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| Patients' experiences of a community pharmacy-led medicines management service | | Author(s) | Paul Bissell, Alison Blenkinsopp, Duncan Short |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 16, no 4, July 2008 |
| Pages | pp 363-369 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Management [care] ; Medical workers ; Attitude ; Patients ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | Medicines management services provided by community pharmacists have been proposed as one means of ensuring that patients receive all the medicines they may benefit from in the English National Health Service (NHS). These services may also offer ways of tackling the historic under-use of community pharmacists' clinical skills and expertise. Medicines management services differ significantly from the dispensing and medicine sales roles traditionally associated with community pharmacy, particularly in relation to the provisions for pharmacists to make recommendations to both patients and doctors about pharmacological treatment and lifestyle management. This paper describes patients' experiences of a medicines management service by community pharmacists for people with coronary heart disease (CHD), delivered in England. It draws on findings from semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with 49 patients recruited from pilot sites delivering the service. Findings suggest that although patients cautiously welcome the opportunity to consult with a pharmacist about their medicines, they have reservations about them making recommendations about treatment, and many still regard the doctor as the health professional "in charge" of their medicines. These findings are discussed in light of developing sociological literature on pharmacy and medicines usage. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080703205 A |
| Classmark | LLD: QA: QT: DP: LF: 3DP |
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