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Clinical and digital future for pharmacy

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Clinical and digital future for pharmacy

Pharmacy needs to become more efficient if it is to meet the demands made by patients and the healthcare system for clinical expertise, England’s chief pharmacist Dr Keith Ridge told delegates at the 2015 Royal Pharmaceutical Society conference.

“Those who spend taxpayers’ money have to get value for money,” asserted Dr Ridge (pictured), urging the profession to make more of dispensing robots and centralised dispensing systems that enable patients to place click and collect orders or delivery requests for their medicines.

He warned: “Expect much closer inspection of how money is spent. Medicines wastage, medicines overuse, hospital admissions due to medication, poor adherence – this is chaos that has to be sorted out.”

“Clinical pharmacy will and must become standard pharmacy practice,” he continued, saying that making better use of technological breakthroughs would “free up highly trained staff to help patients”.

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