Increasing community pharmacy workloads in England: causes and consequences

Wendy Gidman

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Abstract

To explore English community pharmacists experiences of workload increases. Setting North West of England. Method Ninety-six women and 71 men replied (response rates = 40 and 31%, respectively). Thirty female pharmacists and 29 male pharmacists were interviewed between February 2005 and February 2008.
The study involved semi-structured face-to-face interviews with theoretically sampled respondents. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim and a thematic analysis conducted. Main outcome measures English community
pharmacists’ opinions and experiences. This paper specifically considers the following themes, community pharmacists’ accounts of workload, role expansion, skill mix, management support, coping strategies, perceptions of patient safety, and impact on pharmacists health and wellbeing.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)512-520
Number of pages9
JournalInternational Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Volume33
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2011

Keywords

  • community pharmacists
  • pharmacies
  • pharmacology

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