APRIL,Edition # 24, 2001

 

The grants available through the "Third Agreement" money will give the opportunity to fund some properly structured research into different models of pharmacy practice.

One such model that should be examined is one whereby the pharmacist is concentrating effort on a remote town, village or community.

If say 90 per cent of the pharmacists time is spent towards a satellite operation, then it should be possible to benchmark the attitudes and opinions of the townspeople towards medicine at the start, during and finish of the say 12 month period.

Pharmacy needs hard data to show it can benefit people's health.
It (pharmacy) assumes it is doing good.
Why?
Where is the evidence to prove it is doing well.

In other words, if someone else was handing out the medicines (such as an Internet pharmacy) would the peoples health be any worse.

Let us see some controlled studies showing that a group in one town had improved health after the attention of a pharmacist, against the control group (Internet pharmacy).

Now there is money available so why not use it to show/or not show, how good pharmacy is.
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