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Community Pharmacy and Its Contribution to Public Health

Community Pharmacy and Its Contribution to Public Health. Andrew Radley Consultant in Public Health (Pharmacy). What community pharmacy does. How community pharmacy can help. How we currently use community pharmacy. What we may need in the future?. What community pharmacy does.

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Community Pharmacy and Its Contribution to Public Health

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  1. Community Pharmacy and Its Contribution to Public Health Andrew Radley Consultant in Public Health (Pharmacy)

  2. What community pharmacy does How community pharmacy can help How we currently use community pharmacy What we may need in the future?

  3. What community pharmacy does National Community Pharmacy Contract

  4. What community pharmacy does Locally Negotiated Services • Alcohol BI • Counterweight • Frail Elderly • Immunisation • Substance misuse • Palliative care

  5. How we currently use community pharmacy Estimated Patient Numbers Per Pharmacy

  6. How we currently use community pharmacy

  7. How we currently use community pharmacy Smoking Cessation Amongst Pregnant Smokers ISD 2012

  8. Close Proximity of Smokers Attempting to Quit

  9. What have we learnt about effective behaviour change? • Social marketing • Modelling behaviour – friendship / kinship effects • Access and diversity of presentation • Health literacy • Peer communication

  10. Community Pharmacy as Partners • Considerations • Focus on medicines • Financial imperative • Pharmacy chains • Communication • Advantages • Proximity to communities • Range of service users • Generic skills in behaviour change • Ability to respond to change

  11. What we may need in the future? Identified health need Brief advice Sign-posting or referral Shared outcomes

  12. Questions?

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