BACKGROUND Traditionally, pharmacy technicians have worked alongside pharmacists in community and hospital pharmacy. Changes within pharmacy provide opportunity for role expansion and with no apparent career pathway, there is a need to define the current pharmacy technician role and role in medicines optimisation. AIM To capture the current roles of pharmacy technicians and identify how their...

BACKGROUND This article describes the development of a virtual glaucoma clinic, whereby technicians collect information for remote review by a consultant specialist. DESIGN AND METHODS This was a hospital-based service evaluation study. Patients suitable for the stable monitoring service (SMS) were low-risk patients with "suspect", "early"-to-"moderate" glaucoma who were deemed stable by thei...

Background Ethiopia has implemented the Integrated Pharmaceutical Logistics System (IPLS) since 2009, under the Pharmaceutical Funds and Supplies Agency (PFSA). Although more than 5,000 healthcare workers have been trained on IPLS, staff attrition and expanding service delivery has required ongoing training. To address this, partners provide mainly in-service training (IST); although, recently,...

Of the 231 laboratories carrying out sputum cytology in England and Wales, information on the staffing, laboratory procedures, workload, records, and results for the year 1971 was obtained from 228 (98.7%) by means of a questionnaire, which was completed in 1973 in 81% of the laboratories and at the end of 1972 in the remainder. At the time the questionnaire was completed, the number of laborat...

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is an extension of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with earliest, latest, and service times for customers. The VRPTW routes a set of vehicles to service customers having earliest, latest service times. The objective of the problem is to minimize the number of vehicles and the distance travelled to service the customers. The constraints of ...

Telecommunication networks frequently face technological advancements and need to upgrade their infrastructure. Adapting legacy the latest technology requires synchronized technicians responsible for migrating equipment. The goal of network migration problem is find an optimal plan this process. This a defining step in customer acquisition telecommunications service suppliers, its outcome direc...

Dental personnel, other than dentists, must be trained to place sealants to provide this much needed service cost-effectively to the numbers of children who require it. A program to train Air Force dental technicians (equivalent to dental assistants) to place sealants with assistance using the Vac-Ejector Moisture Control System (Whaledent International, New York, NY) for isolation was reported...

the location-routing problem is a relatively new branch of logistics system. its objective is to determine a suitable location for constructing distribution warehouses and proper transportation routing from warehouse to the customer. in this study, the location-routing problem is investigated with considering fuzzy servicing time window for each customer. another important issue in this regard ...