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Originally Posted by confused.com  You know when i talk to pharmacists they sound downbeat about the profession but at uni the teacher practioners they always seem optimistic about the future of pharmacy that its changing and modernising and removal of remote supervising is the way to go forward that we'll get more fulfilling roles by doing more consultations in our own nice little consultation rooms in the pharmacy. That we'll have more time doing medicine management and that is where the profession should be heading. I mean is that just looking at the way the profsn is going, through rose tinted glasses, or would it really be like that? |
We fear change - it's a source of stress and a source of error as we realign our working practices - and we're really paranoid about errors.
If we take on the extended services then we have be able to delegate some of our other roles.
I want the extended roles and I want to delegate, but it's not as easy as me deciding that I trust my dispenser to not dispense anything they are unsure about while I'm in my nice little consultation room with a patient.
My dispenser either has to be accredited in such a way that any pharmacist can similarly trust them or the continuity of the extended service breaks down or a system of remote supervision has to be in place so that someone else can supervise the dispensing process.
Once we accept either of these - we have to ask if the extended services profitable enough to warrant having a pharmacist on the premises at all?
The fear among pharmacists is that the contract is negotiated by contractors, and for a company the bottom line is that pharmacists are expensive.
Change has to come - managing it will be the problem.
Jeff