Role of the palliative care pharmacist: an example from North Derbyshire, UK

摘要

The palliative care pharmacist in North Derbyshire provides a clinical pharmacy service, as defined in our earlier paper (1), to patients receiving specialist palliative care at Ashgate Hospice and at Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital (CNDRH) where the pharmacist is based. In the hospital, the service is provided directly to the out-patient Palliative Care Clinic patients and via support and advice to other generic ward and dispensary-based pharmacists extends indirectly to other patients. It is proposed to extend the role into the community when funding permits.