It would not be unreasonable to suggest that, over the past 20 years or so, hospital pharmacy in the UK has been the most innovative area of pharmacy practice.
Work force
development
It would not be
unreasonable to suggest that, over the past 20 years or so, hospital pharmacy
in the UK has been the most innovative area of phar-macy practice. In large
part this has been possible because of the steps taken to develop the hospital
pharmacy workforce in delivering advances in patient care. Role development and
accreditation, adoption and delegation of authority and skill mix have all been
successfully used within the hospital pharmacy sector. These issues are
recognised in the 2008 Department of Health White Paper Pharmacy in England:
Building on Strengths – Delivering the Future.1
This chapter will
briefly review the recent approaches taken to the devel-opment of the hospital
pharmacy workforce. It will also address a number of factors that will have an
impact on those developments in the future. These factors include:
·
changes in the regulation of the profession
·
health service reform and government policy
·
new approaches to workforce planning
·
continued development of the clinical roles of pharmacy
staff
·
development of advanced and specialist practice.
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