to fill prescriptions for longterm chronic conditions through a mail order pharmacy or at a community-based or mail order specialty pharmacy designated by the pharmacy benefit manager. Approximately 90% of employers as of May 2011 and 25 state acquired immune deficienc...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the uptake of Western Australian (WA) pharmacist vaccination services, the profiles of consumers being vaccinated and the facilitators and challenges experienced by pharmacy staff in the preparation, implementation and delivery of services. DESIGN Mixed-methods methodology with both quantitative and qualitative data through surveys, pharmacy computer records an...

OBJECTIVE To describe two innovative practice models that expand pharmacy services within a nursing facility's transitional care unit (TCU) to meet the needs of patients transitioning to subacute or community care. SETTING TCU in a hospital-based vs. a community-based facility. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION The two TCUs involved in these practices differ in that one is hospital-owned and the other i...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify the organisational and extraorganisational factors associated with existing variation in the volume of services delivered by community pharmacies. DESIGN AND SETTING Linear and ordered logistic regression of linked national data from secondary sources-community pharmacy activity, socioeconomic and health need datasets-and primary data from a questionnai...

OBJECTIVES To: (1) determine the percentage of the population in England that have access to a community pharmacy within 20 min walk; (2) explore any relationship between the walking distance and urbanity; (3) explore any relationship between the walking distance and social deprivation; and (4) explore any interactions between urbanity, social deprivation and community pharmacy access. DESIGN...

BACKGROUND Health promotion is now becoming an integral part of community pharmacy practice worldwide. OBJECTIVES This study was intended to determine the level of involvement of community pharmacists in providing health promotion service and to identify the barriers to the practice. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 48 community pharmacists working in Gondar town, Northwest ...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate the contribution of community pharmacy from NHS 111 referrals out of hours (OOH) for emergency supply repeat medication requests via presentation of service activity, community pharmacist feedback and lean thinking transformation. DESIGN Descriptive service evaluation using routine service activity data over the pilot period; survey of community pharmacists, and serv...