BACKGROUND The United Kingdom has been at the forefront of enhancing pharmacist roles and community pharmacy services, particularly over the past decade. However, patient and public awareness of community pharmacy services has been limited. OBJECTIVE To identify and synthesize the research literature pertaining to patient and public perspectives on: existing community pharmacy services, exten...

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...

OBJECTIVE Mental health-related problems pose a serious issue for primary care, and community pharmacy could make a significant contribution, but there is a dearth of information. METHODS This article reports synthesis of the literature on mental health interventions across a range of pharmacy models, and pharmacy services in contexts beyond mental health. To best inform the design of a commu...

pon successful completion of this article, the pharmacist should be able to: 1. describe the status of literacy in the United States 2. define functional health literacy and its relationship to health outcomes. 3. describe how to assess low health literacy in community pharmacy patients. 4. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through patient counseling. 5. address low ...

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 Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a major role in administering prescription drug benefit programs for health plans and employers. PBMs have often encouraged the use of self-owned mail-order pharmacy services with the promise to plan sponsors of lower prescription drug costs compared with those of the community pharmacy network. Some plan sponsors have requested a higher degree o...

OBJECTIVES To assess the public's attitudes towards the community pharmacist's role in Qatar, to investigate the public's use of community pharmacy, and to determine the public's views of and satisfaction with community pharmacy services currently provided in Qatar. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three community pharmacies in Qatar were randomly selected as study sites. Patients 16 years of age and ov...