Approximately half of all Americans do not take their medication as prescribed by their doctor. This medication non-adherence causes an estimated 125,000 additional deaths and as much as $300 billion a […]
Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve […]
Much has been learned in the process of developing the drone-delivery scheme. Routine deliveries of medications have been made every 90 days to project patients for 18 months […]
In this pilot project, deliveries of medicines were made to individuals in single-family homes; the medicines were packaged in purpose-designed boxes and the recipients had to agree to […]
The drone delivery service had to operate within a number of ‘guard-rails’ including restrictions on the types of medicines that could be carried and the suitability of destinations. […]
Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve […]
Innovative clinical pharmacy services have been developed in Northern Ireland that both improve patient care and save money. In this series of short videos Professor Cathy Harrison (Chief […]
Clinical pharmacy is not standing still in Northern Ireland and plans are in place for the next stages of development. Professor Cathy Harrison, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at the […]
Several key elements supported the spectacular developments in pharmacy services in Northern Ireland and one of the results was a £200 million saving over an eight-year period, according […]
Clinical pharmacy services in Northern Ireland are well-developed and delivered by a skilled and growing workforce, about 30% of which are now independent prescribers, according to Professor Cathy […]
As the keynote speaker at the 2024 ESCP symposium in Krakow, Poland, Professor Cathy Harrison (Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at the Department of Health in Northern Ireland) described how […]
Kieron Power is Principal Pharmacist for Thrombosis and Anticoagulation in Swansea Bay University Health Board in South Wales. He has played a leading role in the development of […]
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