Welcome to this week’s edition of Information to Pharmacists (i2P) E-Magazine.
I had some time over the holiday period to do a bit of housekeeping, some of which was to review some slideshows that I had wanted to read, but just hadn’t gotten around to it.
They began to stimulate my thoughts so I decided to share them with readers.

Each discusses a different topic and they are all interesting.
The material is basically stuff you might use for the “macro” processes in your business/practice.
It is certainly directional and valuable for those pharmacists wishing to break the shackles holding them back in personal and business development.

So here is a shorter i2P than usual but carrying some quite dense information presented in an interesting format.
One of the presentations compares slideshows with slidedocs.
I hadn’t really thought too much about these formats, but as I ploughed through that particular slideshow I found myself relating slidedocs to patient information and how a pharmacist specialty could be built around that process.
Better educated and informed patients will mean better outcomes.
It is also work that would help rebuild the pharmacist complement in a pharmacy and not having them viewed as a “bottom line” cost.
There is plenty that needs improving in pharmacy practice – it just needs to be encouraged and rewarded.
Have a happy and prosperous new year in 2015 and make sure you make clinical service development your primary objective.
i2P will ensure you have the right information.

Neil Johnston
Monday, December 29,2014