Shared prescribing? A focus group study with community pharmacists

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 308-314

  Campion, Peter ^a   Hilton, Andrea ^a   Irving, Gwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community pharmacy; focus group; general practice; medicines management; pharmaceutical care; prescribing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011495218     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423607000400     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Barbour R.S., Kitzinger J. 1999: Developing focus group research: politics, theory and practice. London: Sage Publications.
2. Bellingham C. 2004: How to offer a medicines use review. Pharmaceutical Journal 273, 602.
3. Brodie D.C. 1967: Drug use control: keystone to pharmaceutical service. Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy 1, 63–65.
4. Department of Health. 2000: Patient Group Directions, Health Service Circular HSC 2000/026. Retrieved 23 August 2006 from http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/01/22/60/04012260.pdf.
5. Department of Health. 2005 a: Choosing health through pharmacy – a programme for pharmaceutical public health 2005–2015. Retrieved 24 May 2006 from http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/10/74/96/04107496.pdf.
6. Department of Health. 2005 b: Supplementary prescribing by nurses, pharmacists, chiropodists/podiatrists, physiotherapists and radiographers within the NHS in England. Retrieved 23 August 2006 from http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/11/00/33/04110033.pdf.
7. Department of Health. 2006: Improving patients’ access to medicines: a guide to implementing nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing within the NHS in England. Retrieved 27 July 2007 from http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4133743.
8. Dewdney, R. 2002: Indicative syllabus for UK pharmacy degree courses, Appendix 2, pp. 13–16. Retrieved 27 July 2007 from http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/pdfs/eddegnewreq.pdf.
9. Dinnie E., Bond C., Watson M. 2004: Community Pharmacists’ attitudes to medicines management: a qualitative study. The International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 12, 217–222.
10. Hawksworth G.M., Corlett A.J., Wright D.J., Crystyn H. 1999: Clinical pharmacy interventions by community pharmacists during the dispensing process. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 47, 695–700.
11. Hepler C.D. 1987: The third wave in pharmaceutical education. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 51, 369–385. 10302396
12. Hepler C.D., Strand L.M. 1990: Opportunities and responsibilities in pharmaceutical care. American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 47, 533–543. 2316538
13. Hughes C.M., McCann S. 2003: Perceived interprofessional barriers between community pharmacists and general practitioners: a qualitative assessment. British Journal of General Practice 53, 600–606. 14601335
14. Morgan D.L. 1997: Focus groups as qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
15. Nathan A. 2006: Pharmacy education in the UK needs an overhaul. The Pharmaceutical Journal 277, 747.
16. Simpson D. 2001: What is medicines management and what is pharmaceutical care? Pharmaceutical Journal 266, 150.
17. Taylor K.M.G., Harding G. 2007: The pharmacy degree: the student experience of professional training. Pharmacy Education 7, 83–88.
18. Wong I.C.K., Campion P., Coulton S., Cross B., Edmondson H., Farrin A., Hill G., Hilton A., Philips Z., Richmond S., Russell I. 2004: Pharmaceutical care for elderly patients shared between community pharmacists and general practitioners: a randomised evaluation. RESPECT (Randomised Evaluation of Shared Prescribing for Elderly people in the Community over Time). BMC Health Service Research 4, 11.
19. Wright D., Loftus M., Christou M., Eggleton A., Norris N. 2006: Healthcare professional education and training: how does pharmacy in Great Britain compare? London: Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.