pharmacy in diff decades Flashcards
(10 cards)
Pharmacy before the 1960’s
- role
The role of the pharmacist was to dispense and/or manufacture medicines
Pharmacy before the 1960’s
- main focus
Product to Patient
when was the shift for hospital pharmacists
1960s-1970s
what was the shift
From dispensary to the ward for the safe and timely supply of medicines in response to medical and nursing demands
how did clinical pharmacy develop
- Increasing range and complexity of medicines
- Increasing awareness of medication errors
- Introduction of ward- based prescription charts
- Safe and timely supply of medicines in response to medical and nursing demands
what happened in between 1970’s and 1980’s for pharmacy as a whole
- Growth in pharmacy services
- Pharmacist role becomes more proactive
- Pharmacists interact more with patients
- Pharmacists part of the decision making processes alongside other healthcare professionals
Clinical Pharmacy consists of what
- Contributing to prescribing decisions
- Monitoring and modifying drug therapy
- Counselling patients
- Clinical drug trials
- Reducing errors and patient safety
- Recognition of the benefits of the role of pharmacists in cost effective prescribing – getting value for money for the NHS
- Pharmacists specialising in particular therapeutic areas
what was the trigger for development of clinical pharmacy
Patient safety
However it was mainly driven by measuring what?
pharmacists clinical interventions, proving an ability to promote cost-effective medicines use in hospitals
Evaluation of pharmacist interventions is centred around what?
the “Drug Use Process (DUP) Indicators”
