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Retail Health Clinic Study – Many Positives
In the US, retail health clinics are now a permanent part of the health care landscape with the potential to become a much more powerful enabler of a “culture of health,” according to a recent report by Manatt Health, the health care division of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. This perspective will be of interest to…
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Evidence Based Design Will Encourage Patient Outcomes
A pharmacy environment is a complex one of patients, customers, products and services. It is a little understood environment because evidence surrounding its structure and presentation is sparse. All the elements require integration. It’s one thing to spruce up a space aesthetically, but it’s equally important to address the underlying conditions to support the experience…
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I’ve been thinking about minding the gap, looking right, and a potential blindspot in the medication-use process.
There is little pedestrian about being a pedestrian in the UK. It pays to heed the painted warnings underfoot between the platforms and trains throughout the color-coded labyrinth of the famed Underground—“MIND THE GAP.” It is paramount, however, to heed the painted curbs at nearly every intersection—“LOOK RIGHT.” Perhaps you’ve had your close call with…
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New Paradigm Pharmacy Design
Pharmacy Workplaces are fairly sterile places to work in as regards to interaction with co-workers and fulfilment for patients and customers. Design improvement is one of the last items generally considered when setting up a pharmacy because there are many models to view and adapt that are already developed, and can be readily copied. But…
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Embrace and Plan for the Future of 3D Drug Printing
In 3D-printing, pharmacists have a tool that if understood and used appropriately, can elevate their ability to perform research and provide service levels not even previously envisaged. i2P often claims that “it lives in the future to reflect a pathway back to its present readers”. Believe me, this claim refers to the topics contained within…
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A great sense of humor makes great sense
We’ve all heard that “laughter is the best medicine.” It makes people happy and links us together. Humor and laughter strengthen our immune system, boost our energy by destroying boredom and keep stress at bay. Humor is equally beneficial at work, as it increases creativity, enhances communications, builds morale and minimizes workplace conflicts and tension.…
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Your Future Pharmacy – there are choices
Pharmacies have always existed in different formats to give customer or patient choices. Physical size has been one of these determinants, but does size really matter? Pharmacy, as an industry has relied on the PBS as being the centre of its universe. In so doing, pharmacists have skewed pharmacy practice to becoming overwhelmingly geared towards…
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So you want to collaborate? – a US experience
Collaboration between doctors and pharmacists is not a new thought, and when performed correctly and ethically, it works well for both sides. But mostly this is an exception, it only seems to work if the pharmacist takes up the role of being a second class citizen with floor-mat privileges. It is simply a power play…
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Basic Patient Engagement
The term “Patient Engagement” is appearing in pharmacy media at an increasing rate. But what is meant by this term and is there more than one form of patient engagement? The quick answer is that the term is not new, but has been expanded to include patient sharing between various health professions. Patient engagement has…
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Pharmacy Inertia is Crippling Development – Build Clinical Spaces and Move into your Local Area Market Plan
I was standing at the reception counter at my local GP waiting to make an appointment for my next visit. It was a hive of activity with conversations animatedly occurring all around me. It was obviously going to be a bit of a wait before I got my turn and I started to observe more…