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Outreach Services are Drivers for Clinical Services that can Expand Market Share
This article is the last in an article series attempting to summarise a focus for community pharmacy direction using an outreach Pharmacy-in-the-Home program as a driver of future directions. We have identified two main demographics as being the driving forces – the ageing population and a younger time-poor demographic who have in their charge young…
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Pharmacy in the Home (PIH) – Designing Your Future Direction
This is a project that has finally gained traction with community pharmacy leadership. As a reference exercise, i2P plans to condense its knowledge of PIH projects and deliver this content to readers, spread over a number of articles. The necessity of the project is self evident when you consider age demographics of the Australian population.…
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Pharmacist Prescribing – It’s Time!
Australian pharmacists lag behind their counterparts in other western economies (particularly the UK) in their scope of practice involving independent prescribing. In Scotland, for example, around 40 percent of pharmacists are registered as prescribers. The problem in Australia is a cultural one. Firstly, there has been disharmony within the pharmacy profession through disruption of the…
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Self-Care….A Perfect Fit with Community Pharmacy
The concept of Self-Care as a tangible health tool has been formally recognised by Australian community pharmacy since the 1970’s. It’s original introduction was generated by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) through a set of information fact cards written in a patient-friendly format that formed up as a suitable reference point for pharmacists and trained…
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Next Generation Vaccines Built to Alter Human Genetics
Altering human genetics through vaccination The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched efforts to create a vaccine that would protect people from most flu strains, all at once, with a single shot. Over the years, I’ve written many articles refuting claims that vaccines are safe and effective, but we’ll put all…
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A Sensible Community Pharmacy & GP Collaboration
In a win for commonsense, a professional collaboration between community pharmacists and local GP’s coupled with a simultaneous a solution for a major public health problem, a mutually respectful system has been piloted in the County of Staffordshire in the UK. And patients involved in the pilot study have documented high levels of satisfaction, simply because…
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Marketing Professional Services – Tactics & Strategies
Pharmacists are slowly coming to grips with the provision of professional services and are fleshing out suitable business models very cautiously. In part, this caution arises out of a sense of uncertainty because of the culture change that has to be embraced in converting what was previously an unstructured service (provided free of charge) to…
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The US government colludes in Mass Deaths by Opioids
Get the truth out and spread it The major pipeline for trafficking opioid drugs starts with pharmaceutical manufacturers, who are intentionally distributing opioids far beyond any legitimate need. 2 MILLION OPIOID ADDICTS IN THE US. 300,000 DEATHS SINCE THE YEAR 2000 IN THE US. A significant percentage of this human carnage results from illegal distribution…
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What Underwrites the Phenomenon of Illness Marketing
Illness marketing (as distinct from health promotion) has been evolving for just over 100 years, and it has been a relentless process driven by greed and its co-conspirators, power and money. It has its original roots from within wealthy banking and money-changing families who for centuries, met secretly as an influential group, to devise ways…
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Social Justice Programs – An Opportunity for a Patient Engagement and Health Literacy Expansion
Now that Location Rules have been made more certain through enabling legislation, it provides a level of certainty in respect of investing in services which would provide a community benefit, that in turn, could eventually be funded through government along the already familiar experience of a public/private partnership. i2P has previously expressed the opinion that…