Pharmacists should now consider themselves as health care providers

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Pharmacists should not think of themselves as being "in the business of pharmacy" or the supply of medicines,but as being health care providers,Mahesh Shah,managing director of Nucare,told conference delegates."We need to act as health care providers together with other professionals," he said,"not in a way that we are subservient to another profession,but standing shoulder to shoulder with them." He described pharmacists as the "real alternative" to other health care providers,including GPs and nurses."We have the knowledge,we have the skills and we can do it," he said.